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(DIR) Post #AkF7dFWoomy1FrJ9Jg by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-24T03:24:03Z
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OKAY SO this is what Heroes of Might and Magic 3 looks like. but how do they do the dialogue boxes?
(DIR) Post #AkF7ikGzw9vc3XWpV2 by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-24T03:24:42Z
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well H3BITMAP.LOD contains DiBoxBck.PCX which is the background, which is simply tiled across it.But the borders... those are tricky.
(DIR) Post #AkF7ouFnk3wskRuGfY by xorowl@fog.highspirits.games
2024-07-24T03:25:52Z
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@foone this game holds a special place in my heart, this should be fascinating 🍿
(DIR) Post #AkF7vF7Z4TsFCi4jtQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-24T03:27:31Z
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so it turns out h3sprite.lod (which contains things like in-game sprites and buildings) also has an animation, which looks like this when you unroll the frames. BUT it's only in blue.
(DIR) Post #AkF81ZXg3hgIHDJ81A by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-24T03:29:01Z
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So this game only runs in 16-bit color mode, BUT this image is paletted. And what does the palette look like? This! All the blue is in the last 32 colors.
(DIR) Post #AkF88yQRwPd5TiSKye by viraptor@cyberplace.social
2024-07-24T03:29:44Z
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@foone chances of a palette swap increasing?
(DIR) Post #AkF8K22kpYHhsse6Hg by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-24T03:30:37Z
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And the H3BITMAP.LOD file also contains PLAYERS.PAL:This palette is never applied directly. Instead, 32-color long chunks get overwritten over the dialogbox animation's last 32 colors. Then it can show dialog boxes for each of the 8 players.
(DIR) Post #AkF8YWLaxSvnvMMpKC by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-24T03:31:49Z
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So yeah. I'm gonna have to do a bunch of manual palette copy-pasting or write some scripts, to generate all 8 variations of the dialog box
(DIR) Post #AkF9ZpaX0S2rqIXg24 by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-24T03:46:09Z
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done. applied all 8 palettes
(DIR) Post #AkFA6YTbeF6OKNuIQy by lachlan@mastodon.social
2024-07-24T03:52:26Z
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@foone ... now I want to boot up HOMM3.Was pleased with getting it and the HD mod to work on Wine last week
(DIR) Post #AkFBmL8riR4l5Wh60W by crobbler@mastodon.social
2024-07-24T04:11:11Z
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@foone I love this leathery texture. Reminds me of the beautiful UI from the 90s Scrabble PC game.
(DIR) Post #AkFDhmPv51dg8mcmA4 by tang0008@mastodon.social
2024-07-24T04:32:31Z
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@foone this is gonna get death generated huh
(DIR) Post #AkFDoTBOzTc0Vw1XeK by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-24T04:34:03Z
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@tang0008 hopefully!
(DIR) Post #AkFDyYqSnEoyyH2evI by tang0008@mastodon.social
2024-07-24T04:35:11Z
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@foone you love to see it
(DIR) Post #AkFGNBMHSB4NHAnAjw by soviut@hachyderm.io
2024-07-24T05:02:43Z
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@foone Cool! These are often called 9-slices for obvious reasons.
(DIR) Post #AkFLNDCJ7CT4kbxcsS by gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-07-24T05:57:50Z
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@foone did you know that's also how border-image work in CSS?
(DIR) Post #AkFLpdYCjCvualkzdQ by th@social.v.st
2024-07-24T06:03:10Z
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@foone can you make it more baroque?
(DIR) Post #AkFV9L6fuZLClgLlVg by zei@mastodon.social
2024-07-24T07:48:13Z
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@foone I love HoMM2 and 3 so much, now I really want to play this game again.
(DIR) Post #AkFVOag8IWCrPJCvTc by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-24T07:50:48Z
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@zei yeah! HOMM2 and HOMM3 are games where I periodically go WAIT A MINUTE... why am I not playing them right now? and have to go find my VM with them installed
(DIR) Post #AkFWNMqMLnGaAAyIXw by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-24T08:01:14Z
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@Lili @zei oh I know. but I'm a retrocomputerist, so I like to play games on win9x VMs or an actual windows 98 machine
(DIR) Post #AkFpWGV9CL06EF0R3g by ezarowny@file-explorers.club
2024-07-24T11:36:03Z
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@foone oh am I here for this one 🐎
(DIR) Post #AkG4RIiz0HcezKZJ4q by ppxl@social.tchncs.de
2024-07-24T14:23:25Z
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@foone nice thread you got there. Now I want to play HoM&M again