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LizardWarrior
Honorable
Legendary Hero
the reckoning is at hand
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posted January 30, 2012 05:09 PM |
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What kind of picture?The animation(.def)? or portraits?
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jOKOseven
Hired Hero
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posted August 15, 2012 03:36 PM |
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I tried, but I don't know what to do to affect the game.
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Slayer
Adventuring Hero
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posted August 17, 2012 09:39 AM |
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Can you use parts of objects from the map as well? For unit models.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted March 21, 2014 03:00 PM |
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am i blind, or did lw NOT get a qp for his work in this thread? 
(found this thread while trying to find the opacity thread)
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bloodsucker
Legendary Hero
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posted March 21, 2014 04:30 PM |
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fred79 said:
am i blind, or did lw NOT get a qp for his work in this thread?
Yeah!!! This is a thread that definetively DESERVES a QP.
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Macron1
Supreme Hero
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posted April 01, 2014 08:12 PM |
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Edited by Macron1 at 08:37, 02 Apr 2014.
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By the way, finally found, how to totally delete transparent pixels with image magick
For example I have frames of monster made in form of PNG with transparency. When I directly save it as BMP, transparent pixels became black pixels in resulting BMP. Delete them by hands is a pain.
So I run command to each of images I have:
convert -channel matte -threshold 0.0 -channel RGB -fill red -opaque transparent -channel matte -threshold 1. source.png dest.bmp
It's something about making semi-transparent pixels fully transparent, and then make red background (you can point other color), so resulting BMP can be inputed into DEF tool then.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted April 01, 2014 10:50 PM |
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you'll have to forgive me if i don't believe you on april fools. 
would you mind posting some pics, to give a better idea of what/how you mean?
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Macron1
Supreme Hero
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posted April 02, 2014 08:35 AM |
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Edited by Macron1 at 08:38, 02 Apr 2014.
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fred79 said:
you'll have to forgive me if i don't believe you on april fools.
would you mind posting some pics, to give a better idea of what/how you mean?
Just install imagemagick and try it
You need PNGs with transparent shadows/borders and this command will clean picture from them. I tried it yesterday and finally succeded.
Altrough few of pics had transparent pixels on main drawing, so they became holes in it
PS Found receipt here:
http://superuser.com/questions/213336/using-graphicsmagick-or-imagemagick-how-do-i-replace-transparency-with-a-fill-c
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted April 03, 2014 12:26 AM |
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i've tried using imagemagick before, when attempting to animate static trees.
what i wonder is, would this method have the same memory leak issues as the other transparent patch
that's something i'd need to know, before even attempting this.
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kswdiy
Adventuring Hero
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posted April 04, 2014 01:54 AM |
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Edited by kswdiy at 01:59, 04 Apr 2014.
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Macron1 said:
By the way, finally found, how to totally delete transparent pixels with image magick
For example I have frames of monster made in form of PNG with transparency. When I directly save it as BMP, transparent pixels became black pixels in resulting BMP. Delete them by hands is a pain.
So I run command to each of images I have:
convert -channel matte -threshold 0.0 -channel RGB -fill red -opaque transparent -channel matte -threshold 1. source.png dest.bmp
It's something about making semi-transparent pixels fully transparent, and then make red background (you can point other color), so resulting BMP can be inputed into DEF tool then.
I disagree with this operation, it will lose a lot of images.
I tested and compared Photoshop, Photoshop image processed is much better than it.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted April 04, 2014 02:05 AM |
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which version of photoshop?
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kswdiy
Adventuring Hero
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posted April 04, 2014 02:57 AM |
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fred79 said:
which version of photoshop?
I use the current version is cs6.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted April 04, 2014 03:13 AM |
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thought so. can't afford that. i use an older version, that i got from a friend.
i am learning new tricks with it nearly everyday, though. today i learned, how to edit and save gifs. i no longer need the other programs that i used before.
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kswdiy
Adventuring Hero
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posted April 04, 2014 07:45 AM |
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fred79 said:
thought so. can't afford that. i use an older version, that i got from a friend.
i am learning new tricks with it nearly everyday, though. today i learned, how to edit and save gifs. i no longer need the other programs that i used before.
Yes.
We must to leran that how to edit and save gifs.
The most important that how to learn to control 256 palettes.
Now I can conrol 256 palettes and gif files quickly separated into bmp files.
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Macron1
Supreme Hero
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posted April 04, 2014 12:02 PM |
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kswdiy said:
I disagree with this operation, it will lose a lot of images.
I tested and compared Photoshop, Photoshop image processed is much better than it.
Maybe. But i dont have licence for Photoshop, and if there is a lot of images, hand work in PS will eat a hell of free time.
My example is for quick result getting.
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kswdiy
Adventuring Hero
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posted April 04, 2014 12:40 PM |
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Edited by kswdiy at 17:01, 04 Apr 2014.
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Macron1 said:
kswdiy said:
I disagree with this operation, it will lose a lot of images.
I tested and compared Photoshop, Photoshop image processed is much better than it.
Maybe. But i dont have licence for Photoshop, and if there is a lot of images, hand work in PS will eat a hell of free time.
My example is for quick result getting.
Photoshop has a function of batch script.
SorryŁ¬not icons.
Your cmd script only for not multi-level transparency *.png *.tga images.
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Macron1
Supreme Hero
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posted April 04, 2014 04:50 PM |
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Edited by Macron1 at 02:19, 06 Apr 2014.
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kswdiy said:
Your cmd script only for icons and not multi-level transparency *.png *.tga images.
What icons? I used it for full 32-bit transparent PNGs.
My task didnt included multi-level PNGs, why i would write about them? Did you seen any of these multilevel PNGs? I think you imagining things and mistaking PS file format for PNGs.
Another command I found that can be helpful:
convert input.bmp -alpha set -channel RGBA -fill none -opaque #00FF00 output.png
Input file is a some sprite with green background in example (color #00FF00 (RGB)). In output this color is replaced by fully transparent pixels.
And last but not least recipe for today.
convert -page +0+0 input1.png -page +0+20 input2.png -background #00FF00 -flatten output.bmp
This command takes 2 transparent PNGs, first file goes to layer1, second file to layer2 (note that it slided by 20 pixels of Y axis), and then two layers are merged, transparent background replaced by green color (#00FF00) and we have result of merging them as BMP.
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kswdiy
Adventuring Hero
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posted April 06, 2014 06:31 AM |
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Edited by kswdiy at 06:33, 06 Apr 2014.
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But in the PhtoshopŁ¬it have these functions and simple.
They can be written in Photoshop batch scripts.
You cmd scripts only under the conditions for limiting image.
Macron1,good cmd script.
So I still prefer make images in Photoshop.
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