Opening .PIC files

[gmzombie]

just as i promised here is the site with the capture and capture1.zip files at...they wouldnt let me upload anymore files?

http://home.comcast.net/~gmzombie/

[Huggybaby]

Make your own mediafire folder, and rapidshare collector's folder as a backup. That's what I do and I have gigabytes of data up.

[mathusalem]

just as i promised here is the site with the capture and capture1.zip files at...they wouldnt let me upload anymore files?

http://home.comcast.net/~gmzombie/

both capture links redirect me toward the update2 file

sorry Zombie

[gmzombie]

sorry bout that i was tired when i did that FIXED same page

[mathusalem]

I'm sorry Zombie, but both capture links still urge me to save "update2" on my hard drive

[gmzombie]

damn it lol i uploaded the wrong one...now for sure it works i tested it.

[mathusalem]

Well thanks, Zombie, i don't know how you did it, I have myself fought with Viewpic for over an hour. I'm sure glad I wasn't using computers in 1995, it really must have been hell.
Well now I know the size of the deckbuilder buttons and I judging by the size of another image, I believe I got it right for the playmats regarding size.
OK. Now, there are a few images that are in the duelart folder that I would like to see for real. and I'm crappy with all those old time exe. That's the WINBK pics and the hand pics, also, the background of the available mana. and all the buttons (need to see how they are textured, if their size is set, etc...)

Now. this is a call to alll our friends coders, we are going to need to change the format for those images, thanks to what Zombie sent me, I had the evidence of something I suspected : some of the pics have already been turned into BMPs by Mok and used by the game. So this means He had found a way for the game to load bmps instead of .pic files. So we (you) need to find that. The goal is to force it to accept bmps or even (rather) .png (which should allow transparency without the green mask) for all the interface images. it includes buttons, bars and all that ilk.
I'll update one of my first post in the graphic sticky to post some general info regarding the images of the interface.

[gmzombie]

I will get those to hyou tonight. I thought I had them all. I hope w can. get some buttons changed and or added.

[mathusalem]

I will get those to hyou tonight. I thought I had them all. I hope w can. get some buttons changed and or added.

Thank you,
well added and changed, for the moment, I have doubts, the bmp to pic exe, seems to only change faces. an, as I said, what we really want is use something else that the .pic files, they are much too troublesome to handle. Once we make the move to bmps or pngs it will be piece of cake.

I've noticed that the whole game seems to be scattered with .pic files, therer are some in the root directory, some in Duelarts, in DBarts,ertc.... so don't worry about having missed a few. I wouldn't have bothered if I hadn't discovered my total incapacity to open these things even with Huggy's tools. that's when I must confess I'm not really one of those computer wiz, I've never used such an old app before, I came to computers with Mac OS 9 and Windows 98

[gmzombie]

no problem some pic files wont show even with the tools so we are out of luck there. but if mok can change the files around to use bmp so can we. i dont know how yet but we can. you already seen my tempest icon right?

[mathusalem]

oh yeah I've done a few things with buttons actually this afternoon, now that I know their size . I'm trying to find a new design....although if all fails I can use the old one

[gmzombie]

once that is done i have a bmp for the booster packs that i did a while ago that had the dark, legends, chronicles and so on. i just hope someone will take this task on to help with the GUI side for a little bit...even if it is to help me understand what i need to know to change stuff...lol im willing to do it if need be with help

[mathusalem]

Here is the area in the duel window I'm the most interested in at the moment



I don't know if it is actually linked to the other similar area on the other side of the play area, if the two make up only one bigger image. if the mana symbiols are pat of the image or if they are an other image on top


here is what I came up with for the deckbuilder buttons so far.

[gmzombie]

file is up on my site called DUELART.ZIP

[mathusalem]

Thanks there's almost everyting I was looking for