[EO 1.2]Differently Sized PicScreen

[Terraun]

Hey everyone. This is a really simple edit, I know, but I thought it might be helpful to some newer users. First for anyone that doesn't know, the PicScreen is the screen the game is played on. This tutorial is how to change the size of it.

–Client Side--

1) Open your source and open frmMain.

2) Under your bank and trade boxes, there's your PicScreen. Click your PicScreen and go to it's attributes. Find the height and width of the PicScreen. Change these to your likings. ***I have custom values, so my width and height are going to be different than yours***


3) After you change these, divide your new values by 32, then subtract the outcome by 1\.

4) Now after you have these new values, here's where the code comes in.

5)

Find:
```
Public Const MAX_MAPX As Byte = 14
```
Replace the 11 with your value for width.

Find:
```
Public Const MAX_MAPY As Byte = 11
```
Replace the 14 with your height value.

6) Compile and you're done! You have to delete your maps after you compile. If not you'll get a weird buggy movement until you do.

Thanks to Robin for teaching how to do this.

[Toranos]

Thanks for this, but isn't it..
Public Const MAX_**MAPX** As Byte = **14**
Public Const MAX_**MAPY** As Byte = **11**

No big deal though. Quite Helpful :)

[chuchoide]

He got that wrong, but as you said. Useful. Dont think I use though, i have 30+ maps and I dont want to delete :)

Although nice tut.

[sirsk8aton]

I tried it out but when I get into game, it gives me negative coords and I can't walk through them.

[Robin]

@sirsk8aton:

> I tried it out but when I get into game, it gives me negative coords and I can't walk through them.

Did you delete your maps?

[sirsk8aton]

Well at first, no, but then I deleted them all and still have the same problem.

[Robin]

@sirsk8aton:

> Well at first, no, but then I deleted them all and still have the same problem.

Go back to your backed up source code and re-do the tutorial.

[sirsk8aton]

Redid it, same thing keeps happening :S The negative coords go up to how many tiles I added. I can't place any graphics on them either.

[Robin]

@sirsk8aton:

> Redid it, same thing keeps happening :S The negative coords go up to how many tiles I added. I can't place any graphics on them either.

Give me your picScreen width and height and your MaxMapX and MaxMapY.

[sirsk8aton]

PicScreen = 640x480
Max_MapX = 19
Max_MapY = 14

[Robin]

@sirsk8aton:

> PicScreen = 640x480
> Max_MapX = 19
> Max_MapY = 14

And you change the MaxMap values both in the server and client? And you did delete the maps in both server and client?

[sirsk8aton]

Doh! I forgot to edit the server. Sorry, I'm a noob when it comes to source editing.

Well look at that it works  :rolleyes: Thanks for the help!

[Warconn]

ok, so i increased my picscreen size to 640X800\. Works great except the blitted text, like the map name or player name is greatly decreases almost to unreadable size, and the target works on and off… Sometimes working and sometimes not... Is anyone else having this problem??

[Robin]

@Warconn:

> ok, so I increased my picscreen size to 640X800\. Works great except the blitted text, like the map name or player name is greatly decreases almost to unreadable size, and the target works on and off… Sometimes working and sometimes not... Is anyone else having this problem??

You didn't follow the tutorial properly.

[Warconn]

hmm well i relooked everything over, and re went through the tutorial, and i am doing everything as it says. I changed the constants server-side aswell…  I looked at the map editor, and it is registering my mouse 2 tiles below where it really is(if that makes sense).  All of the text is still very small.

Not to sure where to go from here...

[Robin]

@Warconn:

> hmm well I relooked everything over, and re went through the tutorial, and I am doing everything as it says. I changed the constants server-side aswell…  I looked at the map editor, and it is registering my mouse 2 tiles below where it really is(if that makes sense).  All of the text is still very small.
>
> Not to sure where to go from here...

Delete it and start again.

[Guest]

Worked great. Now how do I move the Admin panel over? It's sticking in my map and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to appear more to the right.
Thanks

[EDIT] Figured it out.

Find picAdmin.left = xxx and delete this line of code. Then place your admin panel wherever you want it to pop up. (Thanks jcsnider)

[Warconn]

@Robin:

> Delete it and start again.

Thanks for the help, i found the solutions. If you look at the picScreen ScaleHeight/ScaleWidth, i set them to the same as my actual height and width. Not sure what they are used for, but it works great now… Dunno how they got changed in the first place though??

[canido]

I have problems with Block in  with map editor

```
Height = 512
Width = 928
Public Const MAX_MAPX As Byte = 29
Public Const MAX_MAPY As Byte = 16

```
I have deleted  folder Maps

[aaaron]

Did you delete the server and client maps?

[canido]

yes, I generate the exe in vb6??

[quintensky]

thank you it works PER-FECT

[erkro1]

**Fixed**

[Ultrasnofire]

how could i make it that when you click maximize that the max_mapx and max_mapy change? (i already have it so the screen changes size when you maximize and minimize)

[eusouojiin]

When I try change the size, show a run-time error 5, and show the line "Call Surface.BltToDC(picBox.hDC, sRECT, dRECT)", in modDirectDraw7\. I did the tutorial 3 times, but always got this error.