Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26957768-20160812221817/@comment-26971439-20160822221620

BunsenH wrote: My Muppets Show (MMS above) was taken down, not MSM.

The game's files include a bunch of images and sounds. For each monster, there's at least one big picture file which has all of the pieces that are combined to draw the monster as it moves. For example, the file for the Mammott has the left and right feet, both flat on the ground and slightly raised; pieces for its legs; two pieces for each arm, and one for each shoulder; ten different versions of its mouth; lots of pieces for its eyes so they can move slightly; fingers, and a few more bits. It's rather like a paper doll drawn in pieces and stuck together with clips that let the pieces move relative to each other.

It's possible to take that file and recolour it, then put the altered version back for the game to use. What you end up seeing when you play the game is your special version.

The game also has data files which tell it how to assemble all of those pieces, not to mention just where the pieces are on that big picture file. So if you wanted to put a completely different monster into the game, you would need to change those data files too.

I know how to work with the recoloured picture file in the Windows version of the game, but I don't know how to do the more complicated stuff. yup. i myself only understand very little ais ive looked at the data files, it seems to tell them to crop the certain coordinates, then rotate and move around in order for the monster to move properly. you would need to be pretty adnanced to be able to recode the animation. one number off and it could destroy the monster. however if you want to completly redesign the monster, you could find the crop coordiantes, or whatever they are reffered to, and replace what is withen that with your own thing. however it might take some testing to make sure it ligns up right, since you need to keep in mind doing this would make it be a new monster with the same animation. in short, you need to be very dedicated to make a monster have a new animation.