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Old February 19th, 2005, 02:09 PM
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Default Re: Would this be possible?

Read the thread 'Looking for the <tgafile> for angels'. The pictures are not stored in a rational order, or as .tga files. They could, maybe, be extracted, but then we would just have all the sprites which would then have to be ordered. Not an easy task, as many creatures have sprites that resemble each other or, in few cases, are exactly the same.
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Old February 19th, 2005, 04:14 PM
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Yes, I saw that -- but I had thought that Illwinter had a library of .tgas which were used in coding to make that "unordered" bit there in the game, so although some units may be identical, there were a bunch of tgas out there for all of them....
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The sprites are not in tga format in the game. To make modding possible the game can read tga sprites, but in the game the sprites are stored in trs files. This is a format used by Spooky sprites (made by JK). Currenly there is only one way of extracting tgas and that is the one described by thilock.
Earlier it has been mentioned that the sprites have been done with that Spooky Sprites program. So the sprites have never been in .tga format!

That was new to me too. And if creating graphics has the same user-friendliness as creating unit stats (11,2,10,4...,+bers 2,+poison 100), I must wonder how much time they have used to make the game... And how much time are they using to create the sequel!
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