Playing Online
First of all
The very first thing you should do is READ THE RULES!!!
How to play online
Playing online works exactly like playing offline, except that you can see other players, up- or download levels and replays, and see various stats while playing. In order to use the online features, there are a lot of new keys for you to configure.
When you first time enter the game, there might be a battle running. Simply download the level, go to the external levels through the menu and find the level, that is being played.
Default key mapping in Elma Online
Elma Online uses the F1-F12 keys for most of its functionality. In addition, the F-keys can be combined with two option keys (OPT2 and OPT3, which are left SHIFT and left CTRL by default) for more functions. You can set the option keys to left or right SHIFT, left or right CTRL, or ALT in eolconf.
Default key mapping:
F1 = Show/hide other players
OPT2 + F1 = Show/hide yourself from others
OPT3 + F1 = Show help (these key bindings and other commands)
ENTER+ F1 = Free camera (Observe without entering the level). You can move your camera using the arrow keys and go faster by holding shift while moving.
F2 = Observe next player (When chatting, write PM to next player in list)
OPT2 + F2 = Observe previous player (When chatting, write PM to previous player in list)
OPT3 + F2 = Cancel observing (When chatting, cancel PM)
F3 = Show battle queue
OPT2 + F3 = Lock/unlock new levels
OPT3 + F3 = -
F4 = Download battle level
OPT2 + F4 = -
OPT3 + F4 = Download any level (type level filename without the .lev extension)
F5 = Show players online
OPT2 + F5 = Show best times in current level
OPT3 + F5 = Show best multiplayer times in current level
F6 = Show battle standings/results
OPT2 + F6 = -
OPT3 + F6 = Show 24h tt standings/results
F7 = Show finished times
OPT2 + F7 = Show finished multi times
OPT3 + F7 = Clear finished times
F8 = Send/accept multiplayer invitation
OPT2 + F8 = Cancel all multiplayer invitations
OPT3 + F8 = Show/hide last apple time
F9 = Type chat line (press up/down or pageup/pagedown to scroll)
OPT2 + F9 = Show/hide chat
OPT3 + F9 = Toggle team chat mode on/off. When on, F9 works as team chat.
F10 = Show/hide battle status line
OPT2 + F10 = Show/hide leader and your position
OPT3 + F10 = Show/hide speedometer
F11 = Download winning replay of last battle
OPT2 + F11 = -
OPT3 + F11 = Show/hide onewheel status
F12 = (Re)connect to server
OPT2 + F12 = Disconnect from server
OPT3 + F12 = Refresh palette
How to make your own shirt (BMP)
Shirt tutorial video by iCS (For photoshop)
The following is a walkthrough on how to make a shirt picture. If you know what you are doing you can of course do it any way you want.
- Open Microsoft Paint
- Open a BMP
- Either: Load an existing working BMP (that already has the right colors in the game, e.g. milagros.bmp)
- Or: Create a new one with the dimensions 149 x 101 pixels
- Rotate 90° counter-clockwise, if you want it to be easier to see what the shirt will look like in the game
- Make the background
- Note that all pixels with the same color as the top left corner pixel will be transparent
- It may be any shape, no need to use the usual shape of the shirt
- Put something unique on it: letter, image, logo, etc
- Customize
- It is useful to use advanced programs like Adobe Photoshop for better results
- You can also use special fonts from pages like dafont.com
- Rotate 90° clockwise if you rotated it before
- Correct your BMP
- If you created or edited your shirt with another program, you might have wrong palette. Then, follow these steps:
- Copy your BMP
- Open working BMP
- Paste there
- There are mainly two different LGRs used as the default one (the original default.lgr and highq.lgr) and it's a good idea to have a look at the shirt with both LGRs as they have a different color palette.
- Save as type "256 Color Bitmap (*.bmp,*.dib)"
- Use the exact same name as on Elma Online (case sensitive, no accents or special symbols)
- Put it in your bmp folder in EOL directory, when you play it will be uploaded to site automatically.
- Advertise to everybody on Elma Online, on forums, #battle (mIRC) and anywhere else you want
Other players' shirts are automatically downloaded when you're online in EOL.