Do you guys recomend darren's resizer tool

liamnelsonliamnelson Member Posts: 26
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Hey guys.

I'm about to buy the resize tool, to make my game for ipad quicker. Just wanted to know if you guys recommend it. Does it really save you that much time? Do the images look pixeleated or bad quality when resized?

Thank you

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  • DrGlickertDrGlickert Member Posts: 1,135
    I don't have it. But I've not heard one bad thing about it.

    I'd do a search in the marketplace for it and I'm sure users have purchased it and posted "reviews" of it in there.

    Good luck!
  • CaptFinnCaptFinn Member Posts: 1,828
    Maybe Darren or a u few users should make a few example videos of what a iphone to ipad or vice versa, looks like. or iphone to mac store.
  • liamnelsonliamnelson Member Posts: 26
    Jeffnichols said:
    Maybe Darren or a u few users should make a few example videos of what a iphone to ipad or vice versa, looks like. or iphone to mac store.

    yea that would be cool
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    I used it to convert zombie heads, an iPhone matching game, to zombie heads hd, for the iPad.

    It sVed me an incredible amount of time and was worth every penny.

    That being said, you only should buy it if your iPhone / iPad game has been successful and you want to capture another market. If you're only making a fe dollars a week, it will take a long time to recoup your costs

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  • IsabelleKIsabelleK Member, Sous Chef Posts: 2,807
    Yes, Yes, YES!!! :) The best GS tool ever! It saved me at least one month of work. All of my graphics were much bigger in original, so I don't have any pixeleated look.

    I'll leave you with this: I made iPhone version in about 2-3 months (only in GS). With GS Resizer Tool I made iPad version in 5 hours (I had to change and fix a few things).
  • UtopianGamesUtopianGames Member Posts: 5,692
    Yeah its my favourite tool too.

    There's a couple of videos on deepblue showing you how fast it is to make another version of your game.

    We've had emails from customers telling us it's saved them up to 3 months work!

    Darren.
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    Its definitely worth every penny, for me, even if i just used it once, it saves that much time it would be worth it.
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  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member Posts: 2,033
    It's great.
    Saves A LOT of work and time when converting something.

    That being said, don't expect to not do any work at all, but like I say. Rather then 2 weeks work, I converted a game in around 2 hours.
  • SteverdSteverd Member Posts: 194
    But how about the graphics that get up sized from an iPhone to the iPad.
    Are they just stretched, like what you can do in Photoshop?

    Should you just start with a higher resolution sprite/graphics just incase you plan to use this tool and convert the game to an iPad?

    Steve
  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member Posts: 2,033
    If you have made your iphone game with retina designed graphics, they look pretty good when the objects are re-sized to ipad size.

    If not.. you will have to go through and sort out the graphics.
  • old_kipperold_kipper Member Posts: 1,420
    Yes it is almost perfect. Now if in an update it could massage my neck and make coffee... Just in the hours saved it would be worth it, and it save so many headaches.

    tip. If are going down from ipad to iphone and your in game graphics are too large in memory, check the display size in the actor, double clicking on the graphics in your game file, and if you have them auto open in photoshop, set up a photoshop action to size the original files to the new display size, then with one click you should be able to resize to the new sprite size, and save them back into the file. Works a treat for me.

    cheers kipper
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    It very useful but don't expect an instant perfectly running game. it will save tones of time but you will still have to fix any attributes or calculations you have set. it mostly resizes the actors in the scene and scales their placement out so it looks about the same on the other devices. I've used it a lot and it saves tons of time just do buy it thinking its an instant thing for your entire game.
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  • bluebyu25bluebyu25 Member Posts: 500
    Just curious as to what you would need to change yourself? Why would changing it to ipad require you to mess with attributes and such? What would change about them in the conversion that needs tweaking?
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