RE: AGI2AGS graphics...

Wolverine · Mon 18/07/2005 08:27:29

I have noticed that in the black cauldron remake, DreamMaster has some how managed to take the old AGI graphics and convert them to 320x200. Anyone know of a simple way to do this?

Gilbert · Mon 18/07/2005 08:42:52

1. Take a screenshot form the game, or:
2. Get AGIStudio (I'm too lazy at the moment, you can just google), some versions (maybe all) of the editor has an option to save the backgrounds to BMPs if you open the game.

Orieac · Mon 18/07/2005 09:13:29

Maybe this could help:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=19601.0

Gilbert · Mon 18/07/2005 09:27:31

Scotch's plugin works differently, it's just that you draw your graphics to an AGS game normally and the plugin will make them blocky like AGI.

Orieac · Mon 18/07/2005 09:29:15

Quote from: Gilbot V7000a on Mon 18/07/2005 09:27:31
Scotch's plugin works differently, it's just that you draw your graphics to an AGS game normally and the plugin will make them blocky like AGI.

OK. I forgot about that. Sorry.

Wolverine · Tue 19/07/2005 00:29:07

I already tried AGIStudio's save function, but the problem is that AGIStudio doesn't center the images the way one would expect. It seems kind of silly to me to sit there and have to either remove the score bar manually from every single screen shot or have to re-align every single bmp file. Is there an easier way to do this? Some kind of a center function in AGS?

Wolverine · Tue 19/07/2005 00:31:28

Especially considering print screen is not working on my computer for some annoying reason. I've never been able to take screenshots of DOS stuff under XP.

Gilbert · Tue 19/07/2005 02:19:47

For screenshot taking, you can just use DOSBOX to run the game, or switch to the nagi interpreter.

I just tried saving a background with AGIStudio and it worked fine, if by " AGIStudio doesn't center the images the way one would expect" you meant it was supposed to be shifted down a bit for the scorebar, then that's just because you expected that, AGI backgrounds were all of res 320(160)*168, and that's exactly what's saved in the game data, so it's reasonable to have an image of that size if you save it.

Since you're ripping stuff, which means you're going to do much less work already, I don't think re-aligning the images one by one is something too technically and annoying to do.

(Also this thread does not belong in this forum, it should be moved to one of the Genera; forums.)