N4rF Posted September 7, 2003 Report Share Posted September 7, 2003 Ok, so I know how to edit the equip stuff, some of the aliens, ect... but I want to modify the actual x-com soldiers. The animation, make them look different. I only really wanted to edit one group of armors to be represented differently in the tactical screen. I may eventually want to go further with this, but i was mainly wondering if its possible first. Reiterated, how can i export the animation pcx's to edit them? pckmanip does not work with these files... says "cannot decode" or something like that, much like its description in the bugs section of the info. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted September 7, 2003 Report Share Posted September 7, 2003 Apocalypse's pck format is apparently slightly different from the one used in UFO and TFTD. If you can get the XED editor running on your machine, you can use it to view and extract frames from the game's various .pck files. However, I don't recall if you can use it to import frames. There are some rather interesting sprites that are unused. Like a gold android civilian with a head that appears to swivel independantly, and a few 'armoured' sprites for the gangs and cult of sirius. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N4rF Posted September 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Yeah i tried to get XED to work, but it didn't want to. Would flash a screen then quit. No idea whats wrong with it. I'm on xp, that might be it, i dunno. Any other options? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentBif Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 Well, this site here has a program called pckmanip which lets you examine all the pcx files in a pck archive: https://www.dwcs.net/xcom3/humans/downloads.html I can't get XED to work, but this pckmanip program runs pretty smooth (dos). I don't know which file holds the soldier animation frames though. My problem is once I extract a pcx, I can convert to bmp and edit, but I can't convert BACK to a pcx ;( Can you help me with a utility to convert pcx to bmp and back? bif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N4rF Posted September 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2003 well to answer you concern about bmp to pcx, you can do this with photoshop if you have this available. I think there is a free version which will allow you to convert files as you need... search around using google, shouldn't be hard. As for pckmanip, as in my first post here, I stated pckmanip will not decode the x-com soldier pck's which are in tacdata... i have no idea why, it just says "cannot decode" or something to that effect. I am looking to find another possibility to get around this if i can. Thanks anyway for your effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeFireLight Posted September 27, 2003 Report Share Posted September 27, 2003 The problem is that in UFO/TFTD the unit images are in separate files and the format has been docoded for a long time. While it's not know the exact format or location of the Apoc unit images. as far as I know it's not curently posible. -Blade FireLight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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