What's up, RMers?

[DerVVulfman]

Well, I'm working on the HELP FILE of my Layered Spritesheet Tool. That is to say, I am fleshing it out and dividing the help file into at least three parts: Just Starting, The User's Corner, and the Resource Developer's Guide.

The User's Corner is much the same as the original help file's content... same chapters and much the same information. However, I felt that it needed to be expanded. There's that, and that it will have support for up-to fifty layers of graphics.

The Resource Developer's Guide will cover the structure of a Resource Pack folder. It will not just be talking about the subfolders within and how they are named, but the way multi-layered resources are rendered atop one another, and the inclusion of new layers. And it will discuss the revised Style.Ini file that informs the Layered Spritesheet tool the dimensions of every image within a resource, the number of resources, and the new primary ID and filename entries which can quickly kickstart use.

That's to say... the old tool design had you run a few routines to begin use with any resource. The new design reads data from the style and says... "GO FOR IT!" the moment its loaded.

And lastly, the first section of the Help File will be the Just Starting section. Its gonna relay that the tool does nothing without a resource pack because you can't generate anything without the resources! But more than that, it will give a 'simplified' step-by-step on where your resource packs go (its the tool's root folder!!!), how to select a style (you click the style button and select it from the menu!!!), and then show you how to set things up and choose your resources.

It'll first cover what you do... and then WHY you do it.

But its gonna take a while.