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Big B -> RE: Modding Ships, need some help (1/1/2017 5:47:19 PM)
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Hello Vipersp,
Creating a ship transparency is a simple copy-paste process using basic MS Paint.
As illustrated below -
1) Take a cell with your new ship on a blank background
2) Take a blank background filled with the proper shade of purple/magenta taken from an existing stock transparency.
3) In MS Paint, on the Select menu drop-down, select transparent selection; then copy the ship box in step 1, and paste it onto the purple background box in step 2
4) Using the same color as the purple background, use the Fill to eliminate the black border
There you have it!
(the example quality looks poor because this is a .jpg, not a .bmp)
B
EDIT: There is one extra step I recommend you do when creating a ship transparency. I did not do this in the example below, but I do on my ship transparencies.
Shading ---- shading is used, usually on the bow and Foc'sle to get smooth blends for bow rake on a sky background (ship side). In the example below you see a smooth rake on the blank...but on the transparency it shows some very light lines.... which should Not be there.
This looks poor IMO, so when creating a ship transparency I always go back and eliminate the lightest shading in these areas.
The result on a dark sea background looks much smoother....which is more appropriate.
[image]local://upfiles/16855/807A73C6DB00455B948E34CF24C02E51.jpg[/image]
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