Spring RTS Engine

... I need some help

I want to make a frame that i can use as an overlay for other pics, videos etc, but all my attempts end in abject failure

From what ive randomly read about this sort of thing in the past its an alpha channel thingie i need right? I've been using photoshop to try and do it but im stupid and need some help



Yeah its really ugly i know but its just a quick thing to see i can actuly do it, which i can't, which is why i need someone to tell me how / make one for me

Hey, tell me what "theme" you need it in, and I'll try it as a challenge for my Paint.NET skills.

First you need to know if your video program supports an image type that has alpha... IE tga.

If it does then, when in photoshop, go to the channel tab (should be near the layers tab probably, but it might not be turned on if you aint used it...) and make a new channel, which will automaticlay be called alpha 1 or alpha.

Then make sure that channel is selected and anything you draw will controle the alpha. so balck area will exist (and should overlay red on your image) and white stuff will vanish.

Then just make sure you save as a format that has transparency, and make sure you turn it on casue its often off by default.

Any help?

aGorm

REVENGE wrote:Hey, tell me what "theme" you need it in, and I'll try it as a challenge for my Paint.NET skills.

Err just a rusty / scrap metal kind of thing really, the kind of shape in hte pic above really if you feel up for it


Or this one which is a bit more detailed, but not really needed (the red yould be transparant)

640x480 or 800x600 would be a good res for whatever/if you decide :)

First you need to know if your video program supports an image type that has alpha... IE tga.

Yes it does ^^

I'll follow your instructions and give it a go

Just try this tutorial:
http://www.axialis.com/tutorials/tutorial-misc001.html

toss me a scan of the concept and I will make it for you. I would like the practice.

smoth wrote:toss me a scan of the concept and I will make it for you. I would like the practice.

I would say COMPETITION! but I've got humanities core homework.

if someone wants to turn this into a competition I retract my statement.

Change the white to bright green and key it out.

Dude if ur gonna do a frame!! please make sure it will suit the theme!!
most spring mods are about robots.. so please make it metal like and smooth...not wiggly with bright colours...unless you want the video to look noobish...plus maybe avoid that spring logo.. you know...the spring icon...
would be much better to just write SPRING on a black background with a nice robotic font.plus if u can,avoid jumping from scene to scene.. it wasnt effective the last time you did it.. and i BEG of you try not to show models up close!!!!even though gundam has some nice looking models they still cant match commecrial games models..so no need to show them up close.. show them from afar in big numbers ..

Its not a TA Based mod.

Models are all new / nice, and look good close up, and brownish/rusty/scrap metal suits them (imo)

spring logo has only been used once in it (and well imo)

i intend it to be much better made than any other spring vid ive done ^^

smoth wrote:if someone wants to turn this into a competition I retract my statement.

Pshh, no competition for you. You have the smoth button.

does it have to be rusty? can't it be shiney? If it is shiney I'll do it!