Author Topic: gunsight (Read 892 times)

Mustaine · « **Reply #15 on:** July 13, 2005, 12:28:00 AM »

see how nice and smooth the rim line is on yours?

thats what i was hoping for, like i mentioned, all i gave was the raw file, i have no clue how to get the "halo" effect of the edges.

how do yuo do it, noone has even bothered to explain

SteffK · « **Reply #16 on:** July 13, 2005, 12:43:34 AM »

Is this the sort of thing you were looking for?

Needs testing in AH, not had chance to test it

Pooface · « **Reply #17 on:** July 13, 2005, 05:39:26 AM »

ok mustaine, i went over the lines with blue, and then filled everything in with black. saved, and put it in paint shop pro, but any image editor will do. then try and find the blur or smoothen edges tool, ans just smooth it out a bit. confusing i know, but you'll get the hang of it. then, open the sight with paint, and save as, selecting 256 colour, rather than 24 bit, and your good to go:aok

Waffle · « **Reply #18 on:** July 13, 2005, 09:27:40 AM »

here ya go 73:

Mustaine · « **Reply #19 on:** July 13, 2005, 09:32:08 AM »

dude.. you the man! gonna try it tonight. TY

now how did you do that and get it so smooth LOL

im guessing some type of gaugassion blur or whatever the spelling is lol....

that's the kind of effects i can never figure out how to get right.

Pooface · « **Reply #20 on:** July 13, 2005, 09:57:28 AM »

yeah, i dont know how he got it smooth but kept the colour!

waffle, what image editor did you use for that, and what effect was it?

also, can the sight be in any size?

United · « **Reply #21 on:** July 13, 2005, 09:58:02 AM »

Yep, Im thinking a little gaussian blur myself.

Looks perty.

Mustaine · « **Reply #22 on:** July 13, 2005, 10:03:45 AM »

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Originally posted by Pooface
also, can the sight be in any size?

sights can be 64x 128x 256x or 512x from what i have tried

SteffK · « **Reply #23 on:** July 13, 2005, 02:06:39 PM »

Thats what I tried United... Gausian blur set to 1.0...Might try something a bit bigger

, Nice Job Waffle

Waffle · « **Reply #24 on:** July 13, 2005, 05:28:00 PM »

I use the gaussian blur as well as radial, some times the lens blur.

I usually make the sight first in white using paths, then make a merged copy of the just the white - then duplicate that several times. then you can use the opaciaty on the layers and blur a layer or 2 and blend them, then you can bring out the unblurred layer a bit for the clarity. then merge that with a black layer. Now create a new layer and do your color on it. now take the blacklayer/with sight on it and move it on top of the color layer - Use multiply / luminosity as the layer property and you have your sight -

index it, save it.

I havent tried the 512x512 yet, and I dont think it would be a big issue on performance since its only seen on your FE. Just eats up more texture memory

I'm interested in trying it, and see if I can add in a "ghost" image succesfully that would give the gunsight glass depth.

Mustaine · « **Reply #25 on:** July 13, 2005, 05:32:54 PM »

i tried 512 back in the AH1 days ... didn't have a performance git, but it looked... well... funny

then again all that work was dont in ms paint lol you could count the pixels.

TY for the tips waffle will try myself next time sir!!!!

wrag · « **Reply #26 on:** July 14, 2005, 01:51:12 PM »

Hey nice work!

Grabbed em all