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Psychout wrote:- the hardest part is separating the bits you want to colour.

I will deffinately agree with that(especially on black, white and grey vehicles) haha.


Stinger, you should be able to do it with any picture type. Which program are you attempting these with? The two main programs, while essentially the same, are still slightly different.

Well. The part that angers me the most is the one with the background o.o Everytime I try to delete it, so it gets transparated. (I hope this is the right english word for it XP ) When I try to save it, my programm says I can't o.o' Why is that??

Which background would this be? The white background you add in as a layer(you do not get rid of this). Or the background of the image, like a road or street? In this case i find it easiest to use 'Tools>Selection Tools>Free Select' take it little by little and once you have an area outlined, just simply hit the delete key on the keyboard. If you are using Gimp for this, i could do another video sometime this weekend with a few "tricks of the trade" that i've been using at various times. I also need to remake the other two as i've got an updated way to do it. But this would not be til end of weekend due to being quite possibly running on fumes til maybe sunday night or monday due to a festivle in town.

Edit: Never mind, got it.

And I present Grimlock. Think I overdid the Drop Shadow. Oh well.




And Terra Khan (Image taken from Monsterpocalypse fan site kit.)




Worked out where I went wrong on Grimmy with Terra Khan.

Also, thanks Raphael Prime, the tutorial helped.

Not too bad Kaiju. But yes, the dropshadow on Grimlock is wrong. I think you forgot to make the offset's 0, instead of 5(or 8 whichever it is that is there automatically.)

And Khan looks pretty good.


Mustang Mach 1


Mustang

Psychout wrote:Thats odd. Try cutting round the foreground and 'copy' then 'paste as new image'. It should give you a new image with a transparent background.

It worked ^_^ Cool! Now I can work on! Maybe I post some later

Raphael Prime wrote:Not too bad Kaiju. But yes, the dropshadow on Grimlock is wrong. I think you forgot to make the offset's 0, instead of 5(or 8 whichever it is that is there automatically.)

And Khan looks pretty good.

Yeah, that's exactly what happened, so instead of a general blur behind the image it ended up with a large black mass. I'll probably go back and try it again at some point.

Universe/RID Bruticus


Godzilla



I'm leaving some parts of the image fully opaque so that there are some details when the images get recoloured by players. Do tell if I shouldn't be doing this.

Kaijubot wrote:I'm leaving some parts of the image fully opaque so that there are some details when the images get recoloured by players. Do tell if I shouldn't be doing this.
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Thats right, its only the colour to be changed that needs to be made transparent, other details can be left solid which helps to add the detail.

Here's a handful more: G1 Bristleback, Universe 1.0 Snarl, Armada Airazor, Cybertron Repugnus and Grimlock redux.

Slight update to my Gimp Tutorial vids. Don't need to go back and redo all your alts, they're fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M-yvHZ5y2A

This should be done when creating the part that will be changing colors by the users.

Love the tune you picked Raph, good call!

Right time for a bit of an update...

Eurofighter


F-15


Abrams Tank


M60 Patten Tank


Chieftain Tank


Thanks to Kaiju and Raph for your help guys - keep up the great work (although a few gadget-types ones would be appreciated ) - but is no one else interested in getting their handiwork in the new game?
The more of these you guys help to make, the more choice you'll have in the game...

Psychout wrote:Love the tune you picked Raph, good call!


Thanks to Kaiju and Raph for your help guys - keep up the great work (although a few gadget-types ones would be appreciated ) - but is no one else interested in getting their handiwork in the new game?
The more of these you guys help to make, the more choice you'll have in the game...

Which one(theres actually 2 on there, the Dope and CKY)? Funny how fast youtube has come to picking up songs in videos like, they identified the Dope tune within about 1-2 minutes after i upped it by just that small amount haha.(though apperently it didn't pick up the CKY one)

I'm having a blast doing these. I may not have done all that many yet(Cause some parts can get frustrating haha), but they're fun to do.

Some Bots and weapons(figure bot modes gotten from Seibs' galleries):

Ramulus


Rattrap


Can't remember who this at the moment, but will edit this when i can get through the MTMTE pages


Windstalker(For my Maxi commrade)


Concussion Rifle version 1


Concussion Rifle version 2


Energo Sword

Edit: This is getting to be a long post.

RotF Arcee, Robot Mode


G1 Goryu (Shell)


Energon Doomlock


BW Scarem


BW Transmetal Tarantulas


BW Transmetal 2 Black Arachnia


Transmetal 2 Cybershark


BW Depthcharge


BM/RiD Air Attack Optimus Primal


BM Archadis (Image taken from the request thread).


BM Striker


BM Triceradon


And some none TF alts.

Giganotosaurus (taken from here}


McFarlane's Dragons - Fire Clan 1 and 2, Berserker Clan x and y (I can't remember which they were).





An iPod


Sega Megadrive (or Genesis for the Yanks)


and just for Psychout

B.C. Rich Guitars

Warlock


Beast


Mockingbird



And fullfilling a request

Megazord


Dragonzord


Added bonus to request

Dragonzord Battle Mode


Tyrannosaurus Dinozord

And more...
In no particular order

Yokuryu


Ravage (RotF)


And some robot modes

Wreckage


Hoist


Deep Desert Brawl


Demolishor


RotF Sideswipe

Some prehistoric alts.

Deinonychus


Dravidosaurus


Achelousaurus


Edmontonia


Einiosaurus


Kentrosaurus


Rariraptor


Stygimoloch


Styracosaurus



From request thread.

Lightsaber


Little update

Lugia(2 versions)



Xbox 360


Playstation 2 Fatty and Slim



Nintendo DS


Sega Dreamcast

Felt I had to do this one, since it's what my namesake is supposed to turn into.



And finally a vehicle

Guys these are fantastic, keep up the great work! Ill be back to help after I delete and reinstall my copy of PSP X to restart the free trial this weekend

One quick note though,

Kaijubot wrote:finally a vehicle

Could you please make sure the main colour layer is black and white, otherwise the original colour will bleed through into the colour changer, and that might look a bit odd...

Psychout wrote:Guys these are fantastic, keep up the great work! Ill be back to help after I delete and reinstall my copy of PSP X to restart the free trial this weekend

Ya know, with Gimp ya wouldn't have to do that...Just sayin lol.

Raphael Prime wrote:Lugia(2 versions)

Pokmemon alts w00t!!

Psychout wrote:Guys these are fantastic, keep up the great work! Ill be back to help after I delete and reinstall my copy of PSP X to restart the free trial this weekend

One quick note though,

Kaijubot wrote:finally a vehicle

Could you please make sure the main colour layer is black and white, otherwise the original colour will bleed through into the colour changer, and that might look a bit odd...

Knew I should have used Sideswipe instead. And I'll be honest, I'm not sure how to make it black and white aside from lowering the transparency further.

Is this the only one with a problem?

Hopefully we should be alright, its just that one thats really obvious. You're using GIMP arent you Kaiju? Raph should know how to change the layer to black and white.

Psychout wrote:Hopefully we should be alright, its just that one thats really obvious. You're using GIMP arent you Kaiju? Raph should know how to change the layer to black and white.

Good thing I still have all the original images. I'll wait for Raph to help out before I work on any more (because the next lot I plan to make are quite colourful. Someone might want to go through and check the rest of mine, find any more problematic ones. Most of them look pretty grey when set to the right transparency but a few still have plenty of colour (Hoist is suddenly looking very suspicious).

Out of curiosity, are more icons being made behind the scenes, or is it really just us making them?

Im not sure, Green Lantern of Cybertron was doing some, but I think its just us currently. A certain Australian moderator doesn't seem to be able to get to grips with the incredibly complicated alt making procedure, Sustain is off writing all the mission texts, and christ alone knows where Crazyfists and Caelus are.

Id love to see a few more players helping, but if they don't then they wont get a say in what's included like you guys will. Their loss.

I tried to make an Arcee today, but GIMP is EVIL.

Chaoslock wrote:I tried to make an Arcee today, but GIMP is EVIL.

Really? I'm starting to like the sound of this program, sounds like a challenge...

I'll see if i can't extend a friendly hand to more alt makers and hopefully in the process draw back some lost players who will hopefully return to V2(some of my fellow Maxis, cause we'll need em come the expansion)


Kaiju, scroll up a little bit, there should be a link to my youtube with an updated video showing how to get it to black/white.


Chaos, Gimp can be evil sometimes(especially when dealing with a lot of selected area as i found out recently on a couple alts *points finger at Zordon and his zords* lol)..but once you accomplish a couple of them it becomes fairly easy. I can make an alt in about 10 minutes or less, depending on what needs to be removed and all.


And Tomasemily, there's plenty Poke-alts in the game already, and i got quite a few sprites and art from the games to use for more, so expect more. I may try out some other similar games, deffinately gonna be a couple Monster Rancher ones.