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overlord
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posted February 14, 2004 12:02 PM |
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heroes from scratch
hello everybody.
Im a member of the wog-team and Im currectly working on
the ability to code the game engine by myself.
This sound like an impossible and huge project but having all the resources already made and a schema to follow this isen't anything impossible.
My first attempt is to code the interior of a town.
I have already coverted all the castle buildings and made them working in the program.
I use gif animation instead of def format. Im doing this to make things easier later on when new towns will be created.
Im using ini-files where you can change almost anything. The Ini-files works like scripts where u write the file u want to use and some variables where to have it in the screen (x-y), type of building, left-right button events, sounds, script used/internal or external and more.
The control-window inside the town will be customize aswell. so we can make almost any kind of control-window.
So, what Im trying to say is if anyone of u want to help me out on this.
What I need is someone that can extract def-files+highlighted pix and masked pix, put them into gif animation files. Work with the ini file, where u write the x-y coordination of the building plus some info of the building and some more.
There's 9 town-type. So there's lots to do.
Later we will work with resource pictures. converting and creating gifs (im using gifs becouse they are transparent, small sized, 256 color (like def files) , easy to work with)
The second project will be to create the battle screen, converting all creatures, spells and the heroes. fully customized ofcourse.
Anyone wants to join?
contact me at lovegoa@hotmail.com
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Stormrage
Known Hero
Tucker is not a duck
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posted February 22, 2004 01:24 PM |
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hello everybody.
Im a member of the wog-team and Im currectly working on
the ability to code the game engine by myself.
This sound like an impossible and huge project but having all the resources already made and a schema to follow this isen't anything impossible.
My first attempt is to code the interior of a town.
I have already coverted all the castle buildings and made them working in the program.
I use gif animation instead of def format. Im doing this to make things easier later on when new towns will be created.
Im using ini-files where you can change almost anything. The Ini-files works like scripts where u write the file u want to use and some variables where to have it in the screen (x-y), type of building, left-right button events, sounds, script used/internal or external and more.
The control-window inside the town will be customize aswell. so we can make almost any kind of control-window.
So, what Im trying to say is if anyone of u want to help me out on this.
What I need is someone that can extract def-files+highlighted pix and masked pix, put them into gif animation files. Work with the ini file, where u write the x-y coordination of the building plus some info of the building and some more.
There's 9 town-type. So there's lots to do.
Later we will work with resource pictures. converting and creating gifs (im using gifs becouse they are transparent, small sized, 256 color (like def files) , easy to work with)
The second project will be to create the battle screen, converting all creatures, spells and the heroes. fully customized ofcourse.
Anyone wants to join?
contact me at lovegoa@hotmail.com
So what you're sayin is that you are creating a new Homm3 mod?
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Lord_Woock
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Daddy Cool with a $90 smile
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posted February 22, 2004 01:29 PM |
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More like completely rebuilding the whole game 
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Yolk and God bless.
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My buddy's doing a webcomic and would certainly appreciate it if you checked it out!
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Henr1k
Tavern Dweller
Defender of Faith
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posted February 24, 2004 04:57 PM |
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Using gif? as you said its only 256 colors. Is it not beter to use some other format like jpeg and make a special color transparent in game? maybe? But i dont know how.
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overlord
Tavern Dweller
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posted February 26, 2004 03:23 AM |
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Using gif? as you said its only 256 colors. Is it not beter to use some other format like jpeg and make a special color transparent in game? maybe? But i dont know how.
all the def files in heroes r in 256 color palette, so I have no use to have more if I take the graphic out of heroes. comparing the compression and size of different formats "bmp,jpg,gif,pcx,png" the gif format wins and r the best choice when using 256 palette mode.
gif are easy to handle, U can make your own animations directly using gif-anim software. They have build-in palette so U don't need to correspond to any global palette as def files does.
gif have only 1 transparency index, so I will use an inbuild alpha-blending function that will use one color choosed so we can have shadows to.
backgrounds and other static graphics will use 24bit formats (jpg,bmp).
I think 256 color r sufficent for heroes, we don't need to increase that, we r only talking about small icon-like pictures anyway.
maybe in the future when Im done with the basics I can add sprites and other animation formats, but for the moment im focusin on importing/converting all the graphics from heroes to the project.
becouse I will code the game in window-mode the game will take more cpu. so U will need at least 500mhz speed.
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Cybernetic
Known Hero
Cypriot Legend
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posted February 26, 2004 03:29 AM |
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Ideas just roll through your head don't they robert hehe mmm the castles inside?? Very facinating what is your idea on this? What sort of inside are you thinking??
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Lord_Woock
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
Daddy Cool with a $90 smile
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posted February 26, 2004 10:22 AM |
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Town view I guess.
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Yolk and God bless.
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My buddy's doing a webcomic and would certainly appreciate it if you checked it out!
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Henr1k
Tavern Dweller
Defender of Faith
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posted February 26, 2004 03:33 PM |
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It sounds intresting i could help whit somthing if you wish but i dont know if my skilles are enough.
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Haregar
Famous Hero
of destruction
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posted March 18, 2005 05:33 PM |
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Well... My skills in graphics are bad. But I'm good at do graphics in corel draw 9. I using Tablet and paint new heroes  .
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