Sprite Extractor?

[heardie]

Here hoping

I know there wasn';t onoe a while ago, but is there one now?

Even one to view the frames? With Civ 3 know out this would be a great way to get newe units, and vice-vers (eg. Civ3 units to *.spr format).

Is/Was there ever one planned? I mean the format is actually given. Surely with the egreat programmers around who can crack *.zfs and *.rim's and *.til's someone could do this?

[Martin Gühmann]

You should contact Martin the Dane about that. It is just a question of time and how much he knows about the sprite format. Fortunatly the readme about the sprite maker contains some information about the format. You could also ask Klaus Kaan as he tries to make a CTP2 emulator so he has to know everything about the format when he is finished.

So far there is only the hard way of extracting graphics screen captures. A not very fast way and with a not not very good result.

But for me it is enough to convert Civ3 units to CTP2 Sprite format as neither there will be a German version available in the near future nor I won't have enough time to play, so it can be get cheap until I will buy it maybe.

-Martin

[heardie]

Actually I found a good way to do it
1. Use tile extractor, set the tiles to color 255,0,255
2.. User hypercam to record avi's
3. go into the game and move a unit
4. use animation shop to edit

Would work bbetter if you could get right of the green circle around the unit. Can you?

[The Big Mc]

I have been thinking of capturing the sprite frames. it may be possible to capture death sequences and attack I will look into it and post what I found here

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by heardie
2.. User hypercam to record avi's

Use what?

[The Big Mc]

what is hypercam. i thick its a program to make make a movie on what you so on the computer like a print screen.i myself havent got it but i have been loking for a way around it.

[Immortal Wombat]

Woohoo, hypercam is pretty good

Captures avi's from PC screen. Then open in Animation shop, copy frames to PSP, and cut out relevant bits. (The trial version leaves a 'unregistered version' message in the top corner, but since I cut out only a bit anyway, it doesn't bother me.)

PS. I love the colourise tool

[The Big Mc]

so it works but one big question remains which site did you download it from and how many meg

[Immortal Wombat]

Dunno, do a search at http://www.google.com for HyperCam. Its not big, only 374 kb

[The Big Mc]

I will do that and post the hyper link here

[Locutus]

Originally posted by The Big Mc
I will do that and post the hyper link here

Too late

http://www.hyperionics.com/hc/

[The Big Mc]

great I have not looked yet

[Ekmek]

Can anyone give any more detail on making sprites?

I have paint shop pro 7 and animation shop 3. I want to convert Civ3 units to CTP2 so how do go from animation shop to a animated sprite usable for CTP2?

Thanks

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[Ekmek]

Can anyone give any more detail on making sprites?

I have paint shop pro 7 and animation shop 3. I want to convert Civ3 units to CTP2 so how do go from animation shop to a animated sprite usable for CTP2?

Thanks

E

[The Big Mc]

yes

use hyper cam to capture your units movement then move the pics into animation shop so you can cut it up so that you just have a series of images of your unit moving move this images into paint shop and then use the sprite maker after moding from there .

oh and merry Christmas