Speculative Graphics Showcase

[Cyrion]

And even though it's not easy, posting a pic after the amazing units above, here the latest one: the mighty, indestructible, fire-proof and somewhat staggering golem!

[St Leo]

Rhapsody is total crap.

[Catfish]

Originally posted by Cyrion
Anybody willing to provide a witch (Esme Weatherwax actually)? Not a flying one (I arlready use 1), but standing, with a "dress", pointy hat, all in black, maybe holding a broom?

It took me about a minute to mod the witch in my units collection, above. Unfortunately, it's 24-bit and too big.



Edit: Ah, what the hell:

Originally posted by Cyrion
...could someone "recolour" the lady's dress in the attached picture in pink instead of white?

I imagine that'll be tough to do well. Look what's on offer in the pink range for Civ2's palette.

[St Leo]

Catfish, that looks a bit too blurry. The purple shouldn't be anti-aliased.

Downgrading steps:
1. Select the witch. I think drawing a square and then ctrl-clicking with the magic wand in the purple will do it.
2. Load the Civ2 palette.
3. Resize the witch.
4. Copy and paste into an existing blank traditional tile.

[Catfish]

Originally posted by St Leo
Catfish, that looks a bit too blurry. The purple shouldn't be anti-aliased.

What are you gibbering about, man? The first witch is a bitmap for ToT with no anti-aliasing. The second witch is a gif with the Civ2 palette loaded, also with no anti-aliasing. Proof that people don't read my tutorials (Edit: a reference to a comment in another thread).

Edit: Just a comment about resizing graphics; you really shouldn't resize in 8-bit colour. Increase to 24-bit and then load the Civ2 palette later. In the witch example, I didn't use Resize, instead I sliced pieces off the original, so anti-aliasing wasn't an issue. Unit selection and anti-aliasing removal can be achieved much more efficiently using scripts.

[Cyrion]

Thanks Catfish, the unit is excellent!

I just can't wait to try it in game!

[Catfish]

I haven't tried it out, myself, but I figure it will look like a smaller version of the one in the screenshot, above. I'm also unfamiliar with the character, so I hope it fits the bill.

[St Leo]

Never mind. I like gibbering. Let's just say I had a good reason for believing you screwed up.

[Catfish]

And what's that? BTW, I had a look at it in-game and decided the shadow needed tweaking (Re-uploaded it - although I still see the old one - must be my cache).

[Catfish]

Originally posted by Cyrion
...could someone "recolour" the lady's dress in the attached picture in pink instead of white?

I remembered this request and thought I'd see how badly it would turn out. I casually replaced the colours in her dress with shades of the available fleshy pink, using PSP's Color Replacer tool. As a result I also had to change her skin colour from pink to tan. It looks a bit nasty. The level of shading has been reduced considerably.

[St Leo]

Awesome.

[Cyrion]

Thanks Catfish, this is excellent!!

[Catfish]

Well, I guess it ain't that bad, if I don't look too hard.

[Arthedain]

Okay, since at least Academia liked this one I'm gonna post a unit-modification for the first time. I used one of Curt Sibling's units from Bitterfrost. It's supposed to be Sauron or Morgoth (whatever you want).

@ Curt, if you mind me posting this, just tell me and I'll take it away. All credits should go to you since I just edited it a bit.

[curtsibling]

It rocks, the more units the better, man!

Being a huge fan of Melkor and Sauron, I must say I love the idea!