This doesn't have anything to do with EV, but if you guys could check out my website and give me some suggestions I'd be grateful: (url="http://"http://www.freewebz.com/nick014/index.htm")http://www.freewebz....ck014/index.htm(/url)
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I love them all, but 1. the confed corvette i think its too much like the cruiser as far as looks bring it.
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well unfortuanatly an ad forced this page to change location causing me to lose my entire post. So ill make it breif as the amount of irritation by something like that is phenomenal.
Sky, i dont use rollovers on my site, its done via java. heres that image i said i would make, not the 800x600 i promised tho 
(url="http://"http://www.postnuclear.net/ev/saberstudios.jpg")http://www.postnucle...aberstudios.jpg(/url)
And sky were ya serious bout getting a karma point? heh that would be great
and theres some other stuff , a good two pages of other stuff lost. Arg i hate ads with a passion.
Edit I decided to do something constructive to make up for the lost post heh.
I threw this together for you to see (url="http://"http://www.postnuclear.net/ev/sabersite.jpg")http://www.postnucle...v/sabersite.jpg(/url) . Lemme know what ya think heh.
Its unfortuanate you dont like talk programs :p, i see them as a way of communication, not chatting. But i can understand heh. hope to talk to ya soon. laterz!
Edit2 For your guys amusement, i found my SUPER old EV site. Heh back before i thought of proportions heh. God their soo off. I have this one ship listed as better then kestrel yet its proabably as big as a courier. heh gosh that was the days. (url="http://"http://www.postnuclear.net/ev/ships.html")http://www.postnucle...t/ev/ships.html(/url)
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(This message has been edited by Lucid (edited 12-25-2001).)
(This message has been edited by Lucid (edited 12-25-2001).)
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Originally posted by BariSaxGuy5:
**This doesn't have anything to do with EV, but if you guys could check out my website and give me some suggestions I'd be grateful:http://www.freewebz....ck014/index.htm
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Looks good as far as the layout is concerned. Easy to get around...
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Originally posted by UE Admiral:
**I love them all, but 1. the confed corvette i think its too much like the cruiser as far as looks bring it.(/URL)
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Well, think about it. All Confederation warships look quite similar in shape... The 'Fed Corvette is well under half the size of the cruiser, it's wings are "X" shaped (not a cross), and it has a totally different role.
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Originally posted by UE Admiral:
**well unfortuanatly an ad forced this page to change location causing me to lose my entire post. So ill make it breif as the amount of irritation by something like that is phenomenal.
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Darn, I hate those ads... Sorry 'bout that.
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Originally posted by UE Admiral:
**Sky, i dont use rollovers on my site, its done via java. heres that image i said i would make, not the 800x600 i promised thohttp://www.postnucle...aberstudios.jpg
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It looks good, but keep in mind the general theme of my website. I'd like to keep the font I'm currently using for the Intro text... Your graphic has that nice, bright metal look to it, though.
I see about the "rollovers." Straight java seems to have a tendency to crash browsers as well, though (at least on my machine).
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Originally posted by UE Admiral:
**Edit I decided to do something constructive to make up for the lost post heh.
I threw this together for you to see http://www.postnucle...v/sabersite.jpg . Lemme know what ya think heh.
Its unfortuanate you dont like talk programs :p, i see them as a way of communication, not chatting. But i can understand heh. hope to talk to ya soon. laterz!
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Get out of here! You're making my website look bad or something! 
That looks terrific. It greatly resembles my old Saber Studios website layout as far as colors and such are concerned. If you like, I'll be glad to base my website on what you've got there, as long as I can do some editing. Also, did you create that shipyard section using submission coding, or did you build it piece by piece (like I do)?
Sweet logo as the bottom left corner of the screen.
Nice work. And yes, I was serious about the karma point.
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Lucid: I tried your method several times for making those target images, but I'm getting completely different results. And many of those filters aren't even listed under the categories you had them under. What version of Photoshop are you using?
Find edges seems to work just fine. I get a concept art-appearance, and the outline of the ship is rather obvious. I then invert the image, which usually deletes any additional color. After applying the neon glow, things look bad. No matter how much I toy around with the settings, the results are nothing similar to yours. Did you happen to do some additional editing to the image?
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If you're talking about making those green wireframes, I do it like this:
filter glowing edges smoothness=1 , edge width=1, brightness=10 . Then, I make it b&w;, then I change the color ballance to +100 cyan, yellow, and green.
Edit: here's an example (url="http://"http://www.freewebz.com/nickg14/rebeldestroyerwireframe.jpg")http://www.freewebz....erwireframe.jpg(/url)
If this is not what you were talking about please disregard this post
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(This message has been edited by BariSaxGuy5 (edited 12-26-2001).)
Skyblade: Few (very, very few) things on this earth are as hideous as the standard EV target graphics. That green looks pretty bad. I suggest you find a better way to make the targets; maybe do like EVula did in one plug-in, and use shrunken shipyard views. It looks much nicer. Or do something (not the same thing, of course, but you know what I mean) like Meowx did in MAGMA. Don't be bound by the traditional, ugly target graphics.
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Originally posted by ares1:
**Skyblade: Few (very, very few) things on this earth are as hideous as the standard EV target graphics. That green looks pretty bad. I suggest you find a better way to make the targets; maybe do like EVula did in one plug-in, and use shrunken shipyard views. It looks much nicer. Or do something (not the same thing, of course, but you know what I mean) like Meowx did in MAGMA. Don't be bound by the traditional, ugly target graphics.
**
Most people prefer the ugly green wireframe target graphics since they blend in with the other EV graphics. I can understand they aren't the best looking, but I also realize how bad nice-looking target graphics look when mixed with the regular EV counterparts. I might develop different types of target graphics for each ship...
Bari: Sounds good. I'll try out that method as soon as I can.
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Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
**Most people prefer the ugly green wireframe target graphics since they blend in with the other EV graphics. I can understand they aren't the best looking, but I also realize how bad nice-looking target graphics look when mixed with the regular EV counterparts. I might develop different types of target graphics for each ship...
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Gah! I hate the wireframe! Change the sidebar if you have to, because I'd love to see different target graphics.
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I prefer the wireframe myself, as the mac I have is too slow to comprehend extremely advanced graphics (we got it for free off of my dad's work's trash heap basically), but I would probably prefer a wireframe anyway, as it's supposed to be a radar readout of the ship, not a picture of it.
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Originally posted by BariSaxGuy5:
I prefer the wireframe myself, as the mac I have is too slow to comprehend extremely advanced graphics (we got it for free off of my dad's work's trash heap basically)
Moot point, the graphics aren't any more "advanced" than the original target graphics (both are a simple PICT resource).
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Originally posted by BariSaxGuy5:
it's supposed to be a radar readout of the ship, not a picture of it.
Actually, that is a good point... however, not everything in a game should be "real".
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There's a simple solution to the whole target grahpics thign ... make them all!
That is, make both a wireframe target graphic and a color one (perhaps two color ones - one a "shipyard" one (3/4 view) and a top-down one?)
P.S. Skyblade, how are the grahpics going? Have you done a Rebel Escort Carrier yet? When can we expect the ships we see here to be put on the shipyard sites - masks, comm pics and all - yet?
Also, are you still going to do the UE set for EVO?
God bless,
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Originally posted by EVula:
**Moot point, the graphics aren't any more "advanced" than the original target graphics (both are a simple PICT resource).
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What I meant was the more detail on a graphic the slower it runs, and my computer has a very dated (to say the least) processor and visual support. But whatever the reason, the complex pictures make my game run slower.
Edit: confusing sentence structures
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Originally posted by UE Patriot:
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P.S. Skyblade, how are the grahpics going? Have you done a Rebel Escort Carrier yet? When can we expect the ships we see here to be put on the shipyard sites - masks, comm pics and all - yet?
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Once you all stop bogging me down with millions of requests! Just kidding there, but it's hard getting everything done in such a small amount of time... I've mostly been working on new target graphics. No new models yet.
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Originally posted by UE Patriot:
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Also, are you still going to do the UE set for EVO?
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Most likely, but don't know when at this time.
Since we can't seem to make up our minds as to what kind of target graphics we like, I made a type that isn't wireframe, yet mixes well with the original EV menubar. You'll have to visit (url="http://"http://saberstudios.evula.net")Saber Studios(/url) to see them, though (Darnit, EVula!). Go to the shipyard. Also, the Rebel and Confederation Cruiser are now up for download.
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one word: brilliant!
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Originally posted by BariSaxGuy5:
**one word: brilliant!
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Good! Someone finally agrees on a single style of target graphics! I spent more time on those target graphics than any other type I've done before, so it's good to hear the time payed off...
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I've tried working on ships before, but they all tended to die except for now. FINALLY, I have a semi-presentable ship. It's an alien ship check it out here:
(url="http://"http://www.freewebz.com/nickg14/alien1.jpg")http://www.freewebz....kg14/alien1.jpg(/url)
Skyblade, how do you spin your graphics with photoshop? If you don't know could you spin it for me (if that's too much trouble don't bother)
Edit:fixed the link
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(This message has been edited by BariSaxGuy5 (edited 12-26-2001).)
Captain Skyblade, those targets are perfect. I love them. Keep outdoing yourself, you do.
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Originally posted by BariSaxGuy5:
**I've tried working on ships before, but they all tended to die except for now. FINALLY, I have a semi-presentable ship. It's an alien ship check it out here:
http://www.freewebz....kg14/alien1.jpg
Skyblade, how do you spin your graphics with photoshop? If you don't know could you spin it for me (if that's too much trouble don't bother)
Edit:fixed the link
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That looks pretty good, although the quality is quite low (and your host doesn't provide external linking unfortunately). Aside from the .jpg quality, I like the model.
Well, I don't spin my graphics in Photoshop. I piece my sprites and masks together within it. I export my spin animations out of Infini-D via QuickTime, and copy them into PS frame by frame...
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Originally posted by Jimbob:
**Captain Skyblade, those targets are perfect. I love them. Keep outdoing yourself, you do.
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Good. One style fits all.
Appreciate the feedback.
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Hey sky, feel free to take that site design, it was made for you.
However, I've run into a bit of a stump, seems in a few days I'm about to leave off to new mexico. ooops! I'm truly sorry if I got your hopes up, if not, sorry bout that heh. But I'll leave those there for you to take. Feel free to take those pic(s) and do what you need with them for SS.
I'll get back to you as soon as possible, I got your e-mail in my e-mail account so I'm set. It'll be about a week to a month before im online again. And when I am, I'll be on a new computer, fully capable of full design.
I must say I do feel honored to have (almost, Evula never got to it yet, its okay :p) gotten a karma point within 8 posts :). You guys are great people, I'll miss ya in my absence. But perhaps when I get back I'll have lots of ideas Been writing down quite alot of mission ideas. I plan on making a plug with a real punch to it. Not a graphics showcase :p. Perhaps instead when I get back I could share these ideas with you, I've love to join Saber Studio's development at a later date. But thats future talk, About now, I'm getting ready to go off on my adventure. Being 19, moving out into the mainland leaving everything (actually very little) behind here in hawaii, well , lets just say its got a great deal of my attention.
Sorry to be 'here and gone' but I'll be back. Wonder if this thread will still be active heh. Anyways something to look forward to, when I get back I'll have a lot of resources at my disposal to help you out.
->Peace
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