[WIP] Necrodome Resources

[Jimmy]

Is there a way you can post these sprites with a transparency? Or at least post the palette so that I can find how to change the transparent color.

[CaptainToenail]

This stuff is gold! Keep it up, I want more! That human guy alone looks like a good contender as the main character for my weapon mod, and the big fighter is an instant Hexen monster!

Edit: The black background makes some of the sprites almost completely unusable without a heap of unnecesary editing, can you please use a cyan or purple background from now on?

[janiform]

The black background makes some of the sprites almost completely unusable without a heap of unnecesary editing, can you please use a cyan or purple background from now on?

As Eriance said,

Then Use Background erase on MSPaint or magic wand all the black colors on any advanced image editor and delete it all. If the BG image from the game is black, then there should no no other black colors on the sprite itself.

XWE displays the sprites with black for transparency. That means that black will only be used for transparent areas. It is very easy to change this black to cyan using any editor from Paint to Photoshop. For proof, see the images I posted, which I assure you I did not spend much time on.

Is there a way you can post these sprites with a transparency? Or at least post the palette so that I can find how to change the transparent color.

Now this I can do! Here's a palette lmp. Will that work?

Necrodome Palette.zip

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I should be able to post some more this weekend!

[MartinHowe]

I can definitely use the rat; the standard "Doom Mod Rat" is the one Daniel ripped from Strife and it's looking a bit jaded...

[Enjay]

That means that black will only be used for transparent areas.

Unfortunately, that isn't true. I just looked at some of the sprites (the red robot thingy) and black (0,0,0) was being used for the background and quite a few pixels on the actual sprite too.

[janiform]

That means that black will only be used for transparent areas.

Unfortunately, that isn't true. I just looked at some of the sprites (the red robot thingy) and black (0,0,0) was being used for the background and quite a few pixels on the actual sprite too.

I just checked and, yeah, it looks like you're right. Sorry about that! I guess I didn't notice it when making the preview sheets. Unfortunately I don't know what to do about it. This is how XWE, which has pretty poor Necrodome support, displays the images. Any ideas?

[Virtue]

Ive been ripping some myself, Ive had to manually remove the black using mspaint and judging where the cutoff point would be on sprites that have black in them. Im working on somehting that will incorperate most of the enemies.

[janiform]

That's what I was afraid of. I'll probably still rip everything as a resource anyway. Care to share any details about this project? (Nice avatar, by the way.)

[neoworm]

Necrodome uses two black colors (index 000 and 001). One is for transparency and second is for solid black. To make the first one transparent/cyan you just need editor which can modify image palette.

EDIT:
Ok, its impossible since all images are ripped in true color. It doesnt matter which palette it uses as long as it uses palette, so for futher rips, dont convert images to trucolor. Never ever!

[Enjay]

Can you rip using XWE and not convert to true colour? I thought it always converted.

[neoworm]

Can you rip using XWE and not convert to true colour? I thought it always converted.

I donk know how it works when ripping from Necrodome, but when I rip some graphics from DooM/HeXen/Heretic Wads its always paletized 8-bit bmp.

[Virtue]

That's what I was afraid of. I'll probably still rip everything as a resource anyway. Care to share any details about this project? (Nice avatar, by the way.)

well its a monster wad with lotsa futuristic monsters (robots, mercenarys etc) and all new weapons as well

[janiform]

Unfortunately I don't see any way to change XWE's conversion method. Like I said, it's support for Necrodome is quite limited.

[neoworm]

...after a few experiments with Necrodome demo...

I modified palette lump inside NECRO.POD that the transparent index:000 color is Cyan now. Then i saved closed it and opened again and voilá, all exported sprites have cyan background now!

[Jimmy]

The problem with these sprites is that they have black color on the graphics as well as the background - this makes the "magic wand" method a little inconsistent and sometimes it shows quite clearly.