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Thread: New spell images WIP previews
NimoStar
NimoStar


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Legendary Hero
Modding the Unmoddable
posted October 13, 2019 11:10 AM
Edited by NimoStar at 11:36, 13 Oct 2019.

New spell images WIP previews

This will be for 0.20 release of greatest mod, with the help of Karmakeld if possible in converting these in the actual ingames (when resized)


Necromantic background


Martyr


Raise Bone Dragons


Summon Waspwort


Wyvern Health


Summon Beholders


More images will be added occassionally, over 50 spells are already done.

Take into account these screenshots are shared promotionally, actual ingame images for the spells may vary due to resizing, graphic design and other factors.

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RerryR
RerryR


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Supreme Hero
Researching Magic
posted October 13, 2019 03:02 PM

You're modding again? Didn't you say you lost your hard drive?

Good job

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NimoStar
NimoStar


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Modding the Unmoddable
posted October 13, 2019 09:27 PM

As I stated in my mod thread, I recovered it just recently fortunately, so yes

Unless it gets broken ...  
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Laati_maticus
Laati_maticus


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posted October 13, 2019 10:20 PM
Edited by Laati_maticus at 22:21, 13 Oct 2019.

I feel all of those images have too much details. When resized to something like 70x70 (or whatever the image size of spells and skills in H4 are), the images become a blurry mess.


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NimoStar
NimoStar


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Modding the Unmoddable
posted October 13, 2019 10:37 PM
Edited by NimoStar at 02:06, 14 Oct 2019.

64x64 I think, but the previews you showed are still recognizable for me.

I know they are too detailed though and that is just the side effect of making them in 512x512 so they are still useful as concept art as well.

Take into account that each magic school has their unique background so the main purpose of the spells is to be recognizable as the magic school they are in. As long as the "blurry mess" pattern is different from others (so the spell isn't confused), it's something I will live with, since H4 spells include their name in the spellbook.

That being said, I also chose complex examples on purpose to increase hype, many spells are rather more simple shapes.

PD: I checked and spells have both 52 px and 180 px modes, though I am not sure for what 180 px modes are used (Inside spellbook descriptions?)

I think a "cut from around the edges" approach may be used when dealing with the 52 px versions.
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Galaad
Galaad

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posted October 17, 2019 11:43 PM

NimoStar said:
As I stated in my mod thread, I recovered it just recently fortunately, so yes

Unless it gets broken ...  


Make a backup, then a backup of the backup, then another backup. Three backups is the rule or so I heard.
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NimoStar
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posted October 18, 2019 07:37 AM

Would like to, but argentinian budget + economic crisis just doesn't allow for those kind of luxuries.

Some day I will get one of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
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Karmakeld
Karmakeld


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posted October 19, 2019 06:22 PM

NimoStar said:
Would like to, but argentinian budget + economic crisis just doesn't allow for those kind of luxuries.

Some day I will get one of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID


Google drive, onedrive, dropbox accounts can be created for free and should be able to give you enough space, though I know it requires you to upload it online.. not sure if that's an additional expense to you..
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NimoStar
NimoStar


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Modding the Unmoddable
posted October 20, 2019 02:31 PM

Not enough space sadly. I have already a MEGA account filled to the 35 gb limit for my country, and that doesn't include any H4 file.

My H4 folders are like 10 gb alone, dropbox doesn't cover that. Only 2 gb... not to mention that already excludes all my other mod projects, base images, and much more.
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NimoStar
NimoStar


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Modding the Unmoddable
posted October 26, 2019 08:55 PM bonus applied by Galaad on 27 Oct 2019.
Edited by NimoStar at 21:22, 26 Oct 2019.

Welp, FINALLY, the new images are here

I got the spell images to work myself, but the process is VERY time consuming,
comparable to a full time job
- nearly 8 hours just to save and adapt all the 193 spell images,
and make them into 180 px and 52 px versions,
and that's JUST for a type of magic.
And that's AFTER making all the new images for a month.

There are 5 other types of magic left,
so I'm not holding much breadth for this.

At least, Nature is done.

This shows a bit of the process.
In the last image you can see how it works at last.






















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kkfkkkfk
kkfkkkfk


Adventuring Hero
Nothing is impossible
posted November 20, 2019 10:21 AM

It's really great art.
I am writing some documents about Mod.
You can contact me if you need help.

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Karmakeld
Karmakeld


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Supreme Hero
posted November 20, 2019 11:17 AM

kkfkkkfk said:
It's really great art.
I am writing some documents about Mod.
You can contact me if you need help.



Please share any documents about modding, we need to gather as much info as possible
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