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Content creation => Texturing and 2D Art => Tutorials => Topic started by: Vlad on July 24, 2013, 01:19:52 am

Title: [Tutorial] Custom Character Select Background
Post by: Vlad on July 24, 2013, 01:19:52 am
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Title: Re: [Tutorial] Custom Character Select Background
Post by: stoneharry on July 24, 2013, 07:12:46 am
Good tutorial, although I was expecting the use of M2's for 3d rendering. :P

For this image: http://gyazo.com/daf55fd27eff4ddd621707f093eda43b.png (http://gyazo.com/daf55fd27eff4ddd621707f093eda43b.png" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

USE JPG's!!111!

It's -huge- (file size). There is no need. You do not need a super high quality or an alpha layer or any of the functionality PNG supports. Just use JPG which will reduce the file size to around 200-300KB maximum. Bandwidth is a limited thing.
Title: Re: [Tutorial] Custom Character Select Background
Post by: Vlad on July 24, 2013, 07:19:09 am
We will model our own background with our modeling team closer to Beta-B-ish.

But for Alpha, we just used a flat image, so I just wanted to share it, since everyone I talked to didn't know how to do this.
Title: Re: [Tutorial] Custom Character Select Background
Post by: PhilipTNG on July 24, 2013, 07:19:51 am
Quote from: "stoneharry"
Good tutorial, although I was expecting the use of M2's for 3d rendering. :P

For this image: http://gyazo.com/daf55fd27eff4ddd621707f093eda43b.png (http://gyazo.com/daf55fd27eff4ddd621707f093eda43b.png" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

USE JPG's!!111!

It's -huge- (file size). There is no need. You do not need a super high quality or an alpha layer or any of the functionality PNG supports. Just use JPG which will reduce the file size to around 200-300KB maximum. Bandwidth is a limited thing.

Yeah what he said, Use Puu.sh!!!  the images are jpeg's...

http://puu.sh/3KlLO.jpg (http://puu.sh/3KlLO.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)
Title: Re: [Tutorial] Custom Character Select Background
Post by: Shadowjesper1 on July 24, 2013, 11:58:49 pm
Wait, you still have the falling leaves and such.

Isn't there a much more simpler version to add a .BLP instead of a .m2, than splitting a picture up in 9 pieces?
Title: Re: [Tutorial] Custom Character Select Background
Post by: Vlad on July 25, 2013, 06:30:13 am
Firstly, it's 6 pieces, not 9..

Second, the M2 file dictates where the pieces are "placed".

One does not simply replace M2 with BLP.
Title: Re: [Tutorial] Custom Character Select Background
Post by: Смердокрыл on January 10, 2016, 08:41:57 pm
Why is this removed?