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[Onelastpill]

Hello,

Started to work on some AO website project. Extracting all database to XML was as easy as possible, thanks to Xyphos. But I couldn't find any working tool to get icons. Xyphos tool only extracts mesh/textures/whatever. And the old tool from Jayde (aodbresourcetool) that was supposed to do it seems quite broken (getting an instant "extract done" message when nothing happened)

So any suggestion on how to get those icons ? (I'm sure I missed something while searching and Xyphos/Vhab/... has a working tool for that !)

[Suicidal]

And the old tool from Jayde (aodbresourcetool) that was supposed to do it seems quite broken (getting an instant "extract done" message when nothing happened)

Seems like you use old version that doesn't support the new RDB?

[Onelastpill]

I guess, would you have any link to a recent/working version ?

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http://aodevs.com/index.php/topic,515.0.html

[Onelastpill]

Heh, not sure how I could miss it in releases forum   And thanks, worked perfectly !

[Xyphos]

My tools extracts icons, but ya gotta make your own plugin for that.
icons are referenced in the extract record dictionary tho.

reason I didn't make such a plugin is because the icons are stored in the RDB in PNG format without support for transparency, and all have a green background. all of my attempts to convert the PNG's to transparent GIF's have failed horribly;
GIF format only supports 256 colors and PNG supports ALOT more color then that.
when I tried to dither the colors down, I only got ugly results.

The icons shown on my website are from my own custom plugin, which extracts the icons then passes them on to jayde's DLL to convert to GIF.

I've browsed at his code in .net reflector, but all that seems a bit excessive.