Sprite ripping help needed

[tavenknaughtlin]

I'm attempting to create a dinosaur-themed nation mod. I'm not really a sprite-artist at all but I've noticed a few mods that have sprites that taken from other images and resized/adjusted to work in Doms5. I've attempted to do this myself, with varying levels of success.

What is the best method of doing this, and what program would be best to use? I've been using GIMP but it's very slow-going, and resizing doesn't retain as much detail as I've seen in other mods that do this.

[Mormacil]

1) Make sure your software resizes using Nearest Neighbor instead of Bicubic or Bilenear. I don't use GIMP myself but I assume it has a setting like that within the software.

2) Reduce colors, the more colors you have in the source image the muddier the shrunken image becomes. Ideally you trace the image on another layer and minimize colors. Like you give every bit a flat color with a highlight and a shadow. Pink for the skin, blue for the pants etc. The easiest way to do this is using a posterize effect but that might give you colors you're not 100% happy with.

3) Give this app a go: http://pixelatorapp.com/. It does basically all the things I mentioned above automatically.

[onard2]

The new #drawsize command is a godsend for ripping images. You can resize the original image to 196x196 pixels which shouldn't be blurred at all then use #drawsize to make it smaller in-game (since a 196x196 would be pretty huge in-game), but it'll keep a much better definition than if you resized the image manually whitout need of any extra complicated steps.

Also remember that the image's sizes must be multiples of 32. So 64x64, 128 x96, and so on. Otherwise the game won't be able to properly load it and you'll get a worst quality. Note that you can just expand/reduce an image's borders whitout changing the pic itself to get a proper size.