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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 13 January 2002 15:37     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Okay, when you view the animations with Cv5, there is no white outline but when you use them in game, there is a white border. So, here is another pic:

www.apocalypsedemon.freeservers.com/photo.html

Check last pic I have there. Also, it seems that if there is a slight shadow over the monster, the whole monster turns black for some reason...but they do work fine(but the attack animation crashes because of frames but that can easily be edited in animdata.d2).

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posted 13 January 2002 16:27     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
Thanks for all the help man, you have no idea how much time it saves me to have you test the animations for me

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posted 13 January 2002 16:30     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
ok a lil tip for your screenshot page... shrink those screenshots and put them on jpeg quality 1 or 2 saves people like me with 56k modems alot of time loading all those screenshots, not to mention it will sav eyou webspace

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posted 13 January 2002 16:32     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
No problem, glad to help.

Edit: I'll think about the reformatting of the site but for now, I'll just leave it like that. And I also have 56K AOL and it isn't that bad for me in terms of loading times.
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posted 13 January 2002 16:38     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
well u gotta figure each of those images is 500k, and u have alot of imasges there, not to mention the fact that the images are in your cache already, hit refresh once and watch the load time lol

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posted 13 January 2002 16:39     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
btw 2 or 3 more conversions and the dragon is complete :-D

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posted 13 January 2002 16:40     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Actually, I can't seem to get an images that are larger than 300K to upload, it says the file is too big(and this happened when the site was empty) so that sucks. That is why I use dark levels for my pictures, if I use light ones, the size of the picture goes over 300K and it doesn't upload. I have nice pics of the final battle against baal but can't upload them unfortunately.

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posted 13 January 2002 16:45     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
hey ill test your mod for you if you want im anxious to see it with all these conversions and gfx replacements

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posted 13 January 2002 16:47     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
When it is done, then I'll make it available. Or maybe for a beta test. And most of the screenshots are just tests to see if the animations will work, the monsters will in my mod will not be in the locations where the my screenshots show. For example, I'm not going to have BloodKnights in Act1 Catacombs, they're going in Act4/Act5. And the dragons are going into the river of flame along with the fire elementals.

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posted 13 January 2002 16:56     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
hmmm, did you know that there is 2 versions of the fire elemental in bg2, there is a lesser fire elemental, and a greater fire elemental(big and small) maybe a vile mother/pup replacement?

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posted 13 January 2002 17:02     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Well, which elemental did you convert so far, the big one or small one because I'm not that far in the game to know yet(still playing it).

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posted 13 January 2002 17:23     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
converted the big one, they both look the exact same except the lesser one is about half the size

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posted 13 January 2002 17:34     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
Death animation is close to being done(2 more directions) you up to it apacalypse demon?

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posted 13 January 2002 17:36     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Up for what, testing? Why not...

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posted 13 January 2002 18:04     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
ok it should be done in less then 10 mins depending on weather or not the last dirrection co-operates with me

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posted 13 January 2002 18:45     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
ok almost done, 5 more mins and the mail should be on its way to you

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posted 13 January 2002 18:53     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
What I'm wondering is why was your first walking animation without a white border but your second one has a border. Look at my screenshots again, you will see that the first pick the dragon has no white border lines but the new animation you sent me does which is the second screenshot with the dragons. What did you do the second time that made your animations screwed because the first time, they were correct...

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posted 13 January 2002 19:08     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
the seccond one is screwed because i found a way around the wite border with the first one, but i dont know exactly what causes it so i cant fix it totally, it will be fixed before the final release of the red dragon so dont worry bout it too much

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posted 13 January 2002 19:10     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Any idea how you would fix it? Doesn't look like anyone knows yet from your other thread on the subject.

P.S. Man this thread is getting huge, we must really love dragons.

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posted 13 January 2002 19:14     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
yea but from the looks of it we're the only ones on this forum right now, i should have some kind of answer tomorrow

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posted 13 January 2002 19:25     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Ok, got the death animation, now we need the corpse animation(quite easy to do). And is there a breath animation because you said that file was a bite animation.

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posted 13 January 2002 19:28     Click Here to See the Profile for KingCold   Click Here to Email KingCold        Reply w/Quote   
corpse and breath WILL be done by tomorrow, and with a little luck the dragon will be released to all of you expecting people tomorrow evening(provided i can get rid of that annoying white outline), but i REALLY need a place to host this guy he's huge and i dont wanna **** my isp off

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posted 13 January 2002 19:41     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Hmm, Kathras said something about hosting the animations for us. Or maybe badasswerewolf can host it...

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posted 13 January 2002 21:12     Click Here to See the Profile for badasswerewolf   Click Here to Email badasswerewolf        Reply w/Quote   Visit badasswerewolf's Homepage!
The white border that you are seeing is basically a result of the GIF image reduction. You are adding pixelation due to the way a GIF file is altered when it is reduced, optimized, and saved. Some programs - like Gamani GIFMovieGear - allow you to preserve palettes during saves and reductions. Even so, you still will degrade image quality during a "reduction" because you are starting with a bitmap - which is basically a specific number of pixels (screen area) assigned specific colors. When you reduce, you are trying to fit the same color arrangement in considerably less pixels. You expect the image to look the same? LOL. Doesn't work. It will get uglier as you get smaller. I think anything below 65% of original size will look noticeably "rough". And there is no way to fix it, short of major Photoshop touch-up to each frame or re-rendering the keyframes from the original 3D model.

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posted 13 January 2002 21:16     Click Here to See the Profile for badasswerewolf   Click Here to Email badasswerewolf        Reply w/Quote   Visit badasswerewolf's Homepage!
Oops! forgot to mention. I can provide server space on my site if need be (within reason of course)

How many MB are we talking?

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