
author=willey@gnn.com

First of all, make a seperate dir for editart 
 Next use kextract (kextract duke3d.grp tiles0??.art to get all the
art files out of the GRP file.(you should get tiles000-014) Move these
to your editart dir if you are using one.

Now when you start editart you can hit 'v' like in build and pick an 
'art' to edit.
Or use pgup/dn in main screen for one at a time.

***If you want to make a new 'art' hit 'g' for goto and enter 4070(it 
doesn't have to be this number, just past the duke3d art and near the
end of the 4096 barrier), this will take you past all of the art in
duke3d, into blank area. If you are going to draw from scratch(good
luck) hit 's' and enter the size in pixels(ie 64 enter 32 enter). Now
you have a empty square in transparent color(pink). You can floodfil
the box with the 'f' key. Choose your colors from the palette at the
bottom right with the 'shift+arrows' keys.(you may have to hit 't' for
trail on/off 1st?).

*** You can also import a pcx file once you have reached this blank 
space. BTW it actually says blank at the bottom. Just goto 4066 or 
whatever and hit 'u' then pick your pcx file. I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO
DO THIS EXCEPT WITH FILES EXPORTED FROM EDITART.(ie copying art from
one place and editing it). You hit F12 with art on the screen to
export.

I don't know a straight forward way to save your work. You can hit 
'pageup/dwn' and it will ask you to save tile. If you hit 'esc' it
will also ask you.

*** This is the good part** When you say yes to save, you'll notice
that it say's updating tiles015.art. This did not come out of Duke3d.
Its new stuff. As long as you stay near the end of the 4096 barrier
and put your art there,it will be in tiles015. You can make levels
using your art and as long as you send the tiles015.art file with the
map file, people can play it and see your art.

Like I said I haven't been able to import any pcx files. I tried a few

different paint type programs to edit the exported art from the
tiles.x files. It seem that the pixels/inch or palette is getting
screwed up.If anyone knows how to handle these files, please let me
know.

Hope this gets you started.



