[Liberated] King Arthur's K.O.R.T. Deluxe, Ed altri 10 vecchi titoli MVP Software Opzioni

[The Ancient One]

Le tue traduzioni, rullo, sono sempre le più divertenti da seguire.

Io sono per elvir... ehm... per toglierlo e basta.

[Micartu]

Elvira.

No vabbè sia spada che vuoto vanno bene, segui l'istinto e scegli liberamente. L'importante era togliere quell'aborto di logo.

[Nyerguds]

Hey now, don't start mixing up games

The sword ones look good though

[TheRuler]

Grazie ragazzi

The sword ones look good though

Which one?
I personally prefer the one with the leftmost positioned sword. Although uncentered I think it better fits the image and the style in general. It looks like laied and I like the way it glimpses through the buttons.
I think it is better than nothing. Pun unintended.
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In-Game:
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[Nyerguds]

I like it! It kind of looks like it's leaning against the side.

[Micartu]

Rullo ho visto dei video del gioco, sai che comunque nonostante l'età più preistorica, tecnicamente Centurion secondo me è meglio?
Eppure le riviste dell'epoca non è che l'avessero proprio incensato.

[TheRuler]

Rullo ho visto dei video del gioco, sai che comunque nonostante l'età più preistorica, tecnicamente Centurion secondo me è meglio?
Eppure le riviste dell'epoca non è che l'avessero proprio incensato.

Sì, Sì. Centurion è un gran bel giochino. Professionale ed ottimamente confezionato. Manca di alcune cose che avrebbero potuto renderlo un capolavoro come una gestione più accurata degli ordini nelle battaglie.

KORT è nato come shareware e tutto sommato la versione a pagamento non aggiunge praticamente nulla. La grafica è approssimativa, il sonoro semplicissimo e le voci campionate con la testa dentro un secchio come in Fantozzi. Sono dei VOC e non ti nascondo che non mi dispiacerebbe rifare pure quelli in italiano.

Forse il confronto andrebbe fatto con Defender of The Crown, nato monco ma decisamente più completo di KORT.

[TheRuler]

Mapped the BMPs, Little endian ordered, not compressed.

CODICE

[File header]  (4Bytes)
WORD - Number of frames in the file
WORD - 0x1600 (Unknown)

[Frame header] (12Bytes)
WORD - Frame number
WORD - Width of the frame
WORD - Height of the frame
WORD - Width of the frame (repeated)
DWORD - Size of the following frame data block (actual 4bpp frame)

[Frame data] (variable size)
STRING - Size specified in previous DWORD.

[Following frames]

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[selven]

Spada pure per me

[Nyerguds]

There seems to be quite a lot of text inside MAIN.BMP... I guess we'll really need a converter for this.

I can probably create a command line tool for that in a few days, but I'm not sure if I'll have the time while I'm on holiday.

[TheRuler]

There seems to be quite a lot of text inside MAIN.BMP... I guess we'll really need a converter for this.

I can probably create a command line tool for that in a few days, but I'm not sure if I'll have the time while I'm on holiday.

That would be great. Take your time, no hurry.

There should also be the cursors in there. They decided to make a cursor 16x16 with text...

CLICK
TO
CONT

I would like to try to enlarge that icon and see if the engine groans. Maybe it accepts any given frame number.

[Nyerguds]

Here you go. Command line tool

http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/projec...mpConv/release/

Messaggio modificato da Nyerguds il 18 Aug 2017, 07:28

[TheRuler]

Here you go. Command line tool

You're a VOLCANO.
That's amazing, Maarten. Total localization of KORT is actually possible thanks to you.

[Nyerguds]

I'm actually using the code I wrote for this to add better frames support to the main tool. If you open a file which has a numeric part at the end it'll check if it's part of a range of frames, and will ask to open it as frames instead of as single file.

This will still need some work to actually be usable, though. But it should give a quick solution to the problem of converting from frames.

I'll use a similar method for converting a frames-type file to multiple images (asking to convert as multiple files), but first I still need to clean up some mess concerning the selection of palettes on frames. It currently gets locked unless you go to index -1 (the optional "overview" frame some framed types have), and doesn't refresh the palette correctly when loading a new file that also has frames.


By the way, I didn't see any cursors in there... hope it's not in the exe :-\

[edit]

Added slightly better command line handling and syntax help.
http://nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com/projec...mpConv/release/

CODICE

KORT sprite converter v1.0.1 - Created by Nyerguds

Syntax:
    KortBmpConv.exe [filename.bmp|file.png] [-p:palette.pal] [-o:outfile]
Input:
    filename.bmp: Input KORT BMP sprites file.
    file.png:     Input PNG file. Reads frames "file000.png" to "file999.png".
Output parameters: (optional)
    palette.pal:  6-bit 256-colour palette. Only for BMP to PNG.
                  If not given, a standard gray palette is generated.
    outfile:      Output filename.
                  Becomes "outfile000.png" to "outfile999.png" for BMP to PNG.
                  Becomes "outfile.bmp" for PNG to BMP.
                  If not given, the input name is used.

Messaggio modificato da Nyerguds il 18 Aug 2017, 07:52

[TheRuler]

Spada pure per me

Ottimo selven, grazie.
Mi sa che sceglierò proprio quest'ultima.

I'm actually using the code I wrote for this to add better frames support to the main tool. If you open a file which has a numeric part at the end it'll check if it's part of a range of frames, and will ask to open it as frames instead of as single file.

That would be pretty cool indeed. There are many games that share the same frame idea. I have at least 5 in mind, actually.
Great job Maarten, it works like a charm. I've almost finished to edit all the frames!
I've decided to polish them a bit.

By the way, I didn't see any cursors in there... hope it's not in the exe :-\

It is, and I figured out how to find it, during the night!
If it wouldn't be a bmp it would have been an icon, I thoght, similar to the ones we've found in elvira's icons.dat. And it was actually there!
I've converted the 16x16 pixels image into 16x2-bytes string and that's it:

CODICE

00006A694C494C496A6D0000E00EA004A004E0040000AE6EA44AE44AA46E0000

CLICK
TO
CONT

offset 0x0339B0


I'm working on it maarten, no need to make a tool.
The quest now is how to put "Premi il pulsante sinistro del mouse per continuare" into a 16x16 px image!
No way, so I have to shrink, but I've never liked the truncated original text either.
May be I will find a graphic symbol I could actually use to represent the action of clicking to continue.


le dimensioni massime del font dovrebbero essere di 4x4px e con meno il font fa schifo.

CODICE

CON
TI
NUA

forse? Che ne dite ciurma?

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[TheRuler]

Come vi sembra l'icona di "CONTINUA"? Idee?

CON
TINU
ARE

Riempirebbe di più l'icona ma sinceramente non mi piace la sillabazione.

PRO
SE
GUI

E' uguale a continua.

Ho dovuto adattare il font per riuscire ad infilare nei riquadri parole e frasi più larghe e soprattutto per non far sbordare la scritta quando lancillotto si trova a Nottingham, i due nomi combinati più lunghi: "Lancillotto(Nottingham)". Così facendo potrò anche aggiungere uno spazio prima del nome e prima della parentesi tonda aperta, per dare più grazia al testo.
Anche con il font più grande l'impaginazione inglese non è che fosse comunque perfetta.

Grafica della schermata di gioco terminata. Grazie Nyerguds!!!

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[Nyerguds]

Mapped the BMPs, Little endian ordered, not compressed.

It's actually 8bpp, and the repetition of the width is probably the stride; the amount of bytes to read for each line of image data. On a lot of image formats in 8bpp or higher it's often rounded up to the next multiple of 4 bytes, so then you have to be careful to skip those extra bytes at the end of each line when reading it, or you have too much data and it shifts a few pixels at the start of each new line.

Not sure why they bothered saving it in though, since, as you said, the values are always identical, meaning it's always optimised to exactly the width.

Messaggio modificato da Nyerguds il 20 Aug 2017, 15:48

[The Ancient One]

La scritta spezzata è proprio brutta, ma non è certo colpa tua.

Perché non metti un semplice "--->"?

[TheRuler]

Ci avevo pensato ed in grafica con 16x16px verrebbe anche una bella freccetta, ma ho creduto non fosse così immediato come la scritta CONTINUA.

Faccio qualche prova, grazie Ancient!

Not sure why they bothered saving it in though, since, as you said, the values are always identical, meaning it's always optimised to exactly the width.

thanks for the clarification Maarten. Precise as always.

[selven]

E un semplice
CLICk
PER
CONT?
Oppure
CLICk
PER
------>

[Micartu]

Prosegui?
Avanti?
--->

(sono solo proposte)

[TheRuler]

Ho provato le frecce ma non mi convincono per nulla. Farò altre prove e le posterò.


Qualcosa di più evocativo rispetto ad ATTACCANTI e DIFENSORI?
Già così sembra una partita di calcio... tenderei dunque ad escludere i sostantivi ATTACCO e DIFESA
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Assalitori - Difensori?
Offensiva - Difensiva?
Assedio - Controffensiva? (quest'ultimo è comunque troppo lungo, non potrei usarlo).
Aggressori - Aggrediti?

Mi fanno tutti schifo...

[selven]

Assaltatori - Protettori

[Nyerguds]

By the way, I didn't see any cursors in there... hope it's not in the exe :-\

It is, and I figured out how to find it, during the night!
If it wouldn't be a bmp it would have been an icon, I thoght, similar to the ones we've found in elvira's icons.dat. And it was actually there!
I've converted the 16x16 pixels image into 16x2-bytes string and that's it:

CODE

00006A694C494C496A6D0000E00EA004A004E0040000AE6EA44AE44AA46E0000

CLICK
TO
CONT

offset 0x0339B0

Hah, you constructed the byte range of the the image as 1-bit and just looked for that in the exe? That's a really clever bit of research

I wouldn't have expected it to be 1-bit, to be honest, since the game's normal cursor seems to have three colours: black, white and transparent...

[edit]
Oh, I see. The cursors are actually two 1-bit images each time; first the transparency layer and then the actual image.
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[/edit]

[edit again]
It combines into a 2-bit image with transparency, black, white and a red filter effect:
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[/edit again]

(btw, added a new version of the command line tool just because I'm a perfectionist who can't stand having bugs in his code... and using the frames-to-bmp conversion without specifying the supposedly-optional "-o:" parameter actually crashed the program )

Messaggio modificato da Nyerguds il 9 Jun 2021, 10:48

[TheRuler]

Clever? Bloody lucky!
It was that kind of morning you just wake up with a strange idea... Maybe just because you've eaten too much the evening before.


Good find Maarten. You eat bits at breakfast, definitely.
I swear the first times to have missed to use the -o: and experienced no crashes. But I could be wrong. V.1.0.0 anyway.