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 Ship icon tutorial
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| Sun Tzu |
Posted on 12-05-2006 22:32
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Attached is the method I have used to make relic style ship icons, with information about icons format and mapping.
Edited by Sun Tzu on 13-05-2006 13:24 |
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| TelQuessir |
Posted on 13-05-2006 07:28
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Right, is this the time for a "OMG we're all gonna die" line?  |
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| mrWHO |
Posted on 13-05-2006 10:51
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OMG we're all gonna die!!  ...so when you will release this tutorial (don't forget to zip or rar it before attaching) ? Edited by mrWHO on 13-05-2006 12:31 |
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| Sun Tzu |
Posted on 13-05-2006 13:28
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*five-minute string of medieval curses* That f*$? forum software does not accept the zipped file. EDIT: for mysterious reasons, it accepted this one, perhaps because it's unformatted text and therefore harder to read  :sigh:
Sun Tzu attached the following file:
Edited by Sun Tzu on 13-05-2006 13:32 |
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| mrWHO |
Posted on 13-05-2006 13:58
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Umh, offtopic: Sun Tzu what's in your avatar? It looks like Silent Hill zombie dresses in pirate suit to me |
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| Sun Tzu |
Posted on 13-05-2006 17:37
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mrWho, you've just proved yourself a remarkable sci-fi illiterate :bigrazz:
Edited by Sun Tzu on 13-05-2006 17:42 |
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| mrWHO |
Posted on 13-05-2006 18:00
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Sun Tsu I have a question: Could you make those files I attached into ship icons (they already in .tga format)? Also could you write a shipicon.lua for them? I tried to do it myself but failed. This shipicon would be brand new because I would use it in mod that have no icons (exept stock derelict icon that is attached to every ship that have no icon). Edited by mrWHO on 13-05-2006 21:23 |
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| yasotay |
Posted on 13-05-2006 21:15
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Well technically Mr. Who the good Le Sun Tzu has acquired his avatar from the classic SF movie "Blade Runner" were it is a toy developed by one of the Bio-Engineers. In turn it is a subtle acknowledgement to one of the classic SF writers for his book on a society of teddybears with a very militaristic outlook on life. The name of the author and book(s) escape me, but it was around in the 1960s and 70s... ancient history. |
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| Jas86 |
Posted on 13-05-2006 21:19
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Do Machines Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick Thanks for the Turtorial, Sun, it rocks. "Man, have pity on man."
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| mrWHO |
Posted on 13-05-2006 21:28
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I attached the file related to my upper post Edit: Damn the atachement, here is the link: http://files.filefront.com/final_2rar/;5060931;;/fileinfo.html Edited by mrWHO on 13-05-2006 21:44 |
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| mrWHO |
Posted on 14-05-2006 19:03
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Forget about uppeer post. I mannaged to put icon ingame, but I have a problem. In place of stock derelict icon I see only my icon background (blank or black) but no ship itself. I attach one of my icons. Please help. EDIT: Never mind, I found what I'm doing wrong, silly, silly me
Edited by mrWHO on 14-05-2006 19:18 |
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| Sun Tzu |
Posted on 15-05-2006 00:23
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Posts: 528 Joined: September 08 2005 |
I'm glad you found the bugs. Nice icons too. |
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| Homdax |
Posted on 15-05-2006 16:02
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Make an article of it. Use link "Submit Article" in navigation above. I am not a very big fan of medieval curses. I would prefer to find out what You did and what happened to narrow down the cause of yer cursing. To fix it. Edited by Homdax on 15-05-2006 16:05 king-o'da'bigfile
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| Sun Tzu |
Posted on 15-05-2006 16:32
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Sorry, I don't know how medieval curses sound in ole Swedish. In French they can be rather tasty Seriously: I wrote the tutorial in MS word, saved the file with the usual .doc extension, zipped it with OSX built-in utility, which gave a name like "PDS Icon Tutorial.doc.zip". When I realised the problem, I renamed it to "PDS Icon Tutorial.zip", assuming the issue was the double extension. It did not work. Then I copied the text, pasted it and saved it with a text-edit utility (subethaedit), then zipped it with the same OSX utility with the name "PDS_Icon_Tutorial.zip". I agree the method was not very scientific for debug purposes since I changed several things at a time to fix the issue. And I did not think of the article. I'll do that. |
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| Homdax |
Posted on 15-05-2006 16:49
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Spaces, my dear friend, spaces. Spaces in filename. NONO. See, fixed. 
king-o'da'bigfile
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