Mountainside Textures

Zippy · Post by **Zippy** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:30 pm

Cutmanmike wrote:Sorry, what I mean by that is the magic wand tool isn't reliable enough (for me anyway). You'll still get bits of cyan in the image unless you rearrange the selection yourself.

Probably because you have the wand tolerance set to a non-zero value. What you should do is set the wand tolerance to zero and click on the cyan to select all pixels which are cyan, then right click and do "select inverse" to get what you want.

Tormentor667 wrote:@ggg - That won't work as well because the edges get blurred and partially transparent, so another cyan problem here... Sad Doesn't anyone have new hires mountains maybe?

It works just fine. After blurring the edges there will be some transparency that "bleeds" onto the cyan, but it is ridiculously quick to clean up. The whole deal probably wouldn't take more than 15 minutes if you went slow.

Medricel · Post by **Medricel** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:05 pm

Five minutes in Photoshop to blur the edges and save as 24-bit PNGs.

Note: Personally, I think perhaps the alpha needs a but of tweaking, but tell me if this is at least a little better. I don't know if GZDoom will put out all shades of the transparency, though...

Also, a note concerning the wand tool and selecting cyan in Photoshop:
Set your Tolerance to 0.
Turn OFF the Contiguous option.
Click any pixel of cyan.

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:41 am

Well, it's unfortunately not better because the textures still have the same size

David Ferstat · Post by **David Ferstat** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:26 am

Tormentor667 wrote:@ggg - That won't work as well because the edges get blurred and partially transparent, so another cyan problem here... Doesn't anyone have new hires mountains maybe?!

Have you visited The Wadfather yet?

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:35 am

Sure but there are no mountains I could use

Does anyone know if there is a hq3x filter for Photoshop?

skadoomer · Post by **skadoomer** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:53 am

take a trip to the your nearest mountain range with a hi-res camera. Problem solved.

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:26 am

The nearest mountain range in Germany are the Alps... just about 200km away from here

David Ferstat · Post by **David Ferstat** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:33 am

Tormentor667 wrote:Sure but there are no mountains I could use Does anyone know if there is a hq3x filter for Photoshop?

Uhh ... are you sure? If you check out their "Environment Maps" section you'll see all their art for skyboxes. Surely there's something there you like.

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:07 am

The problem here is that I most likely have to cut out the mountains by hand... one of the jobs I hate most when working with pixel graphics as the mountains must fit in both dark and light background environments and thats the hard thing about it

Grubber · Post by **Grubber** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:41 pm

Tormentor667 wrote:Sure but there are no mountains I could use Does anyone know if there is a hq3x filter for Photoshop?

hq2/3/4x isn't good on photos, it's better suited for cartoon graphics.

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:54 pm

Uh well... thx for that Grubber but the edges look strange in some parts... I will try these out and check if it looks better ingame though. Thank you

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:12 pm

No luck finding that sky texture torm, care to post it?

Post by **NiGHTMARE** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:11 pm

You can always manually adjust the edges of Grubber's pics.

solarsnowfall · Post by **solarsnowfall** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:18 pm

Might they look better scaled down via HIRESTEX? They are friggen huge...

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:36 pm

Sure scaled down, otherwise they are by far too large

Right now I'm mapping a few parts for TNT3 so this might take a while ...