I kind of need help creating a ship for ev nova from scratch. When i attemted to do this i ended up with a cool ship but when it went over planets it was in a black box. I think it has to do with masks or something. Help please.
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Originally posted by FireStrike:
**I kind of need help creating a ship for ev nova from scratch. When i attemted to do this i ended up with a cool ship but when it went over planets it was in a black box. I think it has to do with masks or something. Help please.**
Yes, it indeed has to do with the mask. What kind of computer do you have (i.e. Mac or PC), what editor do you use, and are the actual images in form of Pict or Rles?
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This is because you made a square mask. The mask should cover only the nonblack parts so that only the ship will be loaded, not the black around it.
Also, if you didn't do this, I highly recommend that if you want to make your ship even better-looking, use the LASIK technique:
- render your ship at double the in-game size
- open it in Photoshop and do an Unsharp Mask (Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask in 5) filter (I hope you have Photoshop—it's our main 2D graphics program)
- resize it to 50% of its sizeIf you don't understand how this does anything, this should help you out:
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Originally posted by orcaloverbri9:
**This is because you made a square mask. The mask should cover only the nonblack parts so that only the ship will be loaded, not the black around it.Also, if you didn't do this, I highly recommend that if you want to make your ship even better-looking, use the LASIK technique:
- render your ship at double the in-game size
- open it in Photoshop and do an Unsharp Mask (Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask in 5) filter (I hope you have Photoshopit's our main 2D graphics program)
- resize it to 50% of its sizeIf you don't understand how this does anything, this should help you out:
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You really didn't help much on the masks... Here are the basics for mask making. The first way to ensure a good mask is to use black and white as the two mask colors. Black is masked, white isn't, which is to say that your ship should be a white silhouette on a black background for it to appear properly. To ensure that you have only black and white in the mask, I found that you can just go into Photoshop and turn the contrast all the way up so there's only black and white and nothing in between. It's possible that you screwed up the mask in some way so that there isn't black for the mask and it's seeing a square as your sprite, rather than just the ship if you had a proper mask.
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