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 /  /_\  \  /     \ |  | / ___\\__  \    ______   /  \ /  \  /  _ \  /    \\   __\|  |  \ 
/    |    \|  Y Y  \|  |/ /_/  >/ __ \_ /_____/  /    Y    \(  <_> )|   |  \|  |  |   Y  \
\____|__  /|__|_|  /|__|\___  /(____  /          \____|__  / \____/ |___|  /|__|  |___|  /
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June 16th, 2017


[Angry Zombie]
Today's blog is going to be relatively short, as it has been mostly a lazy day - well lazier day. I did not get started until about an hour ago or so, and I decided to try to find a way to view game data.

To start with I would go with Eye of the Beholder, when looking through the data files, I noticed a lot of them were cps extension, I'm not really familiar with that one. I did a bit of a search, and came upon a viewer UnCPS, which will display the images and save them to RAW data - but I was unsure how to view that raw data. Instead, I used SGraB, another tool. This one is a screen grabber, the best I have found so far.

Sooo, essentially, I opened the image in uncps, and took a screenshot of it with sgrab, then I loaded it into PPaint, added a little flaire, and saved it in PAL mode.. lol

This is just one of the extractors out there, I'm gooing to look for a few more in the future, to be able to extract even more images in the future. I'm looking forward to being able to animate a few of these characters in the future.

[Angry Zombies]


Above you can see the image, before I cut out one frame of him, enlarged it, and added a bit of text. You can see how I could animate it, however, it seems there may be a few frames missing. I'll have to look more into it later on.

[Alpha Drow]


This is going to be too much fun.

Other than that, my time was mostly spent goofing around with PPaint, and trying to draw things. No doubt, I am a horrible artists, but perhaps with some practice I could get better. Only time will tell.



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