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What tool to use for drawing ufopedia weapon pages and geoscape?
« on: September 16, 2015, 04:10:30 pm »
Is there some specific pogram that i have to use or are there several?

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Re: What tool to use for drawing ufopedia weapon pages and geoscape?
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2015, 04:27:47 pm »
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.

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Re: What tool to use for drawing ufopedia weapon pages and geoscape?
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2015, 05:54:43 pm »
This thread compiles the experience of people with various graphic tools :
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=2676.0

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Re: What tool to use for drawing ufopedia weapon pages and geoscape?
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2015, 09:42:22 pm »
Im thinking of making art for weapons and maybe later ufopedia pages.But how can i display my work to the website?

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Re: What tool to use for drawing ufopedia weapon pages and geoscape?
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2015, 10:58:02 pm »
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.

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Re: What tool to use for drawing ufopedia weapon pages and geoscape?
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2015, 11:07:06 pm »
There's also a key to make screenshots, attaching these can better show your mod 'in action'.

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Re: What tool to use for drawing ufopedia weapon pages and geoscape?
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2015, 12:04:45 pm »
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
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Re: What tool to use for drawing ufopedia weapon pages and geoscape?
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2015, 01:30:10 pm »
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).

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Re: What tool to use for drawing ufopedia weapon pages and geoscape?
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2015, 02:07:36 pm »
I think most of UFO/TFTD assets can be found here (in extracted form): https://spriters-resource.com/

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Re: What tool to use for drawing ufopedia weapon pages and geoscape?
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2015, 02:49:12 pm »
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 :>