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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted September 25, 2011 01:42 PM |
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Kivo
Famous Hero
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posted September 25, 2011 01:52 PM |
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Edited by Kivo at 13:56, 25 Sep 2011.
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 Its uploaded without the lines now, but still its not in the original size. Sorry about confusing all of you!
I want the creatures to look as best as they can because this project is going to be popular all over the community as there is loads of homm2 fans. Iam really srious about it, so i need your opinions. Send you thoughts to me and I will try to make the creatures look better. 
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eddebaby
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posted September 25, 2011 06:55 PM |
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Pasting rgb images in a master rgb image, then indexing + create master palette is exactly same as creating a master palette from x rgb images then index to 256 colours, which I did. Somehow one of the images breaks the limit and changes others.
I was playing around with creating a blank template palette for H3 in Photoshop with the special colours already reserved. Maybe it could help with getting better results?
Here are the .ACT colour tables for 256-colour (or 224-colour if you want to ban the use of the last 32 colours). You can load these when you convert an image to indexed color.
[url=http://www.mediafire.com/file/m3x4vza3bo926wh/specialcolorsonly224.rar]224 colour[/url] [url=http://www.mediafire.com/file/qhgx77qjyk92498/specialcolorsonly256.rar]256 colour[/url]
This is what I got with 214 colours:
[url=http://www.mediafire.com/file/6wzc8ffb40q52mi/pegasus.rar]color table[/url]
Maybe with a bit more tweaking you can get the results you need? Don't forget to paste the image back again after converting to indexed colour. It always provides better results when it already has an index to work with.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted September 25, 2011 07:07 PM |
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This image on its own is similar to yours when going in deftool alone. It is when I compile several bmp with this one that things get complicate.
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eddebaby
Tavern Dweller
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posted September 25, 2011 07:16 PM |
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This image on its own is similar to yours when going in deftool alone. It is when I compile several bmp with this one that things get complicate.
If you don't mind sending your images - I will see what I can do.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted September 25, 2011 08:50 PM |
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eddebaby
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posted September 25, 2011 10:44 PM |
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Edited by eddebaby at 22:47, 25 Sep 2011.
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Ah, didn't realise you had so much colour variation in the images!
The best I could achieve:
BMPs, act, hdl and def: [url=http://www.mediafire.com/file/gzm67ddg5nvdbss/Salamandre.rar]download[/url]
My only other tip to get better results is to create individual tables of +/-50 colours for each frame. You could then emphasise the amount of the common colour table devoted to the each frame e.g. give 80-100 colours to the pegasus. As long as you end up with no more than 256 colours in total you can ensure 100% transition from Photoshop > def.
I suggest starting with 14.bmp (as it shares the most with the border) and getting that down to as few colours as possible. I got pretty good results just now testing with 20 colours.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted September 26, 2011 05:02 AM |
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eddebaby
Tavern Dweller
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posted September 27, 2011 11:20 AM |
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Another attempt:
110 colours spent on the fourth image and the frame, about 20 spent on the third image and the rest on the first. I think the results are better, but the second image has lost a lot of red.
Get the files: [url=http://www.mediafire.com/file/28k6qgw757ya8vd/Salamandre2.rar]here[/url]
Maybe with some pixel work you could simplify the images? Could be a lot of work though...
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted September 27, 2011 11:28 AM |
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted September 29, 2011 09:34 PM |
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Warmonger
Promising
Legendary Hero
fallen artist
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posted September 29, 2011 09:58 PM |
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Kivo
Famous Hero
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posted September 29, 2011 10:51 PM |
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Anyone knows how many frames are needed for each animation? I know its a noob question but I need to know as fast as possible :/. Btw, its for mister_kalu's project succession wars. I saw that the homm2 sprites he made didnt have so many frames as homm3 creatures have. Thanks !
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itsjustme
Promising
Known Hero
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posted September 30, 2011 12:41 PM |
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eddebaby
Tavern Dweller
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posted September 30, 2011 01:03 PM |
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Some new relics...
They look awesome. But what's that pit fiend doing to that centaur?
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Hero_of_Light
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted September 30, 2011 02:43 PM |
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They look awesome. But what's that pit fiend doing to that centaur?
LOL! Now I know why they carry whips!
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted September 30, 2011 02:57 PM |
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forum
Tavern Dweller
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posted October 11, 2011 10:50 PM |
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[url=http://www.mediafire.com/?aolzxlsbtstibsx]http://www.mediafire.com/?aolzxlsbtstibsx[/url]
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Avirosb
Promising
Legendary Hero
No longer on vacation
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posted October 14, 2011 09:51 AM |
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Nice one
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SolidCyrus
Hired Hero
aka Cyrus Annihilator
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posted November 01, 2011 06:40 PM |
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Congratz vladud2000, you have the best custom creature I ever saw for Heroes. I think you got the "right fit", they don't look odd in the game, but seens natural.
Some links are broken, could you re-upload these?
http://rghost.ru/14552851
http://rghost.ru/14579871
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Is anyone interessed in make a town based on Sanctuary (Heroes VI)?
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