What tool to use for drawing ufopedia weapon pages and geoscape?

[doctor medic]

Is there some specific pogram that i have to use or are there several?

[Dioxine]

The OXCom accepts common uncompressed graphic file formats (.gif, .png), although many programs have issues with properly converting hi- or true- color images used nowadays to the 256 XCom palette. Adobe Photoshop has never failed me, haven't tried other programs.

[yrizoud]

This thread compiles the experience of people with various graphic tools :
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=2676.0

[doctor medic]

Im thinking of making art for weapons and maybe later ufopedia pages.But how can i display my work to the website?

[Solarius Scorch]

Im thinking of making art for weapons and maybe later ufopedia pages.But how can i display my work to the website?

You can use imgur or other such website, or you can attach the file to your post.

[yrizoud]

There's also a key to make screenshots, attaching these can better show your mod 'in action'.

[doctor medic]

Im going to start by editing existing weapons or doing recolors before i go to the tough stuff.

Also,were do i find the original weapon sprites for ufopedia pages and in game icons?I only see some files and not images

[Solarius Scorch]

Im going to start by editing existing weapons or doing recolors before i go to the tough stuff.

Also,were do i find the original weapon sprites for ufopedia pages and in game icons?I only see some files and not images

They're in the original .pck format. Extracting them is possible, but a bit of a pain. There are tools for that, but I guess the simplest way to go about it would be to use Volutar's MCDEdit, even though it was made for other purposes (making new map tiles/objects).

I'll post what I have extracted later if you're interested, but I right now don't know if I have everything (certainly all the bigobs, not sure about handobs and floorobs).

[Dioxine]

I think most of UFO/TFTD assets can be found here (in extracted form): https://spriters-resource.com/

[hellrazor]

For extracting Sprites from original gamefiles, nothing beats Falkos modtools in this regard.
Easy to use, creates *.png files with corect palettte and also makes you spritesheets directly.
Simple easy :>