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Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Solatar on October 20, 2002, 10:46:49 am: How do you make the nameplates that go on the Orion? I need some for the TVWP, and I don't know how to make them.
I already got that pack off of VWatch, but I need the GTD Gaia, and the GTD Orion. As well as a few others later on.
I have Paintshop Pro 7, if that helps any.
Title: Re: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: aldo_14 on October 20, 2002, 12:44:57 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Hades
How do you make the nameplates that go on the Orion? I need some for the TVWP, and I don't know how to make them.
I already got that pack off of VWatch, but I need the GTD Gaia, and the GTD Orion. As well as a few others later on.
I have Paintshop Pro 7, if that helps any.

Methinks you need to create a layer of about 50% opacity, type up the text in 'Stop' format, and (before saving) delete a number of space on it to try and make the texture look 'worn'

Any help?
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: EdrickV on October 20, 2002, 07:47:23 pm: The texture you want to make a copy of and edit is capital01-05a. After you make an edited copy of the texture, you make a copy of the POF file and change the name of that texture to your ship specific one. (Example: The Galatea is capital01a so it's texture name is capital01a-05a.)
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Solatar on October 20, 2002, 08:09:35 pm: I already knew that. I need to know how to make the text transparent.
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: EdrickV on October 20, 2002, 08:26:33 pm: Depends on what you're using to edit the image. If it supports layers, putting the text on a seperate layer and making that layer 50% transparent (or whatever looks good) ought to work, though it may not look exactly the same as the way they did theirs. (Not really sure what they did to get their text the way they did, and they're probably the only ones who know exactly what they did.)
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Solatar on October 20, 2002, 08:38:03 pm: No, other people know how to do it. Dark and Goober5000 have both done excellent ones. I'll just have Goober5000 do the nameplates for the TVWP.
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on October 20, 2002, 11:44:49 pm: Here (http://www.angelfire.com/space/sesquipedalian/nameplates.zip). Just because I was bored, nice, and procrastinating. It also only took a moment to do. I'm sure you'll find them just what wanted. (Yeah, I gave up on false humility awhile ago. I'm good, and I may as well admit it.)
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Solatar on October 21, 2002, 02:19:52 pm: Thanks a lot. We already have the Orion, but what we really needed was the Gaia.
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on October 21, 2002, 02:40:34 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Hades
Thanks a lot. We already have the Orion, but what we really needed was the Gaia.

:wtf:There is one for the Gaia in there...
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Solatar on October 21, 2002, 03:04:40 pm: I know. That's what I was saying, thanks for teh Gaia, we already have the Orion. So, we needed the Gaia. All the needed was in PAST tense. ( Obviously English is my first language, and only ):)
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on October 21, 2002, 08:16:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Hades
I know. That's what I was saying, thanks for teh Gaia, we already have the Orion. So, we needed the Gaia. All the needed was in PAST tense. ( Obviously English is my first language, and only ):)

Ah. I see. Your use of the present tense in the phrase "We already have the Orion" led me to think that at the time of writing (i.e. after you had downloaded the zip) that you already had an Orion and were still looking for a Gaia at that then-present moment. If you'd said "We already had the Orion" I'd have understood you perfectly, because the use of the past form would have placed the frame of reference already in the past, thereby indicating that the need for the Gaia was also in the past.

Edit: Yeah, I'm a grammarian geekazoid.
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Solatar on October 21, 2002, 08:27:55 pm: The need for the Gaia was in the past. But need is refering to the future. You have to have in a sort, in the future. So, a few days ago, I could have said I have to have the Gaia, or I need the Gaia.
Therefore, we needed the Gaia ( Past tense ) but in the time of my post, I already had it. If I had needed it still, I would have put we need the Gaia ( present tense ).

Om a grammar geek also ( Just not a spelling one ):p
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on October 21, 2002, 08:51:20 pm: Yes, but the sudden switch from present to past between the two clauses threw me. That's what I'm on about. The first clause was in the present, leading me to think on a quick reading that the whole sentence was in the present. If the two clauses had been in tense agreement, the communicaiton would have been much clearer. (Btw, need only refers to the future when in the future tense.)

But anyway, this is pointless argument, I guess (though I'll still post this since I've now already written it).
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Joey_21 on October 21, 2002, 10:16:24 pm: I posted a tutorial on how to make this stuff a loooooong time ago. :)

click here (http://www.hard-light.net/vwbb/showthread.php?threadid=6428)

Edit: Blank name plate here (http://denebsystem.250free.com/blanknameplate.zip)
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on October 21, 2002, 10:32:53 pm: I like Corel PhotoPaint better. Similar method of course, but I get to use fractal transperencies for a more convincing wear-and-tear look!

Corel 0wnz all.
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Starfury on October 21, 2002, 10:34:53 pm: Where do you get the stop font?
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Killfrenzy on October 22, 2002, 04:24:45 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Corel 0wnz all.

No it sodding well doesn't!:mad: It doesn't work half of the time!!
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on October 22, 2002, 04:37:20 am: :wtf:It works quite well for me. What version are you using, anyway?
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Joey_21 on October 22, 2002, 09:35:09 am: Stop Font can be found here (http://denebsystem.cjb.net/misc.html). (i think) If not, let me know :)
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Stealth on October 22, 2002, 11:34:00 am: i need the "final" tutorial... for reference for my webpage
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Joey_21 on October 22, 2002, 11:52:55 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stealth
i need the "final" tutorial... for reference for my webpage

Look a few posts up at the link I posted...
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Stealth on October 22, 2002, 12:34:42 pm: i see now... thanks :0
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Goober5000 on October 22, 2002, 01:27:44 pm: If you want another tutorial, Stealth, I wrote up the procedure I developed here (http://www.geocities.com/ipw47/nameplates.html). I used Photoshop, and I'm very pleased with the results - they look nearly identical to both :v:'s and Dark's nameplates. Plus this procedure allows you to easily mass-produce nameplates. :)
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Solatar on October 22, 2002, 01:51:25 pm: I was looking for a tutorial. Thanks guys.
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Solatar on October 22, 2002, 02:10:12 pm: Ahhk!! Makes it so bright! Goober5000, you can do all of the nameplates.
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Goober5000 on October 22, 2002, 02:16:31 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Hades
Goober5000, you can do all of the nameplates.
Cool. :cool:

Don't feel bad, Joey_21 - it took me a long time to come up with a method I liked. I actually began by following your tutorial. :)
Title: How do you make Orion Nameplates?
Post by: Joey_21 on October 22, 2002, 02:43:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Goober5000
Cool. :cool:

Don't feel bad, Joey_21 - it took me a long time to come up with a method I liked. I actually began by following your tutorial. :)

N/p just trying to be a help whenever I can. :)