Post by Elder God of Salt on Feb 26, 2018 16:23:38 GMT
Zuma Path Editing: Basics
Hello, you have chosen the path of tediousness (and trial+error)
What you need:
- A hex editor. I recommend HxD because you can add/remove.
- Zuma, obviously
- Basic skills
Okay! Time to start.
Loading up Spiral of Doom's file, scroll past the junk until you see these:
There's some d e d e ÿe de thing going on! Basically we have this:
The dots are 00 hex values, not actual dots (2E).
You see there are mostly 3 blanks [dots in HxD], and sometimes 2.
That's because two-charactered points (i think, but points determine where the tangents go to) have a prefix, occupying it:, so:
Editing some characters...
It does nothing, just like if we didn't touch anything (assuming you opened Spiral of Doom and did this)
Now, using some Replace tool magic, we get this:
Great! We modified a path to do some weird rolling things!
Editing Codex of Mixtec to do some horizontal madness, we get this:
Great!
Feel free to post more tutorials such as path shortening. Let's do this before Zuma Path Editor releases!
click for 100% new custom dat file no copy paste
click le spoiler
Hello, you have chosen the path of tediousness (and trial+error)
What you need:
- A hex editor. I recommend HxD because you can add/remove.
- Zuma, obviously
- Basic skills
Okay! Time to start.
Loading up Spiral of Doom's file, scroll past the junk until you see these:
There's some d e d e ÿe de thing going on! Basically we have this:
e...d..ÿeThe dots are 00 hex values, not actual dots (2E).
You see there are mostly 3 blanks [dots in HxD], and sometimes 2.
That's because two-charactered points (i think, but points determine where the tangents go to) have a prefix, occupying it:, so:
Editing some characters...
It does nothing, just like if we didn't touch anything (assuming you opened Spiral of Doom and did this)
Now, using some Replace tool magic, we get this:
Great! We modified a path to do some weird rolling things!
Editing Codex of Mixtec to do some horizontal madness, we get this:
Great!
Feel free to post more tutorials such as path shortening. Let's do this before Zuma Path Editor releases!
click for 100% new custom dat file no copy paste
click le spoiler
HAH HAH HAH YOU GOT THE PRANK'D! 
*insert evil laugh* How nice you fell on my trap. And if you did determine it IS a trap in the first place...congratulations.
<NaturalCubicSpline isClosed="false" granularity="48">
<Point x="527" y="-13"/>
<Point x="406" y="155"/>
<Point x="315" y="155"/>
<Point x="256" y="166"/>
<Point x="191" y="217"/>
<Point x="222" y="274"/>
<Point x="322" y="295"/>
<Point x="401" y="243"/>
<Point x="539" y="274"/>
<Point x="523" y="368"/>
<Point x="398" y="393"/>
<Point x="160" y="370"/>
<Point x="80" y="308"/>
<Point x="86" y="222"/>
</NaturalCubicSpline>
No, but seriously. Putting the code in a .dat file will never work.*insert evil laugh* How nice you fell on my trap. And if you did determine it IS a trap in the first place...congratulations.
