Mod: Caelis Immolatum ON HOLD

Endoperez · #1 April 28th, 2007, 08:41 AM

In DomII, I just grabbed a screenshot when Dom was windowed (800x600 resolution), pasted it into MsPaint, removed the two hues of black that aren't shadow and recolored the two hues of shadow magenta. I had to use a black map and opacity 0 to get the background/shadow to just four hues, but it was generally worth it. I've posted the method here a couple of times, but haven't gotten it to work for Dom3 yet. Haven't tried it hard, though. :/

Sombre · #2 April 28th, 2007, 08:51 AM

Yeah I sort of rubbished that method you posted before because the consensus was that it didn't work and I never actually tried it at 800x600 fullscreen (it doesn't work at any other setting).

The minor effort of changing shadows etc is basically irrelevant to me. I was drawing the fricking things by hand just from looking at a wrongly sized screengrab of the game (using a blurry resize to get about the right shape/pose/colours) before. Now,.. wow,.. I made a new thread for this,... it's crazy good news.

VedalkenBear · #3 April 28th, 2007, 04:47 PM

Thanks, Sombre. Here I come thinking 7 new posts on my mod, and nary a one (except for I guess Endo's first) actually deal with the mod.

What a letdown.

Shovah32 · #4 April 28th, 2007, 05:29 PM

Think thats a letdown? Every time i see a new post on this thread i think(hope) the mods been released

Endoperez · #5 April 28th, 2007, 05:32 PM

Sorry about that.

Your plan is pretty much complete, and I don't have anything to add to that. Mechanics-wise, the nation is interesting and you might actually use the lightning-resistant troops for their resistance. I'd have to see more details before I can give any more advice, but it seems like an interesting and viable mod. Nothing too complicated, doable graphics (grab the LA caelum sprites from the sprite extraction thread if you need them), and all in all a project that will probably get finished.

VedalkenBear · #6 April 28th, 2007, 09:40 PM

Oh, can anyone give me a sprite of the Spring Hawk? I'm going to need to palette-shift it into a Firebird... (probably summoned somehow with the Phoenix...)

Sombre · #7 April 28th, 2007, 09:43 PM

Well the end result of this is that your graphics are going to be easy/easier to do.

If you want the springhawk sprite just add it to your recruitment screen with #addrecunit and then follow the sprite extraction stuff.

Endoperez · #8 April 29th, 2007, 04:58 PM

Attached are sprites of Great Hawk, Spring Hawk and a rudimentary, 10-minute Firebird done in Gimp. It's surprisingly flashy. All have white background (instead of black) and near-black shadows (instead of magenta).