I have been talking to Alberto Covarrubias, author of Virtual-E, VIDE and other cool stuff. Thanks to the FlashBoy, he is back to the scene and plans to release an updated version of his development tool “Virtual-Environment” aka VIDE.

Ideas for now are:
* Better compiler integration (to act as gccVB frontend)
* FlashBoy loader integration
* Sound editor(!)

In this thread, we would like to gather some feedback from developers, and collect ideas for new features and improvements. 🙂

[vbman]

DogP wrote:
I’d like an adjustable threshold for the map constructor… basically if I input a BMP w/ 4 colors, I’d like those 4 colors to be black through bright red (either automatically or manually selecting the threshold), instead of having to adjust the colors in the original BMP until it detects the 4 colors like I want.

I’ll try to think of other stuff, but that’s one I’ve run into a few times.

DogP

What are the four colors it will detect?

• This reply was modified 15 years, 4 months ago by vbman.

fobbio wrote:

What are the four colors it will detect?

As can be seen from the attached sample, VIDE takes the average greyscale value of a color (i.e. red + green + blue / 3) and performs a simple threshold on it as follows:

0 -> 63 = Black
64 -> 127 = Dark Red
128 -> 191 = Medium Red
192 -> 255 = Bright Red

I usually draw in grey and use the following four shades:

0 (or sometimes a little brighter) = Black
85 = Dark Red
170 = Medium Red
255 = Bright Red

If you want to draw in red and quickly get greyscale for import into VIDE, just do a “Convert to Grey” function (you can also reduce the saturation to 0) and then do a “Histogram stretch”. These two operations can be undone after exporting the image.

I hope that helps!

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