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Offline deckarep

King?s Quest 6 - New Hires Portrait hack (prototype)
« on: September 08, 2023, 01:57:39 AM »
Hello friends,

Awhile back ago I posted a quick and dirty script written in Go to extract the RAVE file format file images from the King?s Quest 6 Hires portrait files which I posted in the forum.

All that did was allow one to view the raw image PNG files which is nice but don't do much.

Well can we go in the opposite direction and come up with a way to encode all new character portraits?

Can we change, modify or enrich the palettes of these portraits?

Can we introduce all the necessary voice graphics to represent character talking animations?

Here's the beginnings of a proof-of-concept to answer this question.

Much more details in the YouTube description.

Cheers,

-deckarep

I'll likely open source whatever hacked together tools I come up with.


« Last Edit: September 08, 2023, 03:38:59 AM by Kawa »



Offline deckarep

Re: King?s Quest 6 - New Hires Portrait hack (prototype)
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2023, 02:07:45 AM »
Not sure if I'm doing something wrong but can a moderator review the original message and approve the link in it so it shows up. Thank you!

Offline Kawa

Re: King?s Quest 6 - New Hires Portrait hack (prototype)
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2023, 03:40:28 AM »
It's not a matter of moderator review, it's Youtube embeds being silly. Use the full URL, not the youtu.be link

Offline deckarep

Re: King?s Quest 6 - New Hires Portrait hack (prototype)
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2023, 11:59:29 AM »
Ah, thank you @Kawa and thanks for adjusting the link.

Offline deckarep

Re: King?s Quest 6 - New Hires Portrait hack (prototype)
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2023, 07:24:32 PM »
As of this afternoon, I now have a fully working script that can fully re-encode an entirely new/fresh talking animated character with all the relevant mouth movements that is fully lip-synced.

I need to create an example that actually looks good now.

To be continued?

Offline deckarep

Re: King?s Quest 6 - New Hires Portrait hack (prototype)
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2023, 01:47:19 AM »
And it works:

- Started with King Graham because his RAVE portrait is simpler
- Swapped it with Alex (which is why he's representing the wrong character but it's way easier to test)
- Character generated and hacked together with Midjourney + Pixelmator (Mac)
- Color palette needs some serious work, it looks muddy but that is an artistic issue and I'm no artist
- My script generates a whole new GRAHAM.BIN file that is fully animated, lip-synced and cues exactly to whatever dialogue represented on screen.

Let me know if anyone wants to try this file in their game. I only tested on ScummVM.

Time for sleep.

Offline deckarep

Re: King's Quest 6 - New Hires Portrait hack (prototype)
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2023, 03:50:09 PM »
Here's the code if anyones interested in the secret sauce to make this work:

https://github.com/deckarep/SCI-Rave-Hires-Portrait-Encoder


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