sprites: request to devs

DrPraetorious · #1 June 5th, 2007, 06:55 PM

One more change. The 1 and 2 after the unit description are redundant since the two poses are always adjacent, so I've stopped adding them.

DrPraetorious · #2 June 5th, 2007, 07:28 PM

PB, thanks! Irfanview works great.

Here's army 5 with preliminary labels.

I think, actually, that labels reflecting the armament and description of the unit are probably going to be more useful to modders, rather than the name of the corresponding in game unit, especially for humanoid troops.

Gandalf Parker · #3 June 5th, 2007, 07:50 PM

Irfanview also has a module you can download for it which will let you view RGB files. That way you can easily view ALL of the maps in the maps directory.

Ballbarian · #4 June 5th, 2007, 08:07 PM

Just got home... Is there an easy way that anyone has seen to tie a unit number(s) to a sprite set? I am just a day or two from completing my province editor. It currently includes data filtering for units, items and magic sites (thanks to Edi's fantastic db!) and links to the online unit list graphics, but I would like to include the sprites in a preview of some sort.

Gandalf Parker · #5 June 5th, 2007, 08:35 PM

They might be kindof in order but I didnt verify that

Ballbarian · #6 June 5th, 2007, 08:50 PM

I gotta say that complaints about the graphics of dom3 really sell the beauty of all of these unit sprites short. Just browsing them en masse like this truly makes me appreciate the beauty of them. The time and care that has gone into making graphics with such detail and character while at the same time keeping the canvas and memory use so small deserves praise. Not to mention how this format makes it much more user friendly for modders and tinkerers. (Is tinkerers a word?

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Thanks again KO.

DrPraetorious · #7 June 5th, 2007, 09:34 PM

They really expose the crassness of what you get in a lot of videogames nowadays.

Certainly, it's nice to have a lot of pixels and polygons to work with, but if someone can actually draw (disclaimer - I cannot) they can convey the character of something with a simple line or, in this case, with a relatively tiny number of pixels.

From a la-de-da hoity-toity artistic standpoint, the ability to do good pixel art (as we see in dom3) is really quite refined.

I can do this pretty quickly so I'll just go ahead and label all the sprites myself. I'm not going to have time to match them to unit #s, I'm afraid, but I'll at least include a useful description of each sprite.