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Phyran · Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:42 pm Post subject: zone specific ships

why is it the bigger the ship image, the smaller it gets on display D

like for example i have this 150x 150 pixel size ship, but its displayed very tiny...even tinier than the normal size ships =\

editted: damnit!!
and i made a big ass button for that ship too....
and its being displayed as a small ass tiny little shit that u can easily squish with 1 foot

Bak · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject:

ship images are actually 40 images... do you have a 10x4 tiled image with all the roatations? Use Ez Image Rotator if not.
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Phyran · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:15 pm Post subject:

yes i know that, im talking about the option > menu zone-specific ships in the client skin interface

turn that on and select gundam wing zone for example and ull see

but the problem is
non standard ship sizes that are bigger than the standard ship sizes appears really tiny, even tinier than standard ship sizes

editted: this is really pissing me off, i want it to display it in all its actual pixel glory D:<

damn @!$#%@!^$%$#^#^ing tiny shit!!

editted again: goddamn STUPID SHIT DAMNIT!!!!

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

tough beans

it'd be a pain to make the UI/skins work with any size you wanted

Phyran · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:56 pm Post subject:

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

One of your other ships is probably larger. I think I shrink them proportiinally.
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Phyran · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject:

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

should look fine, unless you shrank after saving with indexed colors or something

Phyran · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject:

its just that there is a lot of background within each frame, and reducing it to 36x36 pixels made it look just as ugly or the same as not shrinking it

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

what you want to do is select only what isn't background (black), then crop, then resize width or height (whichever is larger) to 36 pixels, then make sure it's 36 pixels square, then toss it into ships.bm2

Phyran · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:45 pm Post subject:

meh...too much to bother with, i came up with the solution to just place the actual image size of the ship in alt region

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

ah, heheh, I forgot you were doing a zone-specific skin

Phyran · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:40 am Post subject:

>D

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

if you want a guide, I did a couple skins like that

http://download.sscentral.com/

VIEd_02 would be the simpler example

Phyran · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:00 pm Post subject:

thx but i already finished mine in 2 days >D

XD

http://rt.sscentral.com/Scrn_Shot_Skin.png

although im not that happy with it
notice how the actual MACII looks like a chaingun accessory on the "Fake" full image MACII

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

heheh, maybe flip the background image horizontally?

fyi: ALT+PRTSCR

Phyran · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:13 pm Post subject:

Solo Ace · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject:

Alt + Prt scr is the same as just Prt scr (which takes a screenshot from the whole screen), but Alt + Prt scr only takes a screenshot from the active window.

Phyran · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject: