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Hi all,

I was trying to override the artwork so I didn't have to compile every time I made a change, but -override_artwork didn't seem to be working.

So I analyzed the code and what it's looking for is:

artwork/<name>/<name>.lay

So for example:

-override_artwork lchicken

will look in artwork/lchicken/lchicken.lay

(or even a zipfile at artwork/lchicken.zip with lchicken.lay inside.)

The command line options page doesn't give much info on the subject.


Now I can make changes and see them immediately on launching mame. Much faster than compiling.

And adding a spring effect with f = -kx for a little bounce. If you change the constants the bouncing can get really wild.

Thanks!

Yes, I was planning on removing the square, possibly just making it invisible. It seems that svgs "auto-size" themselves to the bounding box so I need a box around it, but it shouldn't be hard to set the alpha to zero. Once I do that, you should just see the chicken. The other strategy would be to put a same color box underneath so you wouldn't see the bottom edge moving.

I also added a rotational spring so that it wiggles a bit rotationally.

Playing around with inkscape