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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: aldo_14 on November 08, 2001, 09:47:00 am

Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: aldo_14 on November 08, 2001, 09:47:00 am
I knocked these up last night for the campy with Lunarcell & PSP7...

 (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.white19/planet1.jpg)
 (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.white19/planet2.jpg)
 (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.white19/planet3.jpg)
 (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.white19/planet4.jpg)

(planets by me, fire nebulas by Pez)

 (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.white19/credits.jpg)

(Test credits screen)

I'm hoping to try and get a more distinctive look to the missions, to try and make the campaign look more individual.

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Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: deep_eyes on November 08, 2001, 09:53:00 am
they look great aldo. i use lunarcell on psp6.0 for most of my planets and Universe to make my stars and nebula unless i feel like makeing lil fluffly clouds using xenofex. in terms of 2-d art, i am good at, but 3d rendering, which these days i found myself doing with the FS2 engine as the main renderer, i just take a snap shot and its nice and spice it up with these plug ins. this is the easiest way to make renders lol. good work.

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Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: WS-Thunder on November 08, 2001, 11:50:00 am
Hey aldo, how did u do those planets and nebulas? What programs did u use? Where can I get the programs? How much did they cost u?


Also, do u think u two could help me out a little on my planets and nebulas? I have a couple that need to be made but I have no idea how to make them. This is for FS2 by the way.
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: Thorn on November 08, 2001, 01:45:00 pm
SWEET!![/i]
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: aldo_14 on November 08, 2001, 02:44:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by WS-Thunder:
Hey aldo, how did u do those planets and nebulas? What programs did u use? Where can I get the programs? How much did they cost u?


Also, do u think u two could help me out a little on my planets and nebulas? I have a couple that need to be made but I have no idea how to make them. This is for FS2 by the way.

I used a plug in for PSP called 'LunarCell' - really easy to use  -it generates a graphic of a planet based on several slider values.

Basically, first off i have a big image of a planet on a black background, then;

- use a circular mask to cut it out
- paste it onto a transparent background
- resize to 256x256
- draw a single true green dot (0,255,0), so that green is in the palette
- reduce to 256 colours
- select the white background created as a result with the 'smae colour' mask tool
- fill this in green, and save.

Edit stars.tbl to take the value.

Not made nebulas yet, but it's similar.

Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on November 08, 2001, 04:53:00 pm
Could this be used to make maps for planet surfaces i.e. a huge sphere? (I need a planet with a beam cannon - 3D)
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: Pez on November 08, 2001, 05:14:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by WS-Thunder:
Hey aldo, how did u do those planets and nebulas? What programs did u use? Where can I get the programs? How much did they cost u?


Also, do u think u two could help me out a little on my planets and nebulas? I have a couple that need to be made but I have no idea how to make them. This is for FS2 by the way.

Freespace 2 Sector have a large section of Nebula downloads.
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on November 08, 2001, 09:52:00 pm
Just D/led the trial, LunarCell is cool!
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: Shrike on November 08, 2001, 10:40:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by aldo_14:
Basically, first off i have a big image of a planet on a black background, then;

- use a circular mask to cut it out
- paste it onto a transparent background
- resize to 256x256
- draw a single true green dot (0,255,0), so that green is in the palette
- reduce to 256 colours
- select the white background created as a result with the 'smae colour' mask tool
- fill this in green, and save.

 (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/rolleyes.gif)  Just start off with a pure green b/g.   (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on November 08, 2001, 10:45:00 pm
Did any one buy this?
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: deep_eyes on November 08, 2001, 11:20:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by LAW ENFORCER:
Did any one buy this?


i know a website to download all these plug-ins for free as well as there serials, and its not a warez site. if u want i post the link in the week, and the serials, and u do what u want...


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Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on November 08, 2001, 11:30:00 pm
Well its not exactlly expensive (I think at least, hidden costs???)
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: deep_eyes on November 08, 2001, 11:42:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by LAW ENFORCER:
Well its not exactlly expensive (I think at least, hidden costs???)
http://www.geocities.com/santana_creations/ ("http://www.geocities.com/santana_creations/")

go here and click on filters. some of the filters u need certain DLL's for in order torun the properly with PSP and or Photoshop. the serials are within the ZIP file u download. if u dont have PSP, 6.0 or 7.0, i think it is avialable to download for free in there somewhere, and or theres a patch to make it the full version. enjoy.

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Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: Setekh on November 09, 2001, 02:10:00 am
Very impressive, Aldo  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: Nico on November 09, 2001, 07:54:00 pm
whoa.... I whish I had PSP and lunar cell...
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: jonskowitz on November 09, 2001, 09:43:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by venom2506:
whoa.... I whish I had PSP and lunar cell...

PSP4 is freeware now.  I'm sure I have a disk for it laying around here somewhere... came with a book... it was... HTML 4.0 reference library I think.

Both lunarcell and gitterato work fine with it without any DLLs or modifications.

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Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on November 09, 2001, 09:53:00 pm
4! thats old

What do you use?
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: Setekh on November 10, 2001, 02:05:00 am
 
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Originally posted by jonskowitz:
Both lunarcell and gitterato work fine with it without any DLLs or modifications.

Cross-compability 0wnz j00!  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: jonskowitz on November 10, 2001, 03:01:00 am
 
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Originally posted by LAW ENFORCER:
4! thats free

Can't really think of anything else to say  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/tongue.gif)
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: Nico on November 10, 2001, 05:30:00 am
cool! and I can have the same quality with PSP?
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on November 10, 2001, 12:49:00 pm
cross-compatability?? I think you mean backward...
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: jonskowitz on November 10, 2001, 05:31:00 pm
No, he means Cross-compatability.  Both Glitterato and Lunarcell were primarily intended to work with Photoshop, not Paint Shop Pro.

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Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on November 11, 2001, 04:23:00 pm
Yes, I know but we were talking aobut PSP, wern't we?
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: jonskowitz on November 11, 2001, 05:40:00 pm
Yes we were talking about PSP.  What Setekh meant by cross-compatability was that plug-ins intended for Photoshop work perfectly well in Paint Shop Pro.
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on November 11, 2001, 06:42:00 pm
I tohught he meant PSP 4 and 7 working together (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif) (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Title: Think these look ok?
Post by: Setekh on November 12, 2001, 03:03:00 am
Heh, thanks for covering me there Jon  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)