Official Custom Player Flag Contest

[leiavoia]

how about this:

http://forum.orionsector.com/viewtopic.php?t=213

[ssgjames]

Originally posted by Osweld


Those do not seem to be consistent with the tutorials, they do not use transparent backgrounds and the contest information says that white stands out the best and changes acording to the empire colour, where as grey is the only shade that turns blue in those examples.


Or is the grey supposed to represent the transparent background?


Either way, I wish there was some way of accurately previwing what they look like - fiddling with layers isn't very effective.

Okay... to clarify and restate what I already said...

The GIF files are VISUAL examples to show you what the shapes look like, given a moo blue background and no color layer (exactly what you see when you select the image at the start of a new game). You do not submit files that look like these... if you do, they will be tossed out.

The PNG files are the ACTUAL GAME FILES with white and alpha channel.... if they're not a good example, I don't know what is. If you're seeing odd gray shapes, try opening the files in your graphics program or another browser. I know IE doesn't support PNG transparency, so it'll look funny in explorer.

edit: and if you want to see what they look like, check out Rantz's tutorial on www.moo3.com, he shows you how to effectively preview the pic.

[pablof79]

So far I've seen preety da*mn good flags, specialy those posted @ orionsector.

i have four designs so far, made them with a combination of, autocad and photoshop, lw3d and photoshop.

I know there is a way to do them straight from lw, but dunno how.

anyways, may the best frag-maker I mean, flag-maker win.

[Arnelos]

I've got a few now... my talents with making these things aren't very good, but I had some stock logos I had made for other games that I worked yesterday to ground down to still look good at 32x32 and minimized from that (which was hard).

Worth a shot.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Okay, my new designs are looking MUCH better now, thanks for the heads up and examples!

[pablof79]

Photoshop PNG Save-As or Export to Web question!

ACK!

I am in a dilemma, don't know what to do, if to save-as PNG, and have not the option to save alpha channel (weird I know) or to export to web and specify save transparency.

If I save it, it will generate a bigger PNG than exporting it, also, the files look identical, and are both aliased with transparency, but I do not know if they'll work.

Sorry if the question seems confusing I will try again.

Two options:

1) Save-as PNG which will only tell me that I can only save as copy.

2) Export to PNG which will ask me if I want to save transparency.

Both generate 1,4kB or 1,2kB sized files.

Any ideas?

Maybe it's just me,... and everything should work either way...

'elp...?

Edit: Is there a naming convention? I assumed it is just Flag1_p79.png, Flag2_p79.png, etc...