Complete Dreamworld SVG collection

[Naramsim]

Currently our SVG sprites for the Dreamworld art is limited. Official artwork is present from Pokemon with id 1 through 649.

Newer Pokemon artwork is available only as PNG.

We could scrape those PNG off https://www.centropkmn.com/pokes/global-link/ and convert them to SVG.

@gedw99

[Naramsim]

You can start working locally and do some tests. When you have some images you can submit them here through PRs and I'll try to review them

[FallenDeity]

@gedw99 do you have an optimised converter code for png to svg? i scraped all the dreamworld sprites of the above site and bulbapedia but converting them seems a bit hard, the sizes after conversion are a bit too large. need a way to optimise the svgs

[Naramsim]

I don't have any. @gedw99 did you work on it by any chance?

[FallenDeity]

@Naramsim

PNG

650	810

SVG

650	810

Is it acceptable?

https://github.com/migvel/color_trace used this for conversion with a few modifications to work with transparent image imo the quality is satisfactory for something converted from raster images

[Naramsim]

Hmm, the contour seems a bit edgy. Better than nothing though. Do you think the image quality can be improved by having a larger SVG?

[FallenDeity]

svgs are supposed to be scalable so i dont think the initial saving size of the svg matters since image will be the same at any scale.

Altho the contour dosent seem to be that edgy to me when i open and zoom the image on browser in pc (it does seem a bit edgy in the default github ui),
it looks fine on phone for some reason

[danimesq]

Adding my own PNG->SVG conversion:

PNG

650	810

SVG

650	810

[FallenDeity]

That looks amazing @danimesq do you have the code for this? or would it be more convenient if I zipped over the sprites here? Lets see what other managers have to say ig.

[danimesq]

@FallenDeity, I believe we should merge our SVGs maybe?

My SVGs have better black borders, however yours have better internal borders/shadowing.
What software you're using? I do use VectorMagic via WINE (Linux).

Edit: the best way to merge our SVGs is opening each one in Inkscape, and put your shadowing borders into my SVGs (and some missing stuff, such as the line in the right ear of "my" Grookey lol)

Edit: now I've found out the software you've used. Did you try Inkscape's Trace Bitmap function?

I love automation, so clicks in a software could be simulated and the conversion process automatated for all PNGs at once.

[FallenDeity]

I haven't tried inkscape directly but https://github.com/migvel/color_trace used this extracted functions from this repo with a few modifications apparently the extracted functions is similar to what inkscape uses internally for tracing I'll send my updated script and the pngs here shortly

[FallenDeity]

https://filebox-1-l7109789.deta.app/shared/dd66e4748b6f004e Here are the sprites all mapped to their respective ids (in png)
Let me know if you're unable to access the sprites the whole zip was around 200mb so had to use a file bin

[danimesq]

@FallenDeity
Did these DreamWorld sprites stopped in Gen8 or they came to Gen9 as well?

@gedw99

https://github.com/gotranspile/gotrace is pure golang and can convert raster to vector. Supports SVG, PDF and DXF output
I have used it and it works well.

That sounds good. Let's someday mix the best results of each of the 3 software mentioned on this issue.

[FallenDeity]

Sprites are upto gen 9

[Naramsim]

Adding my own PNG->SVG conversion:

PNG

650	810

SVG

650	810

This looks amazing! Thanks for the effort!

[Naramsim]

https://filebox-1-l7109789.deta.app/shared/dd66e4748b6f004e Here are the sprites all mapped to their respective ids (in png)
Let me know if you're unable to access the sprites the whole zip was around 200mb so had to use a file bin

Whenever you are ready you can submit a PR and if it's possible to automate the process you can add a script as well.