arg, whenever i try to save, it goes to the thing that shows your ship spinning around, but it is really slow, then my internets crashes.
what the heck is going on?
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arg, whenever i try to save, it goes to the thing that shows your ship spinning around, but it is really slow, then my internets crashes.
what the heck is going on?
I take it back. figured it out.
editing in photoshop is great. recoloring is no sweat, and magic wand + custom shape tool is cheap and easy. just downloaded the png, fooled with it, uploaded it to photobucket, copied and pasted. nice.
putting copy and paste into the color palette box is stupid, however. haha.
you can skip the upload to photobucket step. copy and paste straight from photoshop (if it's one layer only) works fine
I've begun the laborious process of finding out exactly where the edges of the various bits of the qirex can be found. Should be useful to people who (like me) prefer working on flat textures in photoshop or similar. I have this much done so far:
http://helix.net.nz/~lion/Pictures/W...e/qirextop.png
Only 2 parts of the skin, (6 surfaces effectively) mapped with any certainty so far. goddamn it's slow going :P
Texture so far available here
The texture seems to shift around a fair bit when rotating the ships, so I am not completely sure I'm getting it bang on. but it's a hell of a lot closer than going by only what is there.
also, for those interested: yes, those other parts at the bottom right of the texture correspond to bits you can't alter in the editor.
no, modifying them in photoshop and pasting back to the editor does not allow you to alter those portions of the texture.
Here are my first two efforts, admittedly a bit rubbish. The first is a Feisar going for an usual scheme based on the children's show Fluffy Gardens. The second, which I'm happier with, steals Egg's work on Goteki, slightly modifying it and adding Dogg X to show it's me. More later if I can do them while nobody is looking at work!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26...ng/Ships01.jpg
Nice work bro :)
I like the first one especially - if you could make the writing bigger on the nose side and incorparated a dark grey/blue in there as well I think it would rock :)
Did you let the Skin Editor reduce the colours on your Goteki?
I've found it does a fairly rough job if it. You might be better reducing them in Photoshop first (using Mode / Index Colour / 16 colours ), then pasting it into the Editor. You get more options (like Dithering) and it might give better results.
Oh and first, draw a big single-coloured square over the engine details (the bottom right bit), using one of your chosen 16 colours. That way it won't waste any of your precious 16 during the reduction.
I ought to write up some of these tips sometime.
Hi all, long time no see. Since Pulse is out and it feels like this game was made to be loved by all the little designers out there, I sure feel like coming back to playing more often - let's see if that works out.
For now, I start the fire on custom ship designs - I've seen some cool ones already in another thread, so I felt it's time to give this one a home.
Here's my first attempt: yeah, I totally stole the existing Assegai livery and changed the colors, but hey, Egg's design is so great already! Put the name and logo of my website there instead of the Assegai logo - so this is my official eLhabib-AG-craft.
http://www.elhabib.at/wp-content/upl...el-assegai.jpg
Eager to see everyone's efforts!
yeah a good tutorial site would be nice :) maybe with a gallery too?Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg
i might have a bash at making one tbh if someones up for writing a few tutorials
Thanks for those tips, Egg. Yeah the Skin Editor reduced the Goteki colours. I'll try doing it from Photoshop next time. Cheers!
Edit: And here's my new one using those tips from Egg, though I really think I need to spend some time getting used to the 16 colours thing - I only realised when I indexed it that I was using a bunch of colours that were almost the same, but not, meaning I was wasting slots. Anyway, here's the Mighnight EG.X, based of course on Egg's work:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26...g/Ships03b.jpg
YEEEHAAAA!
Greetings eLhabib! Your name on the side looks so fine that it looks like it was in the original game! I'm sure this thread is going to be a great one!
I'm proud to present the upcoming Laughing Man Craft, based on the logo from this character we all could see on the anime series Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex. I chose Harimau for its large plain surface where I could make the logo big enough. I'm planning to put the text in the white band as in the original logo but in this case around the entire craft.
See you on the race!
Man that is well cool :clap respect
AT LAST! I FOUND THE PASTE BUTTON!
I've been a whole hour making my eyes bleed when doing the Laughing Man Logo on Harimau skin. Then I found this GOD BLESSED thread!
This was my creation by now, tomorrow I'll make it properly with photoshop!
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...iaputa/lmc.gif
THANKS EVERYONE!!!!!
(awesome crafts, I'll have to buy a 4GB ms to download them all!)
I'll try an old-school-EG.r skin for my beloved EG.X within the next days :)
//dogg
that is sweet! :D very pro looking
//nadia
that looks cool too :) the laughing man kicks ass
anyone else done anymore?
Thanks CR4SH3D (man, that's not easy to type!) but I can't really take credit for how they look - I just went over the templates that were already there in the skin editor. When I got home, I loaded them into Pulse and I'm really happy with how they turned out.
Here's a shot of the EG.X in action - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26...idnightEGX.jpg
And here is a modified version of the Goteki with my own 'Dogg' logo - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26...hang/DoggX.jpg
nadia: hey that's awesome! welcome to the wipeoutzone btw!! 8)
Auricom model seems to be missing few triangles.
http://www.omamoka.com/stuff/auricom..._triangles.jpg
//dogg
they look even better in game :P im going to try some more after ive finished this website im doing, its damn lucky someone found the c+p in that though, its impossible to do much other than recolor in the editor
I went for a more subtle approach, I tired skinning the ship entirely with pasted images and while it looked cool I want to somewhat maintain the ships identity so here is what took me hours to make using the skin editor alone, square by square changes here people! lol
Always wanted a touch of red and black on my ship, touch of the dark side (ooohh no thats sounds too Star Warsy) replaced the white and gold. I need to make my number stand out more, DOUBLE ZERO :D
Edit: Number change to 07, cos it looks OK and represents the year the skin was made.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../newnumber.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...egaifinal2.jpg
Here's my current WiP lol:
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9935/qirex1lb1.jpg
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/7123/qirex2fu6.jpg
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/8070/qirex3io4.jpg
Since I'm at work, I'm confined to using the web based app lol.
Sigh. Great skins all! I'm afraid my computer graphics skills will limit my skin to a F7200-esque quality paint scheme...at least at this point! I've got lots of time to work on it before my pretty Pulse UMD crosses the pond, though.
One question: what happens when you click "Publish"? Does this just allow others to view your skin, or can they use it themselves once it's been published?
I accidentally found a couple of shortcuts that might be useful for those who edit the 2D bitmap. :D
Keyboard arrows rotate the 3D model, letters a, s, d and w move the model and on my Spanish keyboard the keys to the left of the backspace key ' and ยก (this is an inverted exclamation mark) zoom in and out.
I know nothing about skinning but I wolud have never thought that the lettering in Qirex's "High speed revolution" would need that kind of deformation to look good in 3D
yeah im interested in the publish thing too, you can only set one ship to it :S so will it allow others to use your skins?
When you click publish it puts the skin in a moderation queue. Once it has been moderated (i.e. checked for obscenity, profanity, etc.) and it has been approved it will appear in the Ship Skin Gallery so that other players can download it. So by publishing it you're agreeing to share it with the community.Quote:
Originally Posted by Medusa
Of course, you could always keep it to yourself... ;)
Great! Thanks foxy! You can be sure I will keep my ugly little skin all to myself when I'm done it.8)
Woah. How the hell do you guys do such detailed skins with just the online editor? Damn!
Ah shite I clicked the publish button during an early stage of using the editor, the skin isn't much of a skin at all it was just one area of the ship I changed at that point, you guys might want to bin it tis a waste of space.
You guys are amazing. Mine looks terrible in comparision. I'm not going to show anyone till it's half-way decent!
I'll post back in about 6 months....
I just tried the skin editor, and once you get the hang of it, it can be very simple.
just a shame it's not an 'offline' editor. it would of made skin making a whole lot quicker to have an app on your pc so you can test them ingame without having to save them on the site first :/
so while i wait for my game to be delivered at least I can make skins and see what they look like on the ships ;)
Ooh, pressing F5 reveals some secrets on this site, therefore I can tell you that some of the extra circuits have these names:
:sonar
- Vostok Reef
- Orcus
- Edgewinter
- Gemini Dam
hold your horses man!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogg Thang
can we have a step by step??!
exactly how did you transfere the skin from the editor to the actual game?
please? :?
The easiest way:
Save the skin (in the editor).
Load WO:Pulse, goto "WIPEOUT-GAME.COM" in the menu, log in and hit the download button. The skin is directly saved to your memorystick and available in the game :)
thanx! I got it. Awesome! :)
Am i the only one who can't find the copy/paste button?
click the small picture of the pallette on the colour picker - then you will see it on the menu bar mate :)
Thanks mate! ;) Didn't see it before.
gah, it's a pain in the ass to get it working for mac. Bummer
all my experimenting so far has been on OSX
does it give a security warning every time you paste into the editor on windows?
Lion - i cant get this editor to work with Firefox on my Intel Mac - it seems a plugin is missing and i cant find where to download it. any hints? :( i want skin editor goodness
I assume you have shockwave installed?