Firstly, if you dont know what programs you are supposed to be
usin' cause you didnt read the simple part first, go there real
quick and read the top part. Otherwise, please feel free to partake
in the many joys of decifering the symbols in the following paragraphs
which will, hopefully, allow you to transmogrifier your own objects.
ie.. read on. 8) Hey everyone, that was smaz's lame attempt at humour,
yay!!!
Go To Simple Object Makin'
Okay, well, export the object you want to create, only this time,
in the object export window, unclick the just change colors box
and click the all channels, one zoom thing. Now, here's the thing
there are three graphics now for each one there was in the color
change mode. There is now one that is a white silouette of the object,
and one that is kind of a grey/shading version of the object. The
white/black one defines the parts of your new graphic that will
show. so basically, all you have to do with this, is make sure that
whatever you do to the primary graphic that the black sillouette
is an exact sillouette, if its to big, you will see parts of your
background(the yellowness) in your picture in the actual game, if
its to small, you wont see parts of your graphic at all. Now as
for the gray graphic, just copy the white/black silloutte, and make
the black part white, and the white part an even light gray, but
not to light, or your object well be covered over by objects behind
it. How do you do this?
just paint the whole screen, you will see it only colors inside
the selection. Now you have made the white part gray. Now go to
selection-inverse. This will make it so the black is selected, now
paint the whole picture white. and you are done, good for you. now
here is the thing, this is the important part. You want to change
the original image, but the program keeps whining whenever you do
something interesting. Well, you have to change the color mode.
Go to format-data type-48bit RGB. Now you can use all the funky
effects this program has to offer. what are they?? well you can
paint stuff now and it will look nicer and smoother, but you can
also use filters and everyfing. Check out the effects menu and play
around. When you are done changing the main graphic you have to
change the mode back to index again. so go to format-data type-256color
index. Then click save as, and you will see a pull down menu of
all the different types of files you can save it as. You want to
save it as a BMP, or bitmap. Important, dont forget that your gray
picture and silloutte have to match the original picture exactly,
DO NOT worry that the gray picture doesnt look 3d or anything, it
will work fine if you basically just make it a gray siloutte.
WAIT!!!!!!!!!!
You arent exactly done yet, well you have to import the object
back into the transmogrifier, then close the transmog and you are
all done. Dont forget to change the description and stuff though.
Now, This will take a while the first time you do it, but after
a while youll get a lot quicker, by a while, i mean a few days if
you keep at it, so its worth it. Learn how to copy and paste grapic
states for different frames and stuff like that so that you dont
have to do the same thing over and over if you want to make little
changes between frame annimations. Learning how to use the program
will help a lot to. When it comes right down to it though, photoshop
is the best program for this kinda thing out there, so if you can
get a hold of that, do so. If you want to learn how to use photo
impact there are a ton of tutorials on the web. Although i think
ive told you everything i know, to get the full potentional of object
making it really helps to know the program you are using quite well.
Now, you may also have noticed that this program has 30 day trial
period before you cant use it anymore. well, there are things that
can be done about this. *wink wink.* Its called a crack, and will
make that pesky 30 day thing go away. I will put a link to it up
here, but i dont want to host the actual file cause geocities may
kick me off. Here it is.
http://storm.prohosting.com/~bark/Ulead_PhotoImpact_6.0_Demo.zip
Just click again to Download the file. Follow the instructions
on the read me inside, its all pretty simple really. Well if you
have any questions at all email me at smaz123@home.com 8)
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