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How can you know exactly how many coins are on a particular level of Angry Birds Star Wars 2 and where they are situated, so you can shoot effectively? The difficulty of doing this became much greater in P4, the pig half of the latest release of Angry Birds Star Wars II, Return of the Clones. The software developers appear to have decided to increase the level of difficulty by making the coins sometimes almost impossible to see. Here is one example, P4-14. You can’t see any coins at all, although there are in fact three coins there.
With a good screenshot and a picture editor, you can identify the area where the coins are located, shine a “spotlight” on that area, get an exact count of the coins, and get a precise idea of the geography of that area, even when the area is very murky, to best choose a character and angle of attack.You can get picture editors for iPads and Android for free which are quite good enough for this purpose. Once you know how to take a screenshot and learn how to increase gamma in your editor this process takes only a few minutes.
People have been shooting rockets in abundance everywhere on this level, blindly, knowing from prior releases that there should be coins and hoping to find them. Instead, if you bring a screenshot into a picture editor and create a “spotlight” (explained below), then you can move that spotlight around the screenshot until you find something interesting, like this.
This requires very little technical skill and should be easy for any one here at ABN who has reached this level. Here are some examples of what you can do. You can identify where the coins are even if you cannot get a precise account (e.g. above, in P-14), but you can usually get an exact count (e.g. P4-15). Once you have a detailed picture of the area, you can then gauge your flinging based on precise geography rather than a vague guess, (which is important in P4-16).
You need to figure out how to create screenshots in your particular hardware scenario. For mine, Android 4.4 on a Galaxy S3, I sweep my hand across the screen and pop there is the screenshot in a particular directory. Then you need to bring that screenshot into a decent picture/photo editor, one that allows you to use the “gamma” effect. I will leave it to someone else to describe exactly what the gamma function is, I know enough only to be able to use it. It falls under the “effects” menu in Photo Editor, the (free) image editor I prefer in Android. PicsArt claims to have it in their Android version but their documentation is abysmal so I cannot find it. It is in Photoshop, if you have access to it, but you only need a simple editor.
Here is a screenshot which clearly illustrates the “spotlight effect,” increasing gamma in one part of the screen. You can increase gamma for the entire screenshot, which lights up the entire scene, like lightning. I prefer to use it in a focused way, spotlighting only one area, in this case increasing gamma in a oval area.
ABN will be posting screenshots for Star Wars 2. But my hope is to explain this clearly enough that you can do it on our own.
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