Post: #2

L2's character models are all high resolution, textured 3D images. You'd have to take screenshots of each animation frame 1 by 1 and convert them to a 2D UO file. Is L2 has some sort of editing programs out there, that may help. But you're still dealing with a completely different media format from it's core.

The work involved would be absolutely insane. You'll have much better luck converting other isometric 2D games like Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, Diablo and Diablo 2. It would just involve ripping their images into raw image files and importing them into a .vd file, or directly into the mul.

I haven't done much animation work though, so I can't fill you in on the exact details getting them into UO. But I know it involves either importing the animation frames 1 by 1, in animated gif format, or make a .vd to import.

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