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SCI Programming => Mega Tokyo SCI Archive => Topic started by: RJD on April 16, 2004, 08:11:30 PM

Title: SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: RJD on April 16, 2004, 08:11:30 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't there use to be a tool available on Brian's site that could take some views from VGA games?

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: Nychold on April 16, 2004, 10:25:56 PM

I think the only downloads directly from the SCI Studio homepage are for EGA, SCI0 tools only.  However, Brian was sending out beta copies of SCI Studio 4 (which had support for viewing/extracting VGA resources) to some people who donated, but I'm not sure if he still does.  As for other, non-SCI Studio tools, it's possible on his AGI/SCI page there are some tools, or links to tools for extraction of SCI VGA graphics, but I don't remember seeing any.

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: Chris Cromer on April 16, 2004, 10:28:55 PM

http://www.classicgaming.com/agisci/sciutil.shtml#ViewTools

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: Endroz on April 17, 2004, 02:46:58 AM

Hi,

you may also want to look at Vladimir Gneushev's web page, for his View View 2 program. Actually, it only allows to view, not to extract.

http://vagsoft.chat.ru/sci.html

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: RJD on April 17, 2004, 10:13:43 AM

Thanks for your help.  I'll look into these.

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: RJD on April 18, 2004, 01:29:42 PM

Neither ViewView 2 or Brians program work with SQ4 or the SQ1 Remake!  Any suggestions, or do I just have to wait?

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: Chris Cromer on April 18, 2004, 04:56:40 PM

Well I suggest wait for SCI Studio VGA... as that definately works on SQ4 and SQ1 remake.

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: dreamweaver on April 19, 2004, 07:28:34 AM

SciResDump work .
and sciunpack from freesci 0.61b works too.

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: Endroz on April 19, 2004, 05:06:12 PM

Quote from: RJD on April 18, 2004, 01:29:42 PM

Neither ViewView 2 or Brians program work with SQ4 or the SQ1 Remake!  Any suggestions, or do I just have to wait?

Try SCI Decoder EGA/VGA from this link, chances are it will work for SQ:  ???

http://www.classicgaming.com/agisci/sciutil.shtml#PackagesMultiResourceTools

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: RJD on April 23, 2004, 02:22:01 PM

Thanks guys.   I'll hafta try these.

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: RJD on May 09, 2004, 05:10:23 PM

Well...it's been a little while since we talked bout this but...I have found a way to extract some views from a vga game, but in Brian's VGA view editor the palatte was all black.  "No problem"  I thought, and I changed the pallatte, but it was still all black!  Any insight?  Am I being ridiculously stupid?  Do you need more info?  Etc?

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: Endroz on May 10, 2004, 04:24:17 AM

Maybe it's not just the palette being black... it doesn't recognize the picture format at all..  ???

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: RJD on May 10, 2004, 02:57:39 PM

I dumped it to a .v56 so it should work

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: Endroz on May 11, 2004, 04:51:00 AM

The problem is that the v56 format has been changed by Sierra over time. There are basically 4 different formats of v56 images, SCI1, SCI1.1, SCI32 and SCI32v3 all ship with slightly different formats. I'm afraid that VGA View Editor only supports the older SC1 format (Police Quest, Eco Quest and so on)

Title: Re:SCI VGA Graphics viewer thing
Post by: RJD on May 11, 2004, 02:12:28 PM

Well, that stinks.  I'll just have to wait for SCI STUDIO VGA.  Ah well, thanks anyways.