[Solved] Need help to make tiles look like FSA

oburi

[Solved] Need help to make tiles look like FSA

« on: February 16, 2011, 04:04:07 pm »

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Hi, I hope somebody can help me.
I'm a good spriter (I came here from the rmxp scene) and I started a project. But now I want to make my tilesets look more like FSA.
I found this "filter" with google,

but I don't have any clue how to use it on my tilest.
When I just lay it over the tileset and set a transparency to ~50%, the colours of my tileset aren't very well any longer...
So can anybody explain me please how I would get the best result?
Thanks everybody and please excuse my english, I'm from germany.

« Last Edit: September 06, 2011, 10:39:54 am by MaJoRa »

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Colbydude	Re: {REQUEST} Need help to make tiles look like ... « Reply #1 on: February 16, 2011, 04:59:42 pm »
Reputation: +2/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 1767	I could be wrong, but I believe you will want to overlay and tile the filter during run time of the game. However if you're making a map or something as an image file you'll still want to overlay the filter after you've finished tiling it. If you were to just put the filter on the tileset some parts of the filter would be cut and could make your tiles look really inconsistent. Also, welcome to ZFGC. Logged
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Xiphirx wat	Re: {REQUEST} Need help to make tiles look like ... « Reply #2 on: February 16, 2011, 05:22:48 pm »
Xiphirx Reputation: +0/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 3007	This is what you want to apply with 50% opacity. Untitled-1.gif (5.92 kB, 128x128 - viewed 502 times.) Logged
Xiphirx Reputation: +0/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 3007	For The Swarm (StarCraft II Zerg strategy) I whip my hair back n forth

oburi	Re: {REQUEST} Need help to make tiles look like ... « Reply #3 on: February 16, 2011, 05:52:31 pm »
Reputation: +0/-0 Offline Posts: 3	Hey thanks to you. Nice to beeing here. I'm really impressed by the skills of most of the users here. Logged

Zaeranos	Re: {REQUEST} Need help to make tiles look like ... « Reply #4 on: February 16, 2011, 05:55:34 pm »
Reputation: +9/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 3725	If you lay that filter on it with even 50% opacity you wil get it wrong. The point is that the red is a transparant color. Thus in a game when the filter is aplied any pixel that is the transparancy color will not be drawn or mixed with the renderbuffer. Those pixels are simply discarded. Logged

Xfixium

Re: {REQUEST} Need help to make tiles look like ...

« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2011, 11:39:19 pm »

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I use the filter attached (It has the alpha channel intact), and use "texture" blend mode. (Most high end paint programs have this) If using in game, you have to use a blend mode to get the texture looking like the original.

The attached example:

1. Without filter
2. With textured blend mode
3. With 50% opacity using Xiphirx's filter.

G4SE01_67fb4378_862604038.png (11.82 kB, 128x128 - viewed 412 times.)

house_derp.png (18.96 kB, 96x240 - viewed 419 times.)

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Xiphirx wat	Re: {REQUEST} Need help to make tiles look like ... « Reply #6 on: February 17, 2011, 12:21:29 am »
Xiphirx Reputation: +0/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 3007	I thought GM automatically did Additive blending :\| I haven't used it in forever so yeah Logged
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Mamoruanime @Mamoruanime	Re: {REQUEST} Need help to make tiles look like ... « Reply #7 on: February 17, 2011, 05:10:38 am »
^Not actually me. Reputation: +9/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 9786	Quote from: Xiphirx on February 17, 2011, 12:21:29 am I thought GM automatically did Additive blending :\| :\| that would be terrible. That would mean any drawing done by the engine would look terrible Logged

oburi	Re: {REQUEST} Need help to make tiles look like ... « Reply #8 on: February 17, 2011, 04:00:08 pm »
Reputation: +0/-0 Offline Posts: 3	Thanks Xfixium. This is a great example. Well, I give it a try. Edit: I dont get it... Wich program did you use? « Last Edit: February 26, 2011, 07:27:29 am by oburi » Logged

Xfixium	Re: {REQUEST} Need help to make tiles look like ... « Reply #9 on: February 26, 2011, 08:24:00 pm »
Reputation: +9/-0 Offline Posts: 728	Sorry I missed your reply. I used Corel Photo paint. I tried using it within Photoshop (Which I rarely use). If you use "Multiply" blending mode on the layer that has the filter image, it should have the same results. Logged

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