Forums » Code » Converting Photos into Impact Levels Revisited

Well, it's a year later, and I finally got around to writing up how we converted photos to impact levels! With code samples and everything!

http://kirbysayshi.com/2012/09/28/team-drainvalve-gamehackday-photos-become-impactjs-levels.html

There were two phases:

1) dividing the photo into tiles and analyzing the pixels in each tile to determine if the majority of it was "solid" or not
2) Getting impact to load a dynamically generated level

I go into much greater detail in the post itself, but I'll try to keep an eye on this thread for questions.

Thanks for posting this. Did you ever give it another shot like the video mentioned?

@KirbySaysHi thanks for this. Great proof of concept for an idea I too had had weeks ago but never got around to doing. Respect.

@quidmonkey, No, I didn't. After the hack, we both just kind of lost interest, and while it's a fun thing to play around with... I'm not sure how much of a full game is there. But that doesn't mean other people can't try! I worry that once depth was attempted to be added, the simple technique would fall apart and get very complicated.

@alexandre, I hope you go somewhere with that idea!