How to make a stage for WinMugen tutorial - M.U.G.E.N Elecbyte

1)
Select the image you want for your stage background, and take notes of it's X and Y sizes.
For this tutorial, I am going to use the size I always use, but you can either follow my example, or use any size you want.

It should be at least larger than 512x250.

Create an 950x250 image
Open an image with paintbrush.
Resize it to 950x250. (Or whatever size you want)

Next, you need to save the image in a format that Mugen can read, this typically is Bmp, so to play it safe, let's save our image in Bmp. Go ahead and... Save it as 24-bit bitmap

2)
Open fighter factory.
Click on the palette tab Icon. So we can convert the image.

Open the image you created by clicking on red folder on the top right of that window pop up.

Scroll the "file type" from pcx format to bitmap format, in order for it to display your picture.
Click open.
Click optimize on by clicking the blue TV icon, on the bottom right, middle icon.

Once palette is optimized, the colors will display on the right side palette box, which was previously all black squares..., then save it as PCX format, by clicking the top right, red floppy disk icon. It has to be PCX.

3)
Click Sprite tab, (Polaroid icon), to open the sprites menu.


Click change (NOT add) on left toolbar, to upload the pcx format picture you just saved.

4)
Using a calculator...Check the picture's X and Y axis at bottom of sprite toolbar
Divide the X axis by 2 and type in the (Result) X axis in the value box.
eg. 950/2=475, so X axis = 475

Subtract 240 out of the Y axis and type in the Y axis value box.
eg. 250-240=10, so Y axis = 10

Save it as an SFF file by clicking the sff icon on the left toolbar.

Click individual palette option and ok.
Make sure it is individual, and not shared.

5)
Make a copy of stage's stage00.def file that came with mugen.
You will be using the stage00.def for your stage
Rename the copy to your stage
Open it

Starting from top:
Rename the stage, but leave the quotation symbols
[Info]
;Name of the stage.
name = "your stage name here"

6)
Scroll down to find this:

Mugen wrote: ;Left and right bound of camera;
You may want to fiddle a bit with these values to make sure the;
background doesn't move too far or too little
boundleft = -95
boundright = 95

Using a calculator... Divide the picture's X axis by 3.
eg. 950/3=316.66666666666666666666666666667

Type that result in both left and right bounds

Do NOT remove the minus symbol from left bound

NOTE:
The result of divided by 3, may not work properly if you do not put the EXACT result
Note that it has to be the EXACT result.
eg. 316.66666666666666666666666666667

7)
Scroll down to find this:

Using a calculator... Subtract 240 (mugen's default height) by the image's Y axis.
eg. 240-250= -10
Type that result on the boundhigh
Do NOT remove the minus symbol
Do NOT alter the boundlow

8)
Scroll down to find:

Mugen wrote: ;This is how much the camera will move vertically towards the
;highest player. Valid values are from 0 to 1. A value of 0 will mean
;the camera does not move up at all. A value of 1 will makes the camera
;follow the highest player.
;Typically .2 for normal-sized backgrounds. You may need to pull this;value up for taller backgrounds.
verticalfollow = .2

NOTE: This is optional
Only alter this for characters that jump really high.
Usually is at .0 if you don't want the camera to move along with the highest player.

9)
Scroll down to find this:

Mugen wrote: ;The sprite number to use for the background (from the SFF specified above)
;It's the group-number, followed by a comma, then the sprite-number
;*** Do not omit this line.spriteno = 0, 0

This is just to verify that you need to have the group and image numbers exactly like in fighter factory.
Usually it's at 0, 0
So usually further alterations wont be necessary.

10)
Scroll to find:

This step is very important:

; Main background definition[BGdef]
;Filename of sprite data.
spr = your stage name here.sff

Change the sprite (spr) name to the exact same name of your stage definition.
Always add .sff after the stage name

11)
Scroll to the end to find this:

Mugen wrote: [BG 1]
type = normal
spriteno = 0, 1
start = 0, 185
delta = 1, 1
mask = 0
velocity = 0, 0
tile = 1, 0
tilespacing = 0, 0

Remove this entire section if you are NOT using an animation in your stage
If your stage contains only one single layer or no animations, that column has to be removed.

12)
SAVE! DONE!