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Graphic flaws of small sprites of creatures
@Branikolog
In Heroes 2, there are a lot of small graphical flaws. Some of its flaws are present in fheroes2. I haven't compared to see if they are all present in fheroes2.
For example, for small sprites of creatures in fheroes2: Rangers have no shadow, champion feathers are cut at the top of the sprite, master swordsmen feathers are cut to the left and top of the sprite, veteran pikemen feathers are cut at the top of the sprite, the titan's shoulder pad can be improved.
All these little flaws, and more, have already been fixed. Here is a quote from Forums of Enroth:
Here is a thread https://heroes2.forumactif.com/t303-changes-to-the-game-s-graphics where changes have been made to the game graphics to correct some problems encountered. Certainly some files won't be needed as they fix display priority issues in different castles and I haven't started testing fheroes2 yet. All the changes made are indicated in the changelog. Some of these files have been modified by Uhm, try contacting him on this site to see if it is possible to use some of his modifications for your project. For the modifications made by me, it's okay. :)
Other Forums of Enroth links on this topic: https://heroes2.forumactif.com/t903-recruitment-tavern https://heroes2.forumactif.com/t930-fheroes2-0-8-graphics-issues-with-fheroes2
Hi @LeHerosInconnu , I'm going to fix all these issues with small sprites of creatures. Using modified resources is not a legally correct way but we can modify them in the game itself. I'll make some changes for obvious sprites but I'll need your help to modify the rest. What I need to to describe what exactly we need to change in the original sprite: add a shadow (copy from another sprite), add pixel A at position (X, Y) or something else.
Hello @ihhub,
Hi @LeHerosInconnu , I'm going to fix all these issues with small sprites of creatures. Using modified resources is not a legally correct way but we can modify them in the game itself. I'll make some changes for obvious sprites but I'll need your help to modify the rest. What I need to to describe what exactly we need to change in the original sprite: add a shadow (copy from another sprite), add pixel A at position (X, Y) or something else.
Give me some time and I'll take care of it. :)
@ihhub.
Here are the images before and after the changes. (After @ihhub applied the "automatic" creature shadow correction (https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2/pull/3284), I noticed that some of my manual shadow pixel corrections were not correct, the comparison sprites have not been replaced). I only put the difference file (images with black background) for those images where only few changes were made. All files are available in the zip file with better quality as github degrades the quality of the uploaded images. Changes to files from MONS32.ICN.zip
You can use DiffImg to compare images visually and MtPaint for pixel coordinates and palette colors. https://sourceforge.net/projects/diffimg/ http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
All the changes on the graphics are related to the file: MONS32.ICN
0000.bmp - Peasant
- sickle
- shadow (corrected)
0002.bmp - Ranger (corrected)
- full shadow (corrected)
0004.bmp - Veteran Pickman (corrected)
- top of the helmet (corrected)
0005.bmp - Swordman
- sword
0006.bmp - Master Swordman (your changes are not correct)
- top of the helmet
- tip of the feather on the left (two missing black pixels)
- sword
- shadow (corrected)
0007.bmp - Cavalry
- left shadow (corrected)
- spear
0008.bmp - Champion (your changes are not correct, black pixels along the edge of the spear)
- top of the helmet (corrected)
- left shadow (corrected)
- spear
0009.bmp - Paladin
- sword
0010.bmp - Crusader
- sword
0015.bmp - Ogre (corrected)
- left shadow (corrected)
0016.bmp - Ogre Lord (corrected)
- left shadow (corrected)
0020.bmp - Sprite (corrected)
- full shadow (corrected)
0029.bmp - Centaur (corrected)
- full shadow (corrected)
0038.bmp - Halfling (corrected)
- full shadow (corrected)
0044.bmp - Archmage (corrected)
- full shadow (corrected)
0045.bmp - Giant
- left shadow (corrected)
- shoulder
0046.bmp - Titan
- left shadow (corrected)
- shoulder
0047.bmp - Skeleton
- sword
- feet
0048.bmp - Zombie
- flies
- shadow (corrected)
0049.bmp - Zombie Mutant
- flies
- shadow (corrected)
- excess shadow pixel in the upper left corner of the sprite
0050.bmp - Mummy
- left shadow (corrected)
- foot strip
- hand strip
0051.bmp - Royal Mummy
- left shadow (corrected)
- foot strip
- hand strip
0054.bmp - Lich (corrected)
- left shadow (corrected)
0057.bmp - Rogue
- left shadow (corrected)
- knives
0058.bmp - Nomad
- left shadow (corrected)
- sword
- missing black pixel at the tip of the horse's tail
0059.bmp - Ghost (corrected)
- left shadow (corrected)
0063.bmp - Air Elemental (corrected)
- air hole :) (corrected)
Hi @LeHerosInconnu , could you please update this topic based on latest (in an hour built) version?
Hello @ihhub,
Hi @LeHerosInconnu , could you please update this topic based on latest (in an hour built) version?
I'll look at this tomorrow, it's time to go to sleep. :)
Hello @ihhub,
Hello @ihhub,
Hi @LeHerosInconnu , could you please update this topic based on latest (in an hour built) version?
I'll look at this tomorrow, it's time to go to sleep. :)
I have updated the post with the graphics.
@ihhub.
Air elemental also corrected :)
Oops, I compared the wrong elemental. :) That's corrected.
@a1exsh.
Is there anything left to do for this issue?
@ihhub was working on it. I haven't seen any changes or messages from him since the last correction in this thread. In the post with the creature graphics, it says "(corrected)" after the creature name when all the necessary corrections have been made. And "(corrected)" is indicated for each line of change for those corrected. All modification lines that do not end with "(corrected)" are therefore to be corrected. :)