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Thagoras

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OSI plant replacements - A collection of plant sprites to replace the stock OSI plants

These are from a 28 year old game...which has been labeled abandoned. I still have the CD.
I'm surprised nobody has liberated these before now. I had to do everything manually...including adjusting the colors and modifying the sprites to work with UO.
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A note about the pussy willow: The original sprite just had the trunk and the white fuzzy blooms....I had to add the leaves. Because...
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Zavreyon said:
Are these from SimPark?
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Yes they are.
I didn't want to say where they were pulled from because I enjoy when people try to guess the source.
It was a challenge because I didn't have a way to extract them from the data files so I was forced to do screen captures...and remove all superfluous pixels. I actually spent a number of months (not constantly because I have other things to work on) trying to figure out how to extract them without losing the pixels on the trees, shrubs and grasses. Once I figured out the best method, it all came pretty quickly.
SimSafari was just as much of a challenge...but those turned out okay too.
The hardest for both are the grasses. The ISO ratio is the more commonly used one (with skewed diamonds rather than squares) so adjusting that requires serious editing.
 
I suspected from the screens, and then when I saw some of the names it confirmed. I spent a good bit of my youth playing SimPark on the school computers. They do fit UO quite well, thank you for your efforts.
 
Zavreyon said:
I suspected from the screens, and then when I saw some of the names it confirmed. I spent a good bit of my youth playing SimPark on the school computers. They do fit UO quite well, thank you for your efforts.
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I actually got the game when I was going through a Simulator kick...some time in the early 2000's. And then I didn't put the pieces together until I really got into modifying UO. I kept scouring internet looking for a way to extract the sprites or a site where someone already had, but found nothing. But I wanted those trees. So I captured them and just sat on them...for years (yeah, I said months...but it was months when I decided it was time to try to figure something out).

It was nice that their scale didn't need to be adjusted, so they could keep their original look. This first set were just the ones that could easily replace the OSI trees and plants. There are more sprites but it would require a map editor to add them...unless you add them as objects in game, I guess.
 
Looks good. One of the free and easy tools I have used in the past to help with pixels removal is ezgif.com makes things so much easier.
 
Thagoras said:
I usually just use PaintShop Pro 5 and do a color swap with the tolerance opened up to 7.
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Ya i used to have pro 7 that had a key hack lol lost that years ago so use the free site now so dont have to pay money for anything lol but exgif has some really usrful options works really really well
 
They look great, and fits the UO style well!
At first I thought they were from Arcanum, as the style is very similar.
I am not familiar with the game you have these from, but it looks like it is only the plants that can be used in UO, as the objects etc. doesn’t have the same perspective. It’s the same with Arcanum.
The only old game I have found that uses the same perspective as UO is the game Nox. It is possible to rip the graphics from that game, but it does require taking screenshots, but it has a program that lets you view the graphics on a black background at least.
 
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