Splint
Champion
Since i have noticed a increased interest in people willing to create maps and sprites i thought it would be a good idea to post most of the tools we currently have available.
For mapping:
For mapping:
- (Recommended Text Editor) http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
- Pokémon Map Editor by DracoHouston: http://pokemon3d.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pokéditor
- JohtoMap: https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7r37lpemhvz3en/JohtoMap.rar
- Can edit GBC Roms of Gold and Silver used for exporting maps and tilesets use in conjunction with the Tile Extractor
- GIF Maker: http://dracohouston.net/pokemon/tools/GIF maker.zip
- Extracts .GIF into seperate frames
- PokeMonSpriteMaker: http://dracohouston.net/pokemon/tools/
- Creates the pokémon animation spritesheets explanation here:
- Paint.net (Recommended): http://www.getpaint.net/download.html#download
- (Recommended Plugin) http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/1964-grid-maker-plugin-v20/
- Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/
- XNA Formatter: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xnbbuilder/
- Creates XNB Files (Converts images to XNB)
- Requirements:
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (C# Edition)
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-2010-express
XNA Game Studio:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23714
- Creates XNB Files (Converts images to XNB)
- XNB Exporter: https://www.dropbox.com/s/htlkbmf8jw8sqrc/XNB Exporter.rar
- Exports XNB Files to images / sounds
- Tile Extractor (By Me): https://www.dropbox.com/s/0jcfp1h5oh9hvp7/Tile Extractor.rar
- Cuts up exported tile sets / maps from JohtoMap into 16 x 16 tiles
- Folder Creator (By Me): http://pokemon3d.net/forum/attachments/96/
- Explanation:
- Part 1
Part 2
- Create a folder structure as seen down below u may use your own names if u want however these are conveniently named
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- Go to http://sprites.pokecheck.org/?gen=3 or another site that has these .gif images however i made this tool based on the images of that website.
- Right click and save the webpage this will save the entire HTML page along with all the .gif
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- Now go into your root folder and open up the folder of the webpage u just saved.
- Select all images inside and cut and paste these into the correct folder
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- Delete the now empty website folder and html page
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- I am using google chrome which has a "Inspect Element" option build in this gave me a handy overview of the .gif on the website and they conveniently named the pokemon correctly
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- For those that do not use chrome or want another method u can always use another source like http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page
- Now start up the Folder Creator
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- U can use the select buttons or type in the textfields directly to set the correct folders for where the .gif are located.
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- Hit "Set Folders" if the Pokemons tab has been greyed out even though u filled it out.
- Next up is the pokemon tab here u will add the pokemon names and correct filename.
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- The filenames need to be without the .gif extension it is hardcoded in to look for these kind of files.
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- Once u have added the pokemons and correct file names hit the "Create Folders button" if all goes well u should receive a succesful prompt else it will tell u what has gone wrong.
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- Go into your output folder and there should now be folders named after the pokemon u entered.
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- Inside these folders should be these folders (back , back_s , front , front_s) and inside each of these folders should now be located the .gif
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- U can now continue the convert process using GIFMakerGUI and the PokemonSpriteMaker
