Great source of sprites!!!

[kristoff]

Please, could someone replace awful HoI sprites, especially infantry, using sprites from Civ III - default and also those made by fans (www.civfanatics.com). There are some great sprites for infantry, tanks, everything from WWII for different countries. Good ones were also attached to Play the World (expansion pack for CivIII) - you can e-mail me and I'll sen them to you, as well as Flicster - a programm allowing viewing civ sprites and frames.

I tried myself and replaced stand sprite for Jap infantry - looked million times better than original, but was shaking in every direction. Well, I do not have any idea about graphics and just pasted frames, but must have done it very bad

Is there someone more skillful and interested?l

 

[DrVonCool]

Wow... some nice sprites there. I was just checking out the infantry units (and a nice Bf109)....

No idea on how to convert/use the .FLC files, though, for use in HOI's sprite animation routine.

Let's see what the sprite pros say about this stuff.

 

[kristoff]

Well

There is Flicster - a programm that allows to view CivIII sprites but also transform them to a storyboard pcx. Then you can copy the frames from storyboard and paste them to bmp files for units in HoI. It works, but I just couldn't do this properly, to avoid unit shaking and some strange shadows.

 

[DrVonCool]

Re: Well

Originally posted by kristoff
There is Flicster....

Nice information... if this thing can be used for creating HOI sprites, there sure is a vast library available for ideas.

 

[kristoff]

Especially, I would love to see somebody doing sprites form PtW expansion pack for CivIII (I can send them), cause there are nice infantry sprites for Jap, USA, German, Italian, UK and Russian (this one is great!).

 

[gzav]

i browsed the site, but i didnt see that many WWII units, i saw that some PTW WWII units didnt have a link, any way to see that WWII pack? (n°7 in the PTW units).
and i agree, some of those i saw look great, somebody should make them for HoI.
g

 

[kristoff]

Originally posted by gzav
i browsed the site, but i didnt see that many WWII units, i saw that some PTW WWII units didnt have a link, any way to see that WWII pack? (n°7 in the PTW units).
g

Most interesting units are not there, because original WWII civunits are in a PtW expansion pack (these infantry I mentioned too) - they do not let to publish them on a fansite and make downloadable, cause then nobody would buy expansion pack, which offers in fact only some additional graphics, WWII units among them, and is not worth its price at all.

But if someone would like to make these units for HoI I could e-mail them.

 

[Josip]

Originally posted by DrVonCool
Wow... some nice sprites there. I was just checking out the infantry units (and a nice Bf109)....

No idea on how to convert/use the .FLC files, though, for use in HOI's sprite animation routine.

Let's see what the sprite pros say about this stuff.

You can open *.FLC files with Animation Shop... Flicster is IMO a rather shitty program.

 

[unmerged(17280)]

can yoy guys host some pictures on these models ?
curious

 

[przy]

Ya, me too

 

[kristoff]

Originally posted by aevs
can yoy guys host some pictures on these models ?
curious

If someone can tell me how to post a screenshot/picture ect. in here I can do it.

 

[kristoff]

Originally posted by aevs
can yoy guys host some pictures on these models ?
curious

If someone can tell me how to post a screenshot/picture ect. in here I can do it.

 

[gzav]

you dont have to post them here, you can just put them on a site somewhere and give us the link.

 

[kristoff]

Originally posted by gzav
you dont have to post them here, you can just put them on a site somewhere and give us the link.

Ehem, should I create my own website? Well, I'm just an old man playing Paradox games with no idea of even tiny programming or html and stuff OK, I'll try to post some examples here.

 

[nachinus]

Originally posted by kristoff
Most interesting units are not there, because original WWII civunits are in a PtW expansion pack (these infantry I mentioned too) - they do not let to publish them on a fansite and make downloadable, cause then nobody would buy expansion pack, which offers in fact only some additional graphics, WWII units among them, and is not worth its price at all.

But if someone would like to make these units for HoI I could e-mail them.

Could you send me some units and i will see what i can do?
I took a look at a B25 unit i downloaded and it won´t be very dificult to convert them to Hoi.

nachinus@hotmail.com

 

[kristoff]

Originally posted by nachinus
Could you send me some units and i will see what i can do?
I took a look at a B25 unit i downloaded and it won´t be very dificult to convert them to Hoi.

nachinus@hotmail.com

Already sent. I'm waiting

And sorry for a late answer.

 

[unmerged(17540)]

FLC->GIF converter

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31847

 

[nachinus]

I´m having problems when decreasing coulour depth and resizing the sprites to match HoI formats. Although it works it causes a drastical decrease of sprite´s quality. The sprite still looks ok, but its not as good as i expected.

 

[gzav]

maybe you could post a screenshot so we could see what it looks like?

 

[nachinus]

I´m at the university right now and i don´t have here the sprite. Maybe tomorrow, ok?