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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: colecampbell666 on May 08, 2008, 06:47:14 pm
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Make some cool FSO-pimping stuff. Example, and my first piece using GIMP:
(http://i31.tinypic.com/10ztkjo.png)
And the beams don't look like that when you view it full-size, but that looks cool.
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Why do they look like that in the lvlshot?
Nice one though :yes:
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Youuuuuuu Polorized it?
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It's not supposed to be like that - he said. I guess the forum (or tinypic) did something.
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Click the image to get the full one, you'll see it's not like that. That happened because of the resizing compression, it omitted some pixels.
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Click the image to get the full one, you'll see it's not like that. That happened because of the resizing compression, it omitted some pixels.
I see, it has an alpha channel...?
Still not sure if that is why the beams and the sun are black...
It looks damn neat though. :D
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Yeah, I used alpha transparency.
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(http://i31.tinypic.com/10ztkjo.png)
Which is why when I post it it looks HLP-orange.
Why use the alpha channel instead of white?
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I can't really do anything about the planet, and that sun is as good as I can get it.
(http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/4804/ccwx5.png)
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Just put a white background behind it and it looks fine. (can be done with photoshop etc).
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Can't work for me. Whenever I copy the image into gimp or paint or something, those "alphas" turn into not-alphas, and very ugly as well. Cole should be able to do it; he's still got the original.
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It worked for me when I downloaded it and opened it with photoshop, rather than just copying it.
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It worked for me when I downloaded it and opened it with photoshop, rather than just copying it.
That's odd. Shame I don't have tons of money/bandwidth to throw at photoshop, otherwise I would try that as opposed to Gimp.
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Have you tried that method with Gimp?
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As far as GIMP and Photoshop are concerned, how does Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net) stack up? I've got both GIMP and Paint.NET; I don't use either, b/c I'm not too GFX-l33t, sadly. I do mess around with them sometimes, though.
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As far as GIMP and Photoshop are concerned, how does Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net) stack up? I've got both GIMP and Paint.NET; I don't use either, b/c I'm not too GFX-l33t, sadly. I do mess around with them sometimes, though.
Paint.NET is used by my friend, but it doesn't seem to be as good feature-wise as GIMP.
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Have you tried that method with Gimp?
Yup. I would've posted my stupidity, but I had a hunch that if I tried it wouldn't work.
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As far as GIMP and Photoshop are concerned, how does Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net) stack up? I've got both GIMP and Paint.NET; I don't use either, b/c I'm not too GFX-l33t, sadly. I do mess around with them sometimes, though.
Paint.NET is used by my friend, but it doesn't seem to be as good feature-wise as GIMP.
Oh, it most certainly is not, but egad. The user interface is so simple, so clear, so... pleasant, I might say. That's why I use it.
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You guys realize that this wasn't a topic to show off that one shot? This was so that other people could do stuff like it.
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This was so that other people could do stuff like it.
Okay.
(http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/958/fs2awesome1fz8.th.png) (http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/958/fs2awesome1fz8.png)
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What font's that?
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StarCraft.
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Now I remember. I knew I'd seen it somewhere.