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Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 19 Apr 2011, 06:10
by MidKnight
Forboding Angel wrote:Tripod still exists? When I was 16 tripod and geoshitties was cool. 12 years later, not so much.
Edit: ahha oh wow, I guess make that 13 years later. I forgot that my bday is this sunday
AAAAAH
FORB'S THE EASTER BUNNY!
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 19 Apr 2011, 06:40
by Forboding Angel
When I hit 30 and have managed for all my years of work to amount to nothing, I am raegquitting spring.
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 19 Apr 2011, 06:47
by MidKnight
Forboding Angel wrote:When I hit 30 and have managed for all my years of work to amount to nothing, I am raegquitting spring.
B-but Forb!
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 19 Apr 2011, 15:57
by PicassoCT
Thus the timecouting and date were bannished from the springboard, and all new versions were numbered backwards, all that just to keep forb.
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 19 Apr 2011, 20:54
by rattle
TGA for sprites cause it's easier to work with.. not really fond of transparency, prefer having an alpha channel
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 21 Apr 2011, 06:24
by SanadaUjiosan
Forboding Angel wrote:hehe silly
Copied image from forums
Put into photoshop
Color range select white (100 feather)
copy result into a new smaller image (for some reason the original had a ton of whitespace)
Save image as png
Upload to ftp
Post on forums
Attempt to look like a hero
Profit.
Basically, I just converted it to a transparent png and removed the white + whitespace. Using anything other than png with the engine is pretty silly. Png is by far the most versatile (looks the best too) format we have access to.
Does not work for me. I maintain my title!
I cannot get the alpha/transparency/whatever to work. I've tried deleting it, even stepped into new territory with what I think was me altering an alpha channel.
I am confused and feel stupid.
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 21 Apr 2011, 08:05
by Forboding Angel
Open image in photoshop. Double click background layer so that it changes to "layer 1".
You're trying to do it in the wrong image mode. Make sure that on the create new image dialog in photoshop, background is set to transparent instead of foreground or background. That will solve a lot of newbie mistakes.
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 22 Apr 2011, 04:02
by SanadaUjiosan
I still don't really understand what was going wrong before, but I just started making new ones from scratch and it is working. After a good deal of tweaking, this is what I made.
Machine guns flares and jump jet flares!
Note: ignore the big stupid yellow blast in the first image, that will (now) be removed in due time.
Again, thanks a ton to everyone who helped iron this out. Confusing stuff
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 22 Apr 2011, 04:20
by Wombat
looks uber sex, but i demand more screenies of that big thing !
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 22 Apr 2011, 04:42
by bobthedinosaur
that big thing may be a medium thing up close, its hard to tell with cell shades. why do shadows not show up? you need to get a cell shader for shadows!
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 22 Apr 2011, 04:46
by SanadaUjiosan
Because I turn off shadows. And yeah, the Honda is larger but not that much larger than the Hojo.
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 22 Apr 2011, 05:08
by Wombat
hmm, i dunno if u (should) care, but these effects look bit... too 'noisy' compared to the rest of stuff. maybe too detailed ? i think it could look better bigger.
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 22 Apr 2011, 14:04
by PicassoCT
You must be over XIII to watch this hot pictures :D
Shouldnt you change the topic name, Sanada? Moar into something like: Me beats everything out of CEG?
really really sweet stuff
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 22 Apr 2011, 15:05
by smoth
bobthedinosaur wrote:that big thing may be a medium thing up close, its hard to tell with cell shades. why do shadows not show up? you need to get a cell shader for shadows!
They could use that old blob shadows lua.
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 22 Apr 2011, 21:38
by rattle
if it's possible I'd render the muzzles without gouraud shading so they're always fullbright
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 22 Apr 2011, 23:18
by Forboding Angel
Sanada, having shadows off completely changes the way stuff is rendered ingame. You need to be testing with shadows enabled and l view off.
You don't ahve to play that way, but you need to test that way for proper results.
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 22 Apr 2011, 23:34
by SanadaUjiosan
rattle wrote:if it's possible I'd render the muzzles without gouraud shading so they're always fullbright
Don't really know what that means.
<~~ newbie to all of this.
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 23 Apr 2011, 06:53
by MidKnight
SanadaUjiosan wrote:rattle wrote:if it's possible I'd render the muzzles without gouraud shading so they're always fullbright
Don't really know what that means.
<~~ newbie to all of this.
@Sanada:
@Rattle: what you're suggesting is basically ghetto cel shading, no?
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 23 Apr 2011, 15:08
by rattle
pretty much.. for the muzzles at least. did anyone create a proper toon shader for use in spring yet?
Re: CEG's got me beat
Posted: 25 Apr 2011, 02:47
by knorke
i am sure you can get pretty cartoony effects (ie like in "worms world party") without needing new shaders.
ie the muzzle flashs on that pictures look too detailed, too "fuzzed out" for a cartoon look which can easily be changed with different sprite bitmaps...