Resized Elephant of Balam-Agab

[Bungus]

https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/empires-of-the-east-ayutthaya.26532/

https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/empires-of-the-east-toungoo.26610/

Anyone know if anyone did a resize of some of the awesome elephants in these unit packs?
Cavalry, cannon elephants, and they're all very, very well done, but so large they take up two tiles and dwarf cities.

 

[ST4LIN]

resizing is easy to do, you can even use a simple free image viewer/editor like irfanview, since it can handle .pcx files
https://www.irfanview.com/
of course you'll need FLICster to extract and recreate the .flc files. LMK if you want me to explain so you can resize them yourself.

 

[Bungus]

I did it regularly ten+ years back, but the result was never satisfactory. For instance, a spear or lance would lose its straightness as pixels were removed at random intervals along its length. A leg or arm might, in the default, might "pop" between one and two or three pixels in width as the unit swayed. Often grainy. I started with flc extraction using flcster or flcedit, but I forgot what I did from there.
So hell yeah, whatcha got? Can these issues be avoided?

 

[Wotan49]

shrunken Ayutthaya Elephant Gunner
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/shrunken-ayutthaya-elephant-gunner.27877/

reduced from 236 to 200 image size
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/shrunken-ayutthaya-elephant-gunner.27877/updates
Ps Update Attack only 180 size
Created by Balam-Agab

reduced by Wotan49

Best Regards
Wotan49

 

[Bungus]

That's outstanding, thanks! A good unit to demo, because of the long polearm. Ran through the animations on the 180 (pretty spot on with the Firaxis war elephant) in flcedit, and there's no kinks or degradation noticeable to my discerning eye. What did you use? Irfanview?

 

[Wotan49]

Bungus
PaintShop Pro version 10 is my Program
has still run on Vista 64, now on Windows XP as the second partition.

with best regards
from Wotan49

 

[Wotan49]

shrunken Toungoo Elephant
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/shrunken-toungoo-elephant.27879/

Created by Balam-Agab

reduced by Wotan49

Best Regards
Wotan49

 

[Bungus]

That's awesome. Got windows 10, Ill give it a shot on there, or try Gimp (which is always an exercise in frustration. Photoshop died with my desktop, no doubt that would have some great tools for this)

Should I be optimistic about the results on enlargement? If I make the time investment into learning, there's a whole batallion's worth of paperdoll units south of the 5'4" mark.
Btw I dont know if Balam Agab used existing models or animations, but his elephants are the tits. Specially the Ayutthayah gunman leaning forward on the mount to fire, knee up.

 

[Vuldacon]

A Good Tool for Resizing and especially for enlarging is FastStone Photo Resizer because it can enlarge without making the pixels larger.
Works on XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x and Windows 10
https://www.faststone.org/index.htm

 

[Bungus]

shrunken Ayutthaya Elephant Gunner
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/shrunken-ayutthaya-elephant-gunner.27877/
View attachment 537797 reduced from 236 to 200 image size

Created by Balam-Agab

reduced by Wotan49

Best Regards
Wotan49

Just got ithe 180 px Ayutthaya EPhant going in game. 1 Snafu, the east and west attack animations are reversed (so he turns around). I supposed a worked-up elephant fart could be pretty deadly in its own right tho

 

[Bungus]

A Good Tool for Resizing and especially for enlarging is FastStone Photo Resizer because it can enlarge without making the pixels larger.
Works on XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x and Windows 10
https://www.faststone.org/index.htm

I'll give that one a shot. You just export the flc to a jpeg or pcx open in fast stone and resize?

 

[Vuldacon]

The Requirements are explained... simple

 

[Wotan49]

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/resized-elephant-of-balam-agab.650518/#post-15583693
shrunken Ayutthaya Elephant Gunner Version 1.1
Created by Balam-Agab
reduced
by Wotan49

to Update Attack.flc

with best regards
Wotan49

 

[Wotan49]

another elephant

shrunken Toungoo Elephant Artillery

https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/shrunken-toungoo-elephant-artillery.27880/


Created by Balam-Agab

reduced
by Wotan49

 

[Wolfhart]

That's some great work you've done there, Wotan49! It's among the best quality shrink work I've seen on this site
I've always wondered how the poor animals could stand the sound and shock wave of having a cannon fired above it...

 

[Wotan49]

shrunken Ayutthaya Elephant

https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/shrunken-ayutthaya-elephant.27881/

Created by Balam-Agab

reduced
by Wotan49

 

[Bungus]

another elephant

shrunken Toungoo Elephant Artillery

https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/shrunken-toungoo-elephant-artillery.27880/


Created by Balam-Agab

reduced
by Wotan49

Cool beans thanks again. Now I gotta pick which one to use in the epic game, as only India and Siam could arguably use em. Which, if you're looking for another elephant to downsize..
https://forums.civfanatics.com/resources/empires-of-the-east-early-mughals.23465/

That's some great work you've done there, Wotan49! It's among the best quality shrink work I've seen on this site
I've always wondered how the poor animals could stand the sound and shock wave of having a cannon fired above it...

I wonder whether elephant were actually equipped with culverns and like

EDIT: FOUND LINK TO MUGHAL ELEPHANT CAV

 

[Bungus]

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/resized-elephant-of-balam-agab.650518/#post-15583693
shrunken Ayutthaya Elephant Gunner Version 1.1
Created by Balam-Agab
reduced
by Wotan49

to Update Attack.flc

with best regards
Wotan49

Heads up, the west-east attack animations are still backwards

 

[Wotan49]

yes was so, new 1.5MB
was uploaded wrong file

I wish you much fun with the pachyderms (elephants)

Greeting
Wotan49
Old Man

 

[Bungus]

Thanks buddy. I will rent out the pachyderms for birthday parties

And success! It works great. Time to start taking bookings