Raw D2K Art

Level: 52

Contents of DATA.R8, as PNG8 with correct palette embedded[/url]

http://ijw.co.nz/d2kout.zip

Level: 32

Thanks!
I am wondering, do you know of a way to convert these graphics to CNC / RA color palettes? I know a lot of them are bigger than 24x24, but a lot of them aren't, and could be resized/recentered.

And are there any more data files from Dune2K with art in them?

Level: 48

Oh, now this is good. Thanks for these, now I won't have to scrounge around cutting and pasting existing C&C units together like some sort of low-budget Frankenstein's Army.

Level: 45

Already created the windtrap (or at least tried to). It worked in the dev mod "palettetest" (from git) if you rename it as powr.shp and add it like the MCV you can replace the power plant in RA. However transparency at the borders did not work well. I did not use the RA.Utility.exe because I did not understand how it worked (seems you need to arrange the .pngs in a picture using a graphics program and then tell the commandline tool the right properties. But I won't recommend trying XCC Mixer and SHPbuilder either.

I found http://ra.afraid.org/html/downloads/mods.html and extracted some .shps from some strange mod .mix files. The grey building animations looks a little adapted to RA. When I had a look at the original png files the Dune 2000 building animation is cracking out of the sand (even though you reinforced the ground with concrete plates...)

Edit: Removed the game files for copyright reasons.

Level: 45

You can put the PNG pieces together to prepare for RA.Utilities.exe --SHP:

Level: 45

However RA.Utility.exe fails:

Level: 45

I removed all the pre-converted SHPs of the original Dune 2000. For legal reasons I don't think we should supply ripped game files even though the game looks like abandonware. However my adapted RA.Utility.exe can now create SHPs from the Dune 2000 R8 game files. https://github.com/Mailaender/OpenRA/commit/db9a8c4aaa6c8df5af91dd7fc34b467e8eb8ff95

It works like this (on Linux):

Level: 150

Level: 45

Apart from the offset: the direction for moving vehicles is also wrong when I add the D2k trike or mcv to RA mod. Driving left and right backwards and hovering sidewards to the 45° angles. Mirroring the PNG won't help eather.

Level: 150

For some reason, they thought it appropriate to change the mapping between direction and frame. You will need to reverse and cycle the frame order, or (probably simpler in the long run) change the mapping used in the engine.

Level: 32

Are the offsets for each frame available somewhere in human-readable format?

Level: 48

Offsets for infantry frames is
OffsetX = frameWidth/2 - Width/2
OffsetY = frameHeight/2 - Height/2

Offset for vehicles and projectile frames is
OffsetX = frameWidth/2 - frameOffsetX
OffsetY = frameHeight/2 - frameOffsetY

Offset for buildings frames is
if (frameOffsetX < 0) { frameOffsetX = 0 - frameOffsetX; }
if (frameOffsetY < 0) { frameOffsetY = 0 - frameOffsetY; }
OffsetX = 0 + frameOffsetX
OffsetY = frameHeight - frameOffsetY

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Level: 45

Level: 150

The arrakis tileset was created with the OpenRA.TilesetBuilder tool.
Up until the last time I looked (about a year ago) it was never very well supported (most of the ui was unfinished and nonfunctional) and it relied on hardcoded parameters in the source. Looking at the current code, this doesn't appear to have changed. I believe that katzsmile was working on a successor at one point, but don't know what happened with it.