Quake Sprite Files

[Baker]

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[MDave]

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[goldenboy]

I consider these things barriers to modding.

They are.

I want to make some sprites for something, and it's just a horror. Same for the HUD files, conchars etc.

Making it all PCX would be great.

Not to mention that PCX is crossplatform, while lmp and spr aren't really.

ZIP files instead of pak/pk3 would be much appreciated, too.

[goldenboy]

However, let's not forget that some mods expressively load .spr files from the QC, for example Remake includes func_emitter which expects a path like progs/blah.spr. Probably the same for Quoth, with its colored globes etc.

So backwards compatibility would be a problem.

If sprites were pcx files renamed to spr, that would probably work.

And, yeah, they can be animated like gifs, ie have multiple frames. Hm, perhaps you could just use gif.

[Baker]

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[leileilol]

I propose someone to write a GUI win32 program that can edit spr, .wad, and .lmp.

[Willem]

I'm working on an OSX program that will do that. I'm turning my ToeTag level editor into a Quake editing suite. It will include a level editor, WAD editor, PAK editor and others. I'm hoping for a model editor, sprite editor and QuakeC editor eventually as well. A whole "make a mod" suite of applications.

Of course, as I said, it's all OSX. I'll be releasing the source code though, as I have been with the level editor so far.

[Baker]