User talk:Butlerg

How to upload Weapon and Armor Icons, please?

Hello there, Butlerg. I'm curious as to how icons of weapons or armor (such as the Dagger of Perception) are extracted and then brought here. Thank you for your time reading my request. --Soul Surgeon 16:23, 18 June 2012 (PDT)

Most of the time, people usually take a picture in-game, using print screen. Then they paste into some picture editor, like Mircosoft paint. Use the select button to cut out the icon. A guide can be found here. Do note that DFO wiki rules are more relaxed than Mabi's. One "rule" is that we prefer to have the item unsealed; you know, that light blue tint? Don't feel bad if you make a mistake. When I first began uploading picture I found out you have to "shrink" the white space in paint. For example, this map has two versions. The first one has white space, while the second doesn't. Hoped I cleared things up. --Dfoplayer 17:47, 18 June 2012 (PDT)

I use DNF extractor to pull out sprites for the weapons and armor. It's easier than having to screenshot everything and crop them to the right size. Download the english version of DNF extractor, run it, and look for a line called 'files to be extracted' along the top. Click the button at the end (it looks like ... in my version) and find the directory for DFO. Look for the imagepacks 2 folder and you should see a bunch of files ending in .npk. All the image packs are named after what's inside, you'll get the hang of it fast. For example, sprite_item_avatar_atgunner.npk means there's male gunner avatar sprites inside. Select the .npk file you want for weapons and armor and click analysis file. You'll see a long list of weapon/armor sprite images. To find the right image compare them against what you see in the auction hall and in-game. They should go in order of increasing level, starting from level 1 items all the way to 65 weapons. When you find the sprites you want, select them, then click 'save image' and it'll be saved to the folder you listed on the line saying 'folder to be extracted to'. In that folder should now be a 38x38 or 40x40 weapon/armor sprite. From there you can upload it to here as a .jpg or .png picture file and name it something like Bloody_Dagger.png. Now you can link the weapon description for Blood Dagger to that picture using File:Blood Dagger.png. If the picture doesn't show up double check they both match up, it won't work if you're off by a letter or you're missing the colon : before the name. I haven't figured out how to add pictures of legacy items though, if you figure it out somehow please tell me! Hope this answered your question. --Butlerg 8:24, 18 June 2012 (PDT)

Oh wow. I must say, congratulations on digging deeper than I have on .npk files. So far, I have been taking titles from the files and their respective icons. I always thought that item_avatar was really avatars from item shop. Guess I was wrong...--Dfoplayer 22:10, 18 June 2012 (PDT)

How about maps? This wiki has dungeon maps that must get replaced. Imagine a first time player looking at an outdated map and taking it as true, only to find that it isn't true at all in the game. --Soul Surgeon 06:53, 19 June 2012 (PDT)

Not sure, but I'm sure its somewhere in the game files. The way I did it was taking pictures from in-game. As for replacing "fatigue" with "blitz points," there is an easy way to do it. However, the mediawiki tool is not implemented on this wiki. I'll try to contact the site administrator to see if he can implement it.--Dfoplayer 08:58, 19 June 2012 (PDT)

Do you mean the individual dungeon maps you see while in the dungeon? Then you're better off taking a screenshot like Dfoplayer suggested. There is a file with those images for going left, right, up, down, but I couldn't find any that show actual dungeon maps. These two files will come in handy though: sprite_worldmap.npk and sprite_worldmap_1.npk through sprite_worldmap_6.npk. When we get Innovation and the new dungeons that's where the background images you see when entering dungeons are and the separate cover art for each dungeon. --Butlerg 13:11, 19 June 2012 (PDT)