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[Luckyowl]

I want to add graphics to races from aeramore expansion mod. How do I do it?

[Mediterraneo]

Try taking a look here: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Graphic_set

[Ulfarr]

Mediterraneo's link covers the how to make your graphic set usable by DF part.

If you also want to make a graphic set from scratch then you are going to need some kind of "advanced" image editing/creating software like Photoshop (paid) or Gimp (free, open source). You could technically use Paint but you can't add transparent backgrounds with it, if I am not mistaken.

[brolol.404]

Mediterraneo's link covers the how to make your graphic set usable by DF part.

If you also want to make a graphic set from scratch then you are going to need some kind of "advanced" image editing/creating software like Photoshop (paid) or Gimp (free, open source). You could technically use Paint but you can't add transparent backgrounds with it, if I am not mistaken.

Paint.NET does

[Wannabehero]

I'm going to second brolol.404 here. Paint.NET is an excellent program for very lightweight raster graphics editing (like drawing sprites).

I love GIMP, and it is considerably more powerful (more options) than Paint.NET, but Paint.NET is SUPER user friendly if you've never used a multi-layer image editor before.


As to the actual graphics files and their RAWs to get them to run in DF, follow Mediterraneo's link to the wiki, it completely covers it. If you have any further questions then, go ahead and ask us again.

[Meph]

True, even I made a few things in Paint.NET. Every time I only have access to a netbook with too few RAM to run Photoshop. XD

Anyway, did the wiki entry help, did you figure out how to add sprites for the new creatures?

[Luckyowl]

Anyway, did the wiki entry help, did you figure out how to add sprites for the new creatures?

Yes the wiki  helped me to understand how graphics are applied to objects. What I want to do is use either Gemset or CLA as starting point to add sprites to Aeramore mods because It's one my favorite mod that adds a lot of races. So can I take a copy of their .png edit it,  and then take their text file and rename it to the new creature will it recognize it as a diffrent .png?

[Meph]

Yes, sounds like you have it figured out. But you have to rename a lot of entries in the raw/graphics text files, as well as fit the page dimensions and sprite locations.