How do we extract sprites from Sierra games???

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Aussie Bloke · #1 Post by **Aussie Bloke** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:13 am

Hi all.

Seeing that I can't easily make characters and have to do it the hardarse way which would be time consuming and getting the proportions right will be so difficult, I was wondering if there's any way to extract the sprites from VGS Sierra games and modify them for my own purposes so I can make characters quicker?

I know with SCI and AGI I can open the older Sierra games and get the characters out of those but with AGS I've had buckleys chance of opening any of the VGA Sierra games.

Anyways if anyone can help I'd most appreciate it.

Cheers
Troy

Alias · #2 Post by **Alias** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:19 am

Taking screenshots of every frame from the game. Or give a donation to www.bripro.com and get a beta version of Sci Studio VGA. ;)

Aussie Bloke · #3 Post by **Aussie Bloke** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:15 am

Thanks for the advice though I've already tried that and it's a pain in the arse as I'm having difficulty getting all the animations in Roger Wilco's moves in Space Quest 1 VGA as I got to hit the print screen button at the exact right moment.

Oh well guess there's no easy way around it.

Alias · #4 Post by **Alias** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:23 am

Well you could spare a few bucks and just donate to SCI Studio VGa so it will just be a few clicks away. ;)

Aussie Bloke · #5 Post by **Aussie Bloke** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 3:23 am

I'd be happy to but I'm afraid I don't use credit card and if I did have a credit card I would not use it over the net because it is dangerous. I suppose I'll make a donation by money order but it would take at least a week to send money from Australia to Canada, but I'll think about it.

Another problem too is will they accept US dollars or does it have to be converted to Canadian dollars as Australia has this stupid system which I have to pay $20 fee to get Aussie dollars converted to other currencies. Australia only does Aussie and US dollars.

Aussie Bloke · #6 Post by **Aussie Bloke** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:54 am

I've decided to extract character sets from SCI made games. In this case I extracted Roger Wilco character set from Space Quest 3 and retoned the colours of the character set in Corel Photopaint using colour masking and replacing colours. So the flesh tones and hair looks a lot better on him now

! Also for the purple sleeves I've retoned the two purples replacing the magenta/mauve look with two shades of violet. As for the suit, I left the grey/dark grey tones the way they are as they look fine.

Anyways Roger looks more improved. Pity I can't upload the Roger character set picture to this site for yous to see.

Blackthorne519 · #7 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 7:57 am

I found an interesting sprite making program called "ProMotion". Give a google for it. You may dig it.

Bt