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maestro posted 05-01-99 05:55 AM ET
I am about half-way through making a mod/total conversion of AC, but I cannot find an obvious way to access the unit image fragments (since they have to put the fragments together to make the whole image).
If anyone has heard anything about hacking these images, please respond to this post.
PS for those of you who are too curious, just wait a couple more weeks and I'll unveil v1.0 of the mod.
Al Gore Rythm posted 05-01-99 10:22 AM ET
The images (as far as I know) are hard-coded into SMAC, and so far there are no programs out there that will go inside the game and look for them.
Worse yet, the images in SMAC are made in 3d Caviar-Pixel Whatever stuff, so you'll need a Caviar Design program to even edit them, when or if you ever got to them.
maestro posted 05-01-99 01:59 PM ET
Ah well, I might not be able to do that then. Doesn't stop me from converting almost everything else in the game though If anyone knows differently about the unit image data, or has a utility used with other games to extract such data, I'd appreciate it, but I'm going to go on the assumption that I can't change that part.
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Author	Topic: Hacking the unit images
maestro	posted 05-01-99 05:55 AM ET I am about half-way through making a mod/total conversion of AC, but I cannot find an obvious way to access the unit image fragments (since they have to put the fragments together to make the whole image). If anyone has heard anything about hacking these images, please respond to this post. PS for those of you who are too curious, just wait a couple more weeks and I'll unveil v1.0 of the mod.
Al Gore Rythm	posted 05-01-99 10:22 AM ET The images (as far as I know) are hard-coded into SMAC, and so far there are no programs out there that will go inside the game and look for them. Worse yet, the images in SMAC are made in 3d Caviar-Pixel Whatever stuff, so you'll need a Caviar Design program to even edit them, when or if you ever got to them.
maestro	posted 05-01-99 01:59 PM ET Ah well, I might not be able to do that then. Doesn't stop me from converting almost everything else in the game though If anyone knows differently about the unit image data, or has a utility used with other games to extract such data, I'd appreciate it, but I'm going to go on the assumption that I can't change that part.