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Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: supernova_989 on December 30, 2004, 09:06:11 pm: How do you make one? (Ex. Sync is a huge Mothership with a Hercules in front of it)

Any help would be nice:headz:
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Nuclear1 on December 30, 2004, 09:07:56 pm: Usually you have to be able to design your own through some art program (usually Photoshop). Or you could ask someone politely who does that particular thing and they could do one for you.
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: supernova_989 on December 30, 2004, 09:14:14 pm: My my, O wonderful Blaise Russel, how do you make your amazing, jaw dropping, spectacular logos your your action packed campiagns :eek2: (No, really:D )
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Nuclear1 on December 30, 2004, 09:35:54 pm: You could do something similar to what Blaise did for Homesick: simply a good screenshot, edit it a bit, and add your campaign title in the foreground.
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: pyro-manic on December 30, 2004, 09:52:01 pm: Aye. SCP-ified FS2 is good for screencaps. Then just tart it up a bit in photoshop (add some glows to lights/slight motion blur on a fighter, something like that) and whack the name across it. Robert's your mother's brother! ;)
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: pecenipicek on December 31, 2004, 06:23:37 pm: whos robert?
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: pyro-manic on December 31, 2004, 08:26:02 pm: :wtf: Are you serious?
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Knight Templar on January 01, 2005, 03:44:12 am: He's your mother's brother, apparently.

AKA Uncle Rob.
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: pecenipicek on January 01, 2005, 06:30:48 am: i have an uncle but hes not rob....
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Blaise Russel on January 01, 2005, 07:11:56 am: "and Bob's your uncle" = "and there you go"
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Noise on January 01, 2005, 09:07:20 am: I took a screen shot from the last vid file of FS2, put some words in front of it, and it worked out rather nicely. Not hard at all.
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: pecenipicek on January 01, 2005, 10:44:34 am: how? i mean how did you do the capture on vids?
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Noise on January 01, 2005, 11:16:42 am: I let the vids play, and when it came to the screen I want, I press the print screen button and paste it to a image program.
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Hippo on January 01, 2005, 11:41:59 am: And suddenly my name is being woven into a thread... Strange :wtf: :p ... I am not your uncle!

Yeah, the Print Screen key (PrtScrn on some computers) will also put a (tga?) file in your /freespace2/ folder, but it will also copy the most recent to the clipboard, so you can paste it in things
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 01, 2005, 12:35:34 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Hippo
And suddenly my name is being woven into a thread... Strange :wtf: :p ... I am not your uncle!

Yeah, the Print Screen key (PrtScrn on some computers) will also put a (tga?) file in your /freespace2/ folder, but it will also copy the most recent to the clipboard, so you can paste it in things

You mean...

...on the clipboard, so you can paste is somewhere now? :D
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Hippo on January 01, 2005, 12:37:44 pm: well, yeah, but you can paste it in general :p
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Taristin on January 01, 2005, 01:18:39 pm: Just hit printscreen in game, and you'll have bmp's of what you saved. And hippo's your mother's brother.
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 01, 2005, 01:27:54 pm: And Raa's your former roommate. :p

And this (http://geocities.com/nuclear1_2000/index.html) is an example of taking a screencap in game and putting some text on it. It was the website for my ancient campaign, though it never did get finished (neither did the campaign, IIRC).
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: pecenipicek on January 01, 2005, 02:13:04 pm: nah i know that... i didnt think that taking screenies in vids is possible...
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Hippo on January 01, 2005, 04:57:48 pm: it might not output a file, but it should still go to the clipboard... (or both)...
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Taristin on January 01, 2005, 10:56:22 pm: No... generally, I think you have to remove hardware acceleration for screen capturing videos. Otherwise you get a black box where the image was.
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: pecenipicek on January 02, 2005, 01:44:39 pm: *cough*fraps*cough*

i got screenies made with it but its on my NTFS partition... so no-go for now :D
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Cobra on January 03, 2005, 12:17:00 am: Or, you could rip off something from one of the interfaces from FS1 or FS2, like I did:

(http://www.geocities.com/willy_principal/pathlogo.jpg)

Thanks to willy_principal, i can show my logo to everyone. :D
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Lightspeed on January 03, 2005, 01:43:15 am: *points finger and faints*

That image is SOOO saved for future reference. :D
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: pyro-manic on January 03, 2005, 03:44:52 am: :lol:

Mmmm, get a load of those pixels...

Might want to use the high-res interface art, Cobra - or at least tidy the thing up. That looks a bit nasty as-is...
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Cobra on January 03, 2005, 05:11:41 pm: i'm new at doing this. i used paint and paintshop pro 4 instead of photoshop. i just enlarged it. sucky, aren't they?

can anyone give me any tips?
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Goober5000 on January 03, 2005, 05:13:07 pm: Don't use Paint. Use PSP or Photoshop. And practice. Look for tutorials on the internet.
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Hippo on January 03, 2005, 05:13:52 pm: Get a professional to do it.
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Hippo on January 03, 2005, 05:21:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Goober5000
Don't use Paint. Use PSP or Photoshop. And practice. Look for tutorials on the internet.

What you talkin' bout Goober? I made this (http://www.sectorgame.com/ahtw/images/AHTWnew2.jpg) primarily with paint...
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Goober5000 on January 03, 2005, 05:23:28 pm: Eh, people generally frown on using Paint. I'm just saving him from the angry mob. :p
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Hippo on January 03, 2005, 05:26:04 pm: I know that ;) ...
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Cobra on January 03, 2005, 05:29:44 pm: good thinking

hippo: how the heck did you make that with paint?! :jaw: i don't know how you even got the ships on there.

the original logo was a LOT better looking than this one, but since i restored my pc i didn't have it anymore, and since FSPort doesn't have the background i got it from anymore, so i ripped it off from an FS2 interface .pcx. the original didn't have so many pixels showing.
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Post by: pecenipicek on January 04, 2005, 10:35:03 am: hippo... i think ur cheating :D
not that its bad
cobra if you want a new one im here....

and a side note to anyone who wishes to frown: i am usually a lot better than that old siggie of mine:D usually
Title: How do you make a campaign "logo"
Post by: Cobra on January 04, 2005, 11:27:18 am: okay. just keep the Pathways nothing is as it seems and the FS2 logo, i just need it nice and sharp. Grimloq is doing one to, i just wanna see which one looks better. (no offense, pece :D)
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Post by: pecenipicek on January 04, 2005, 12:17:21 pm: none taken