Art Editing for Dummies (tutorial) :D

[FrostyBoy]

http://www.civer.f2s.com/howtomod.shtml

I whipped this up, so don't expect a flash site with spell checking. hope its useful

[Heed]

For those using PSP just increase colour depth to 16 million (instead of the photoshop conversion to RGB) and then reduce back down to 256 when you're done editing. In PSP, the green and purple are the _last_ two colours in the colour palette (colours--> edit palette)-- index value 254 for the green and index value 255 for the purple.

Heed.

[FrostyBoy]

thanks heed

[Qnuc.dk]

Thx Sn00py


I'll read and edit some art

[Heed]

np, snoop. I'm downloading your completed mod pack now-- screenshots look really sweet. One thing: the irrigation, I'm using your mod and I like it better than Firaxis' effort, but it would be nice to see farms. I've taken a crack at this myself without much luck. Would it be possible to do lush green land; rather than a "ricepaddyish" look?

Kind of something like this:





Thanks,

Heed.

[FrostyBoy]

That image is not loading, i'd be interested to see it

Irrigation is so hard

[Heed]

Hmm, not sure why it's not showing up, it loads fine for me. It's a small cutout of a fairly high res aerial shot of some farmland in Canada. I know what your'e saying about the difficulty involved with irrigation-- as I said, I tried myself, and had some decent results in some areas, but others looked simply bad.

I'll upload a small zip with the pics if you want to check them out:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kbyiers/FarmPics.zip

Heed.

[Qnuc.dk]

Somebody who would share some art making knowledge?

what program you use or where you can DL small art images
or what program to make flc animations

paint shop pro 7 or photoshop 6 and animatio shop 3 can be used for editing

But how to make art or animation? or where to DL images and animations


I (we) want
- what software program to use for making
- where to get art software files to edit

[FrostyBoy]

I use Photoshop 6, and an artist doesn't find images, he/she draws them, except for when he/she needs to know what something looks like.




I'm not sure of all the programs that support FLC files, I remember one old program that I used to use in High School called...Animator, I think thats what it was called, and it supported FLC.


Heed, I've been trying to find an image like that, thanks!
But now that I look at it, I see that there is little detail in the farms, and I wonder if it will look good on civ3

i guess I will have to try it

[Bubba_B]

You Da Man!!

Thanks Snoopy,

Not many people will share this kind of info freely.

Can't wait to edit my own graphics.

Again ty

[ancient]

umm can you edit the art in the game with Paint?

[Plumbean]

Plumbean

Thanks snoopy
There are alot of us that dont have this info

[FrostyBoy]

ancient, you could draw it, but you wouldn't be able to get Civ3 to load it properly.

I've changed the location of the tutorial

http://www.civer.f2s.com/howtomod.shtml

[ancient]

thats too bad i want to make all off the land/units look like cartoony..

Make the units simple icons, not actually what they are..

[C Chulainn]

This URL seems to be bad... I try to connect and get "Cannot Find Server"