RA DOS infantry

Tyler Adams · Post by **Tyler Adams** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 4:32 pm

The RA DOS infantry sprites looked alot better (plus more to scale) than the RA95 infantry ORA uses, (which were resized (horrifically) for RA95) and I was hoping someone'd already ported them over to ORA. Anyone know anything about that? Or how I could port them myself?

Also, ohi, long time no see, I have returned, etc.

BaronOfStuff · Post by **BaronOfStuff** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:19 pm

If you have the tools and original RA files, you can extract all the infantry SHP's as individual files (SHP format of course) and throw them in the 'bits' folder.

I do this myself, as the resized infantry just look... shit. And they're misleading, regarding the units' on-screen size compared to their in-game selection boundaries.

The only problem will be with new infantry that ORA uses (at the moment, this is only the Sniper); obviously, these won't have original DOS graphics, and will look freakishly huge next to any DOS SHP's.

Tyler Adams · Post by **Tyler Adams** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:03 pm

That's it? Just rip em from RA1 + drop them in the folder? Awesome. I might actually do that and remake a sprite for the sniper.

BaronOfStuff · Post by **BaronOfStuff** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:00 pm

Yep, that's all there is to it. The biggest obstacle is being sure to rip every SHP necessary to avoid having the occasional appearance of a lumpy, misshapen mutant soldier blight the battlefield. It's also probably quite simple to resize the Sniper unit too, if my bright idea works as intended (it probably won't though).

Tyler Adams · Post by **Tyler Adams** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:16 pm

Infantry can be scaled up, but I'm not sure it'd scale down and look pretty.

TiberFCSL · Post by **TiberFCSL** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:22 pm

There's a RA small infantry pack at C&C Communications Center, but I don't know if it works with OpenRA. Here's que link:
http://cnc-comm.com/community/index.php ... ew;down=12

I hope it helps!