Shadow of the Beast III sprites

Hi there,

Recently I've been ripping some graphics from SOTB3. Thought I'd share what I've found so far...

Level 1 sprites

Level 1 tiles

Please note that some of these tiles have different (or several) color sets in game. SOTB3 seems to use a dynamic palette.

[dlfrsilver]

mmmh a dynamic palette ? excellent, and good to know !

[Joe Maroni]

i remember that banshee uses different amount of bitplanes for the tiles...never seen this before and never saw it again....

Tiles for levels 2,3,4 and 5.

[lordofchaos]

Originally Posted by Gnomon

Tiles for levels 2,3,4 and 5.

Fantastic work Gnomon! Would be amazing to see these used in some way, like a new platformer..I can dream

[lesta_smsc]

I'm always amazed by how the random sprites formulate a beautiful scene!

Originally Posted by lordofchaos

Fantastic work Gnomon! Would be amazing to see these used in some way, like a new platformer..I can dream

Thanks lordofchaos!
I'm currently attempting to port the game to HTML5 and eventually hope to add some new levels. Got map rendering working today - http://twitpic.com/bohmvz

[lordofchaos]

Originally Posted by Gnomon

Thanks lordofchaos!
I'm currently attempting to port the game to HTML5 and eventually hope to add some new levels. Got map rendering working today - http://twitpic.com/bohmvz

Looking good Gnomon Would love to see it in motion...If you ever need a musician somewhere down the line I would be happy to help.

[Galahad/FLT]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

mmmh a dynamic palette ? excellent, and good to know !

You make that comment like it was a rare thing on the Amiga?

[dlfrsilver]

there are not many games using dynamic palettes on amiga.

[lordofchaos]

A list would be nice

[Codetapper]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

You make that comment like it was a rare thing on the Amiga?

Dynamically changing palettes within a level is quite rare.

Joe Maroni and Cody Jarrett probably know a lot of the games that change palettes as when they rip the levels for the HOL maps, they would have to piece them together in sections. But most of the maps seem to be static 16 or 32 colour palettes the entire way.

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

there are not many games using dynamic palettes on amiga.

I agree. What you often get is a few horizontal strips of colour palette changes but that's about it. Some that I can think of:

SWIV - Read Ned Langman's interview in the SWIV section.

Bermuda Triangle - the palette changes slightly in various sections of the map. They did it really badly however as the entire green background instantly changes to brown when you move a pixel sideways etc.

Ruff'n'Tumble - From memory in the darker sections of the map the palette darkens slightly. (But that's just darkening everything rather than changing them).

Originally Posted by lordofchaos

Looking good Gnomon Would love to see it in motion...If you ever need a musician somewhere down the line I would be happy to help.

Wow, thank you for the offer LOC!
I'll host the project online at some point so you can all have a play. But I need to make sure it works on all the popular browsers first!

Originally Posted by Codetapper

What you often get is a few horizontal strips of colour palette changes but that's about it.

I suspect that's the technique used in SOTB3 (similar to copperbars?). Most of the levels have one or two colours in the palette assigned for this purpose.

[dlfrsilver]

I add golden axe amiga, which is using 2 different palettes during level 1.

Pang is another one. there should be others

[Joe Maroni]

one of the most amazing effects of changing palette during gameplay is lionheart in my opinion....

e.g. swamp level. the bitmaps (bobs/blitter objects) just use a depth of 3 bitplanes (2^3 = 8 colors). but screen output shows a mixture of copperlist and bobs.
look at the difference between original memory stored map with screenshot:

screenshot:
http://hol.abime.net/hol_popup_pictu...jRSMFE9&zoom=1

map:
http://hol.abime.net/hol_popup_pictu...FIwUT0=&zoom=2

[lordofchaos]

Originally Posted by Joe Maroni

one of the most amazing effects of changing palette during gameplay is lionheart in my opinion....

e.g. swamp level. the bitmaps (bobs/blitter objects) just use a depth of 3 bitplanes (2^3 = 8 colors). but screen output shows a mixture of copperlist and bobs.
look at the difference between original memory stored map with screenshot:

screenshot:
http://hol.abime.net/hol_popup_pictu...jRSMFE9&zoom=1

map:
http://hol.abime.net/hol_popup_pictu...FIwUT0=&zoom=2

Wow I totally forgot about these maps on HOL I'm curious to why they are watermarked with the HOL logo though? I would love to use some of these bitmaps minus the watermark for a video project if I knew whom to ask

[Joe Maroni]

we watermarked them because we don´t like it if other game databases use our work without permission.
what maps do you like to have "unmarked" ? i could recreate them our you simply ask RCK if he could send them to you..