[m4nfo] make long platforms; bounding box with negative x/y-position

[Erato]

Hey, I want to make long platforms that go up, much like what Garry did in Auzstations:

So I reckoned I could just paste two sprites next to eachother, and give one an offset of -16, like so:

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layout(0x04, //IDs for sprites and tiles might not represent nfo IDs
	tile(
	  ground(1012)
	  regular(0, xyz(-16,11,0),dxdydz(16,5,7))
	  regular(0, xyz(0,11,0),dxdydz(16,5,7))
	)
	tile(
	  ground(1011)
	  regular(1, xyz(11,-16,0),dxdydz(5,16,7))
	  regular(1, xyz(11,0,0),dxdydz(5,16,7))
	)
)

But the NFO this generates gets this error:

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//!!Apparent real sprite does not contain a file name.
//!!Invalid character: "-".
//    0 * 0	 00 04 01 01 c3 09 02
//f4 03 00 00
//		  -10 0b 00 10 05 07 2d 04 00 00
//		  00 0b 00 10 05 07 2d 04 00 00
//		  80
//		f3 03 00 00
//		  0b -10 00 05 10 07 2e 04 00 00
//		  0b 00 00 05 10 07 2e 04 00 00
//		  80

How can I make this work?

[michael blunck]

I don't think the game allows for negative offsets in station tile layouts:

Note that the coordinates here are 3D coordinates with x running from top-right to bottom-left and y running from top-left to bottom-right, with the tile dimensions being 16x16 (and 8 for one height level). This means the x and y values should always be within 0-15 (decimal).

regards
Michael

[Erato]

I figured it out. The values in xyz are signed integers.
Instead of -16 I should use 0xF0, which is the 2's complement of 16.