Puzzle CREATORS VERSION ONLY!
Derive and make your own puzzles!
Up to 6 players support!

*** CREATE YOUR OWN PUZZLES ***
To make your own puzzles, just create puzzle.txt file.
Put there section names (puzzle category name) and links to pictures.
Attach puzzle.txt file and pictures to Assets.
If you have any questions or problems, just send me a message.
* There must be at least one category name *
* Category name must have up to 10 chars *
* Category name must be beetwen [ and ] chars *
* Every picture link must be in new line *
* Links can be only local *
* JPG and PNG pictures are supported *
* Pictures other then 320 x 240 will be ignored *
* Dead links will be ignored *

*** example of puzzle.txt file ***
[MyPuzzles]
FirstPictureInAssets320x240.jpg
SecondPictureInAssets320x240.jpg

* TRY IT *





*** How To Make Own Puzzles - Step By Step Tutorial ***
1 - Select pictures you want to put in your puzzles. I suggest the ones which have many details, colors and not much repetitive background. Otherwise, they will be more difficult and probably annoying.
2 - If we have group of pictures, we need to resample them to 320x240. Probably you will need to cut some not important background in some of them.
3 - I suggest to save pictures in JPG with 80% quality format, but dont use sharpen effects on them, because they will not look good at this compression level. One picture will have from 20 to 30 kB of size. 64 pictures in fantasy example have over 1 MB size and Pictures in Nature example have over 1.5 MB. As far as I know, unused pictures in assets are not buffering by the chat. Everything is loading on the fly by puzzle application.
[fantasy]
fantasy1.jpg
fantasy2.jpg
5 - You can make more sections if you want:
[fantasy]
fantasy1.jpg
fantasy2.jpg
[gothic]
gothic1.jpg
gothic2.jpg
6 - Save your configuration file as puzzle.txt
7 - Click "Derive from product" on bottom of the page. In Creator, on top you will have something like "PID: N/A Parent PID: 10370444" and two icons. CLick second icon which looks like folder with right arrow.
8 - New window will be open. Directly copy puzzle.txt and pictures there. If you are using windows XP, watch out for Thumbs.db hidden file when you have picture thumbnails preview on. It can take several hundreds of additional kB size. To be sure and remove them, select Search, click "All files and folders", write "thumb" in text box, check "Search hidden files" and click Search button. If any of Thumbs.db will appear on the list, just delete them.
4 - Open notepad and put the section name (more then 10 letters will be ignored) and filenames of the pictures, like this:
9 - Back to your Creator. Click "Apply Changes" and "Save".
10 - Now sit on the chair. Puzzle application should appear. Click "start" and later "next" button, to check all your pictures. If everything looks fine, you can try to change furniture textures if you want, and then upload your product! =)

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