Unit Names, IDs, and Graphics Available

[PvK]

You could get most of them from Dominions I: PPP, where they were always the same size... except I think they are lower res there. And it might be harder to automate.

Even with the screenshots, there is some tricky work in engineering an image of the same size as the original without too many artifacts from the process.

PvK

What settings are you looking for? Just Pixel size, or do you need resolution? If you use the largest pixel size availiable. 64x64 was it?

If you do that, then all people will need to do is edit the base image for attack animations.

I can't think of any good way to get attack animations since there is no stable command except for pause to try to get them and that is an incredible pain in the ***.

[Gandalf Parker]

Hmmm I havent played with MODs yet. Since mods do make reference to image 1 and image 2, is there any way in a mod to switch them? maybe create a new unit where they are reversed?

[PvK]

Nice idea, Gandalf, but no, not for the build-in units. That's because the only image mod commands refer to .TGA file names, and not unit numbers. If we could do that, then there would be little need for this.

That is, one thing IW could provide which would solve all of this would be if we had a mod command to use the images from an existing unit, by unit number.

PvK

[PvK]

Originally posted by Zen:
What settings are you looking for? Just Pixel size, or do you need resolution? If you use the largest pixel size availiable. 64x64 was it?
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I think he meant settings for his own routine which automated taking the screenshots. The ones he did resulted in higher resolution that the format needed for the images.

Considering that a 3D algorithm is at work on the images, with varying distances, I don't think it will be possible to use the battlefield view to get the images the right size. It might be possible to use the unit character sheet view, and/or the pretender view, to get a flatter Version of the image.

PvK

After speaking with him this is the best alternative. Unfortunately people will have to find out how to resize and crop their images down to the game parameters. Which if you are like me and Gimp, takes a long drawn out proceedure to shrink down the image.

[Maltrease]

All the images were captured from the unit detail screen. That seemed to be the way to get the cleanest and most detail out of them.

They are like 200x250 pixels. So they need to be sized down signifantly.

I think it is easier to edit them at this size though. Once you have finished modify the image you just need to get a clean alpha by selecting the black, crop the image to a square dimension, size it down, reapply the black, add a shadow (purple grid or something), and save your image.