[aldo_14]

I knocked these up last night for the campy with Lunarcell & PSP7...

 
 
 
 

(planets by me, fire nebulas by Pez)

 

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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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[deep_eyes]

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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[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.

[Thorn]

SWEET!![/i]

[aldo_14]

 

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.

[LAW ENFORCER]

Could this be used to make maps for planet surfaces i.e. a huge sphere? (I need a planet with a beam cannon - 3D)

[Pez]

 

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.

[LAW ENFORCER]

Just D/led the trial, LunarCell is cool!

[Shrike]

 

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.

   Just start off with a pure green b/g.  

[LAW ENFORCER]

Did any one buy this?

[deep_eyes]

 

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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[LAW ENFORCER]

Well its not exactlly expensive (I think at least, hidden costs???)

[deep_eyes]

 

Originally posted by LAW ENFORCER:
Well its not exactlly expensive (I think at least, hidden costs???)

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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[Setekh]

Very impressive, Aldo  

[Nico]

whoa.... I whish I had PSP and lunar cell...

[jonskowitz]

 

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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[LAW ENFORCER]

4! thats old

What do you use?

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by jonskowitz:
Both lunarcell and gitterato work fine with it without any DLLs or modifications.

Cross-compability 0wnz j00!  

[jonskowitz]

 

Originally posted by LAW ENFORCER:
4! thats free

Can't really think of anything else to say  

[Nico]

cool! and I can have the same quality with PSP?