[Lightspeed]

Eh, hold up with the Tauret a bit - I have an old piece of work from it - not sure if/how it's usable, but I think it's a better start than the stock map.

I have a Tauret map that's completely rebuilt from scratch (as the original was boo-boo), but it is (drumroll) unfinished.

[jdjtcagle]

Lightspeed I can't really understand your little tutorial, Whats bilinear filtering??

[Rictor]

in Photoshop, when you resize the image, there is a little box with the options "Nearest Neighbor", "Bilinear" and another one which I can't remember. They affect the way in which PS resizes the pixels. The default, and what you were likely using until now is Nearest Neighbor, and what Lightspeed is saying you should use is Bilinear.

[jdjtcagle]

Ok thanks, sorry but I'm a complete newb when it comes to graphics

[Lightspeed]

Nearest Pixel = It just scales up pixelating everything as you make it larger

Bilinear = It scales up and interpolates between the different pixels, making everything blurry as hell as you make it larger.

-edit:

If you resize images with Photoshop it uses the following defaults:

Image is 8-bit: rescales Nearest Pixel

Image is true colour: rescales Bilinear

You can later convert the image either way, of course.

[Ulala]

They looked better to me?

[Gregster2k]

You're imagining it, ulala. I just checked, they aren't much different, except for slight increase in contrast. Lightspeed is entirely right. What jdjtcagle is failing to do is convert the colors to RGB Colors after opening the original PCX's. Thus, it does not even GIVE him the option to linear/cubic/bilinear/whatever the image when resizing: all he gets is the blocky resize version.

[jdjtcagle]

Yes I did...
Why do people speak of what they do not know, I did to convert it to RGB. you just pushed my last button from you Grester (I've seen nothing but nonesense come from you, since you got here.

FYI, I never used the contrast or any layers in fact I only used a brush... no filters... only a fricken brush, that was my problem, I also failed to resize the image to bilinear and get rid of the pixels around round spots of the texture.  He's not imagining anything, that's detail with bad pixels, and ridiculous lighting on some areas.  I'll admit it's bad on the most part, you just don't bump age old threads and start acting like you know what I did.

[Woolie Wool]

No matter what you do, the Colossus will still be as ugly as ****. You can put nice textures on a turd, but it will still stink. Why not a remodel instead?

[Star Dragon]

I sense a new contest!!!

 (begin announcer God voice)

 [MAKE THE NEW COLOSSUS]

 (end announcer God voice)

   Ok work on your designs in secret and say in 2-3 months (it doesn't HAVE to be finished for game use then but the main modeling and texturing MUST be done), post lots of pics at different angles and the community will have a 2 week poll. The winner gets the "Official" title of

 (anounncer God voice again)
 
[Colossus Mark II]

  (end announcer God voice again)

thoughts?

[ShadowDrakken]

well that's no fair for those of us that only do modelling
oh well, I'm out of the contest either way

[jdjtcagle]

Moddeling has never been my specialty... In fact I suck at modeling!!