Photoshopping - Mods

Ctennyson · #1 March 1st, 2004, 02:12 AM

Hey again. This could become a regularly scheduled column.

When modding pretenders, everytime I add my own picture for one, I end up with a big black box around the pretender, rather than a regular background. Whats the trick to getting the regular colored background?

Gateway103 · #2 March 1st, 2004, 09:35 AM

My guess is you need a specific colour for the background to act as the transparent in Dom2.

Unfortunately, I have not modded the pic in Dom2 ever, so I can't tell you the exact colour (many other games use bright neon Pink, but not sure about Dom2). Perhaps some of the graphics modders can tell you what the particular colour is.

EDIT: Just did a check, I think it is black... seemed kind of strange... Perhaps I am not thinking stragith at this sleepy hour...

-Gateway103

[ March 01, 2004, 07:41: Message edited by: Gateway103 ]

Gandalf Parker · #3 March 1st, 2004, 04:46 PM

Im not sure if this link to an older thread helps or not
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=000917#000002

Wauthan · #4 March 1st, 2004, 05:01 PM

My only tip is to download a mod that adds units, like the Avatar of Ulm mod, and copy their use of colours.

Davidious · #5 March 1st, 2004, 09:16 PM

Quote:

When modding pretenders, everytime I add my own picture for one, I end up with a big black box around the pretender, rather than a regular background. Whats the trick to getting the regular colored background?

ran into the same problem.

the background color must be black. like pure black, so if you cut and paste them out of the game they lose a little color and the black backgrounds sometimes need redone.

Ctennyson · #6 March 2nd, 2004, 02:20 AM

This pure black thing doesnt seem accurate. I cut the image, added a layer, set background color to 0,0,0 which as far as I know, is pure black, set the image on top, on layer 1, and still a big black box. Well, you can see the image inside the big black box, also.

I have used a working pretender, that I also created, cut the pretender out, pasted the new dude in, and voila, still big black box. I am no photoshop expert, but it cant be this hard.

[ March 02, 2004, 00:24: Message edited by: Ctennyson ]