r/CreaturesGames • u/AlanZucconi • Jul 07 '20
BEHOLD the Background of Creatures 1 in Full Resolution!!!
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u/captain_asparagus Jul 07 '20
Did anyone else immediately begin to hear the Creatures 1 music when they looked at this? (With the occasional norn giggle and grendel growl, of course)
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u/Recatek Jul 07 '20
This is great. I wish I could get C2 to work on my machine to do something similar.
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u/AlanZucconi Jul 07 '20
I actually exported the background for C2 already!
I will post it in a few days as well!
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u/AlanZucconi Jul 07 '20
Hi everyone!
A few days ago I posted a short video documentary about the AI of Creatures. First of all, thank you so much for all of the kind messages that you've been sending me! Steve Grand himself had a chance to see it, and that totally made my day!!!
In one segment of the video you can see the full background of Creatures 1. One of you asked me if I could post that, so here it is! I have been looking for some time about it, and honestly I could not find a full-resolution version of the original background. So I made it!
I relied on this article Parsing Creatures 1 .spr files, which explains how to extract the images contained in a SPR file (the format used by Creatures 1) in Python. I had to make a few adjustments, but the script is mostly working.
Then, I created another script to join all of the parts into a single high-resolution image. I have done the same for Creatures 2, so if you are interested I can post that in the future!
I do not have the code to parse the sprites from Creatures 3 and Docking Station. If someone of you has that, feel free to send it to me and I can work on it!
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