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Wed, 18 August 2004 22:01

Wodan

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Location: Antwerp, Belgium

I understand the terminology can cause some confusing.

Each character has a set of sti files in different sizes. (The set of 7 I mention, although not all characters need all 7 files)
Every sti file in that set has 8 different images in it.
Out of those 8, the first is fixed in size and determines the size of the sti, the 7 following images
are the eye and mouth details and shouldn't be bigger than respectively +/- the eye and the mouth region.(see below).

So, if you have an npc, it would use 3 bXX.sti's, meaning his face in 3 different sizes, with every face having 7 eye and mouth details.

Let's say, open ja2/data/faces/B165.sti
That is the 90x100 face of Sparks. (a guy you should only encounter in the Sci-fi version of UC,
which isn't released yet)

Anyways, the sti consists of 8 images:
0: 90x100 total face image
1: 46x43 eye detail
2: 46x43 eye detail
3: 46x43 eye detail
4: 46x43 eye detail
5: 47x36 mouth detail
6: 47x36 mouth detail
7: 47x36 mouth detail

You will see the same structure for all face images, with the exception of the 106x122 bigface image. (used in profile and AIM, MERC page)

Of course, for another pic, the sizes of mouth and eye details might be slightly different.
Now open Proedit and check the eye detail offset (1,2,3 and 4)
an mouth image offset (5, 6 and 7). They should be eye 23,31 and mouth: 40.67. If so, you have a working pic. Voila.

For smaller sti's, yes, the images might become tiny. This is after all a 640x480 res game you know.
But as I said before, i think the game only actually uses the moving eye and mouth images for a few sti sizes,
and I forgot which ones. 90x100 is one of them for sure, but maybe the smallest ones don't have moving mouths
(although the images/sti's are made to be so in the original game. Maybe the dev's never got to implementing it)

Hope this answers your question...

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		How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Wodan on Thu, 12 August 2004 06:17
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Tue, 17 August 2004 18:58
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Wodan on Tue, 17 August 2004 22:04
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Wed, 18 August 2004 04:03
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Wodan on Wed, 18 August 2004 22:01
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Wed, 18 August 2004 22:55
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Wodan on Mon, 23 August 2004 22:24
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Tue, 24 August 2004 01:21
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Wodan on Tue, 24 August 2004 22:49
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Batman on Wed, 25 August 2004 00:46
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Wed, 25 August 2004 01:11
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Wed, 25 August 2004 09:40
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Wodan on Wed, 25 August 2004 22:35
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Thu, 26 August 2004 00:13
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: ramfall on Thu, 26 August 2004 00:29
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Thu, 26 August 2004 01:01
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Fri, 27 August 2004 01:57
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Wodan on Fri, 27 August 2004 05:17
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Sun, 29 August 2004 14:57
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Balrog on Mon, 30 August 2004 13:35
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Wodan on Wed, 01 September 2004 17:56
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Balrog on Thu, 02 September 2004 10:38
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Thu, 02 September 2004 13:47
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Wodan on Fri, 03 September 2004 01:01
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Balrog on Fri, 03 September 2004 14:01
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Khor1255 on Fri, 03 September 2004 15:11
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Balrog on Fri, 03 September 2004 16:08
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Wodan on Fri, 03 September 2004 21:50
		Re: How to create face sti's [the basic tutorial] By: Wodan on Wed, 01 December 2004 19:56

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