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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: StarGunner on June 15, 2003, 01:29:29 pm

Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: StarGunner on June 15, 2003, 01:29:29 pm
I was looking at the Cutsceens of FS2 and saw that the shivan ships thruster glows, and threshers looked different than ingame dose anyone have a better looking one I could use? I can't make it for myself if I could I would of dune it a longtime ago.:nervous:
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Knight Templar on June 15, 2003, 02:37:18 pm
are you for real? :blah:
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: StarGunner on June 15, 2003, 08:15:03 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
are you for real? :blah:


What dose that mean? I whan't a better looking thresher, and thruster ani is that too mush to ask? Is there a mod already made that I could download?:o
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Anaz on June 15, 2003, 08:16:16 pm
is this bad spelling/wrong word stuff all an act?
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Knight Templar on June 15, 2003, 08:29:25 pm
I cringe to think anyone that tarded lives on my planet.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Bri_Dog on June 15, 2003, 08:31:11 pm
It's only some misspelled words guys :rolleyes:
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Knight Templar on June 15, 2003, 08:33:39 pm
Some = 9, and I'm not even touching on grammar.

Some also equals every post.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Bri_Dog on June 15, 2003, 09:49:04 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Some = 9, and I'm not even touching on grammar.

Some also equals every post.


So what?  I hope he butchers the language some more just to piss you off.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Whitelight on June 15, 2003, 09:51:12 pm
There are a lot of talented people here who can answer your question about making the thruster glow that you are talking about, but most of them are already deep in a mutitude of projects and may not be able to take on any new projects..

But it never hurts to ask..:)
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Anaz on June 15, 2003, 10:26:35 pm
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Originally posted by Bri_Dog
It's only some misspelled words guys :rolleyes:


I'm not asking for much. Please, just act like you have a basic grasp of the language and I'll be happy.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Woolie Wool on June 15, 2003, 10:34:50 pm
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Originally posted by StarGunner


What dose that mean? I whan't a better looking thresher, and thruster ani is that too mush to ask? Is there a mod already made that I could download?:o


All your awful English are belong to us.:wtf::lol:
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Bobboau on June 16, 2003, 02:14:19 am
don't pick on him for bad spelling, it means nothing, especaly seeing as about half the comunity only speack english as a second language (though most of them are better spellers than me)
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: karajorma on June 16, 2003, 02:38:43 am
I wouldn't pick on foreigners for bad spelling or grammer. Hell even Free Terran (who has improved a lot recently) never got picked on even though he was mostly unintelligable at the start.

This guy however is from the US! Now while he might just be very young or unable to spell correctly due to dyslexia or somesuch it's more likely that we've got another lazy american who can't be bothered (and I'm not being unfair, the people who spell like this on HLP are always American!)

Anyway while it's fair to have a go at the spelling unless there is a good reason for it that doesn't mean we shouldn't answer the question.

 As far as I know there aren't any easily downloadable glow or thruster mods. There was a topic on here a few weeks back by Free Terran involving some new glows though so you could try asking him for them (or how he did them).
Title: Re: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Assassin on June 16, 2003, 02:44:16 am
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Originally posted by StarGunner
I was looking at the Cutsceens of FS2 and saw that the shivan ships thruster glows, and threshers looked different than ingame dose anyone have a better looking one I could use? I can't make it for myself if I could I would of dune it a longtime ago.:nervous:


You could probably do this yourself by extracting the original thrusterglow ani from the VP file, converting it into a series of jpeg's. Then mess about the jpegs in PSP with all the RGB, brightness, contrast, hue map etc.stuff, then compile them back together into an ani and save.

I wouldn't imagine it would take more than 20 minutes with the right tools. If you're after a whole new artwork for the glows then go ahead and ask. :)
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Bobboau on June 16, 2003, 02:54:46 am
thruster glows are pcx
Title: Re: Re: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Black Wolf on June 16, 2003, 03:10:21 am
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Originally posted by Assassin


You could probably do this yourself by extracting the original thrusterglow ani from the VP file, converting it into a series of jpeg's. Then mess about the jpegs in PSP with all the RGB, brightness, contrast, hue map etc.stuff, then compile them back together into an ani and save.

I wouldn't imagine it would take more than 20 minutes with the right tools. If you're after a whole new artwork for the glows then go ahead and ask. :)


*Chalks up one more PSP user*

(Yeah, I know there are more than a few, but this one's (relatively) new)

Go PSP :D
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Assassin on June 16, 2003, 06:36:15 am
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Originally posted by Bobboau
thruster glows are pcx


Ah, the glows, not the flames. Yeah, thats even simpler. Should take less than 5 minutes if you just want to make it redder.

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Originally posted by BlackWolf
*Chalks up one more PSP user*

(Yeah, I know there are more than a few, but this one's (relatively) new)


New? NEW?! I've been about since the VBB... I just chose to take a year-long break from FS... :lol:
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Black Wolf on June 16, 2003, 06:38:49 am
Bleh, so I have a crappy memory :D
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Martinus on June 16, 2003, 06:59:51 am
[color=66ff00]From what I remember Stargunner has attention deficit disorder, people gave him hassle about spelling when he first came here. He get's the general idea across so lets leave it at that.
BTW KT, show a little damn tolerance.

Sorry stargunner I've never done any work with FS ani files so I can't help you out.
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Title: Re: Re: Re: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: IceFire on June 16, 2003, 08:21:44 am
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Originally posted by Black Wolf


*Chalks up one more PSP user*

(Yeah, I know there are more than a few, but this one's (relatively) new)

Go PSP :D

I was a PSP user....FSW is a prime example of some PSP work...however, I'm now a Photoshop convert.  That and the fact that educational priced Adobe software is so much cheaper than retail :)

StarGunner, I think you probably can make it for yourself or at least have a really interesting time trying to learn how to do it.  I haven't got any time to play with the Shivan thruster glows but grab virtually any paint program and play around with a few settings and you can usually achieve some really cool looking stuff.

There is also a MOD on this page that replaces all of the thruster glows with different ones: http://www.3dap.com/hlp/freespace/mods/misc/

You may like those quite a bit more than FS2 standard.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: StarGunner on June 16, 2003, 10:17:53 am
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Originally posted by Woolie Wool


All your awful English are belong to us.:wtf::lol:


I only see two words spelled wrong just back off! Jees. Guss I'll just have to look for it, then thanks for the links. BTW whats PSP? is it a tool that I could download?
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Taristin on June 16, 2003, 11:41:04 am
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Originally posted by StarGunner

 BTW whats PSP? is it a tool that I could download?


:eek:  If this is a serious question....
It's Paint Shop Pro... you can get an eval version at www.jasc.com

If you choose to buy it tho, be prepped to shell out a bit... Though there's always ways around it...  

What? I didn't say anything I shouldn't :p
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: IceFire on June 16, 2003, 01:31:50 pm
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h


:eek:  If this is a serious question....
It's Paint Shop Pro... you can get an eval version at www.jasc.com

If you choose to buy it tho, be prepped to shell out a bit... Though there's always ways around it...  

What? I didn't say anything I shouldn't :p

I thought it was like $80-100 bucks.  Thats NOTHING for a piece of imaging software.  Photoshop retail is over $1000 typically and academically priced versions are between $350-$450 (all in Cdn dollars :D).
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Woolie Wool on June 16, 2003, 02:24:36 pm
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Originally posted by Bobboau
don't pick on him for bad spelling, it means nothing, especaly seeing as about half the comunity only speack english as a second language (though most of them are better spellers than me)


I'm talking about grammar as well.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Woolie Wool on June 16, 2003, 02:29:29 pm
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Photoshop retail is over $1000 typically


ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS?!?! Gawd, I thought it was "only" $650-$800. Someone tell me why ANY imaging software would be worth a thousand bucks.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Knight Templar on June 16, 2003, 02:51:26 pm
$1000 Canadian dude. That's like $450 US. :p
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Woolie Wool on June 16, 2003, 03:04:26 pm
That's still a huge amount of money for software.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Knight Templar on June 16, 2003, 03:12:23 pm
Thus, the evil online black market.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: diamondgeezer on June 16, 2003, 04:08:12 pm
Mmmm, that's good piracy :nod:
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: IceFire on June 16, 2003, 04:43:24 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
$1000 Canadian dude. That's like $450 US. :p

No no no...Canadian dollar is back to 72 cents US the last I checked.  You're dollar is falling and ours is going back up...why, because our economy...despite the Mad Cow scare (one cow had it), SARS, West Nile Virus, and so on...is still doing ok :D

Thats probably about $700-800 US (based on the price point that stores will sell down there).
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Knight Templar on June 16, 2003, 04:51:30 pm
meh. I still hang on to the good ol' days. Like last summer, when it was $.48 canadian to a $1 US. :D
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Martinus on June 16, 2003, 06:29:10 pm
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Mmmm, that's good piracy :nod:

[color=66ff00]I remember my friend once handed me a CDR with Maya on it. I stared at him for a minute after he told me what was on the disk and then asked him did he know how much that one CDR was worth...
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Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Liberator on June 16, 2003, 08:28:00 pm
I'm leaning toward Photoshop: Elements because I saw in one review that it is basically PS without some of the high $$$ features that only mainstream pros use with any frequency.  It's available at my local Wal-Mart for like $60-70 usd.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Stryke 9 on June 16, 2003, 09:07:33 pm
Buy used. Buy old. There's nothing on Photoshop 7 that you need unless you're a pro. 5.5 might be the earliest at which you get the really cool features, but it's pretty damn good even before then. And the price drops dramatically with old software.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Black Wolf on June 16, 2003, 09:11:02 pm
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Originally posted by Woolie Wool


ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS?!?! Gawd, I thought it was "only" $650-$800. Someone tell me why ANY imaging software would be worth a thousand bucks.


Photoshop is Industry standard stuff you have to understand, which means professional graphics designers use it. Hence, Adopbe can charge pretty much whatever they want, people will still pay it (These designers are there target audience after all). Plus if they buy it, come tax time it can be written off as a work related purchase.

It's akin to a farmer buying a half million dollar tractor, or a brickie spending a couple of hundred dollars on a new cement mixer.
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Woolie Wool on June 16, 2003, 09:13:16 pm
http://www.ulead.com/pi/runme.htm <---Ulead PhotoImpact. It's dirt cheap for imaging software and has most of the features of Photoshop. Okay, so it can't put differently-colored borders around each letter of your text or do layers, but it can do about everything else--even lens flares, if you like torturing yourself and everyone who looks at your images (I hate lens flares).
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Black Wolf on June 16, 2003, 09:26:19 pm
PSP 7 is my Image editor of choice, it's cheaper, easier to learn, runs all of PS's plugins and has 90% of its features. I was just explaining why it's so expensive, not supporting the proggy :)
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: StarGunner on June 17, 2003, 02:03:34 pm
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
PSP 7 is my Image editor of choice, it's cheaper, easier to learn, runs all of PS's plugins and has 90% of its features. I was just explaining why it's so expensive, not supporting the proggy :)


SOMEONE LOCK THIS THREAD IT'S TOO OFF TOPIC, AND I GOT WHAT I NEEDED........................................End of line **Screen shuts off**
Title: New Red shivan Shrusters: Whan'ted
Post by: Sesquipedalian on June 18, 2003, 01:33:31 am
Corel owns all.  Plain and simple.