How to resize image from DEF?

[Artas1984]

Alright, i feel like an idiot resizing the 88 bitmap animation files of a single goblin creature from a def file with PhotoShip CS2 and then trying to make a new def file without success. A whole day it took!!!

Here is the problem - a bitmap image in the def file has parameters like the picture "widthbitmap" and "heightbitmap" as well as "widthframe" and "heightframe":




When i was resizing every image manually i made the exact copies of the default bmp images aprox 1.4 times smaller, this is what i mean:



But when i placed those 88 resized images to create a def file, nothing worked, because it did not recognized the "wifthframe" and "heightframe".

Now i think you know my problem. A whole day wasted and no results.

So, how do i make a def file from resized bitmap images where i can write the parameters of frames?

When you answer me this, please try to answer as detailed as you can, not just post your opinions..

[Salamandre]

I don't have a clue about what you are doing there. Can I ask:

What tools you use? What version of the game? Why don't you use the Photoshop tool for processing multiple images in one script, so it takes 2 minutes to make 88 frames?

The latest deftool does not care about wight or height frame. To resize an existing one you have to remove the cyan (0.255.255) from palette, resize and copy, paste in a new 450x400 layer and add cyan background. All this can be automatically done by batch processing. Then of course you have to set a new position in deftool using the grid. 2 hexes monsters will have wrong animations on hit and getting hit frames if resized, so need manually fix.

[Artas1984]

I feel like having the mood to start this again, so help me here.

I have defviewer, defmaker 3.5, deftool, viewpcx, resedit2.

I have Heroes 3 Complete.

Let's start from beginning, because i forgot everything. First of all how do i extract the the pcx from def file? Let's use the same cgobli.def file. What i want to do is resize the creature - make him 1,4 times smaller in every frame.

Since what i did last time was BS, tell me how to do it right. How do you paste the pcx image in deftool?

[GreatEmerald]

You can only extract BMPs, last time I checked.

[Artas1984]

First off all, you said you need to remove the cyan background before resizing the image. How do you do this? Talking about Photoshop CS2. By manually brushing the cyan background around the image with another color? That is pain in the ass - is there a function in any image program that would identify cyan background from the rest of image and automatically fill it with another color? Imagine you yourself have to remove the cyan background - what you do!?

And just by the way - all the editing must be done on an 8 bit BMP right?

[GreatEmerald]

There is a tool, or two tools, actually. One of them is the Paint Bucket. If you set it to be non-contiguous and have zero tolerance, it will replace only that colour everywhere. Another tool is the palette editor. You can access it when you set the mode to Indexed. It allows you to swap any colours in the palette.

[Artas1984]

To resize an existing one you have to remove the cyan (0.255.255) from palette, resize and copy, paste in a new 450x400 layer and add cyan background.

How about this:

REMOVE CYAN
RESIZE
ADD CYAN

I mean does it make a difference between

REMOVE CYAN
RESIZE
ADD CYAN

and

REMOVE CYAN
RESIZE
COPY
PASTE IN NEW LAYER
ADD CYAN

???

All this can be automatically done by batch processing.

Ok what? Batch processing is used to convert image file types from one to other, not resizing pictures.. Are you sure you not confusing something?
Things like removing background and resizing are done by hand, step by step, and it is quite easy too.

[Artas1984]

I noticed just now that i can use DEFTOOL and it can open my bmp or pcx files..

So i was using the wrong program. Nobody uses DEFMAKER, but DEFTOOL instead? Salamandre - you use only DEFTOOL to to import resized picture into DEF catalog, not DEFMAKER?

GreatEmerald helped me all he could - since he uses Linux, he can't really do all the things i would ask him.

[Salamandre]

Your infos are 2 years old and CH is not the forum to ask for modding/work with H3resources.

Try here:

http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=32519