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First attempt at making lava mats
2004-02-17, 9:41 PM #1
In light of the discovery of the vastness of PhotoImpression4, IE: I don't have photoshop and I realized this program that has been sitting on my computer for 6 months is actually quite cool, I tried to make some mats.

I don't know anything about mats...I don't even know how to implement them into JO/JA, I've never even made a worthwhile JO/JA level, I don't know how to line the sides up so it doesn't look like a bunch of boxes, and i don't know if they have to be in a specific pixel size...but I made these and I wanted to show them off. They're incomplete...which is probably obvious.

I also don't know much about being a skilled photo-editor.

I didn't even single out the red part of the second one from the black...but I thought I'd ask if anyone thinks I have any talent whatsoever...or if these would even qualify as OK mats.

Hot lava:

[http://blargh.mine.nu/test/42/6.jpg]

[http://blargh.mine.nu/test/42/7.jpg]

Thanks for hte comments.

-Veger

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Get back into the gym...
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I'm going to go out and do stuff, like besides work. Call up ben, hang out. Maybe see the last samurai, go skydiving, whatever.
Get back into the gym...
I want to do stuff that prevents me from playin video games so I can only play them a few hours a day, basically.
(Formally Veger, who died when he lost his e-mail adress, and his password. Veeger still looks for his old pass...)
2004-02-17, 10:28 PM #2
Well, it's a start. Next time, make them a power of 2 (e.g. 128x128, 256x256, etc.). And mats are for classis JK, not JO/JA.

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2004-02-18, 7:29 AM #3
the first one kinda looks like the surface of mars or something

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2004-02-18, 7:43 AM #4
Actually pretty nice, reminds me of the oldschool Sonic games.
2004-02-18, 11:22 AM #5
Ok, fine, we'll call them 'textures'. Any ideas on how to make the sides line up?
I'm going to go out and do stuff, like besides work. Call up ben, hang out. Maybe see the last samurai, go skydiving, whatever.
Get back into the gym...
I want to do stuff that prevents me from playin video games so I can only play them a few hours a day, basically.
(Formally Veger, who died when he lost his e-mail adress, and his password. Veeger still looks for his old pass...)
2004-02-18, 2:41 PM #6
The second one looks more like hot rock surface. The first one does indeed look like mars. That might be partially due to the fact that they are not being displayed in game, where it would obviously be lava.

Prolly a decent texture for JK. I can't say for JO because I haven't really played it that much and I have minimal editing experience with it, and I don't even have JA. JK is just too much fun [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif].

A primitive suggestion for lining up the sides:
You could try mirroring the texture, with the mirrored part being scaled smaller. Edit inside the mirrored part w/o changing any edges of the texture. This should work at least with the first one. Here's what I mean...
| and - are borders for the texture edges
= are the mirrored and edited part
* are the original texture
+ are the axes of "symmetry"

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2004-02-18, 2:58 PM #7
either mars, or some bacteria....
looks nicee

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2004-02-19, 5:52 AM #8
The thread is on fire.

Keep up the good work..

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2004-02-19, 12:12 PM #9
[http://blargh.mine.nu/test/42/81077231742.jpg]

Basically I worked a bit on the second picture and changed the colors to see what kind of effects I could get. I figure it's only real use is for some kind of repetitive brick-ish texture. I also have to work a little on the black 'bar' between each 'brick', but comments? I'm going to see what else I can pull up.

(note, I put them all on one picture because the massassi image corner only hosts 8 images...and I'm too lazy to find another good place to host them one by one)

[edit] oh yeah, the water texture is there to even it out...or something. also I'm realizing how hard it is to line these up on the sides, it actually takes some work (why me!?) [/edit]

[This message has been edited by Veeger (edited February 19, 2004).]
I'm going to go out and do stuff, like besides work. Call up ben, hang out. Maybe see the last samurai, go skydiving, whatever.
Get back into the gym...
I want to do stuff that prevents me from playin video games so I can only play them a few hours a day, basically.
(Formally Veger, who died when he lost his e-mail adress, and his password. Veeger still looks for his old pass...)
2004-02-19, 1:07 PM #10
I suggest, to help make your mats tile, you take it, copy it, move it halfway off the canvas, and tile it... like this:

Code: 
|-----------|
|a          b|
|             |
|             |
|             |
|c          d|
|-----------|


Original image

Code: 
|             |
|             |
|c          d|
|-----------|


Move it up...

Code: 
        |
        |
      d|
------|


And over...

Code: 
        |
        |
      d|c
------|------
      a|b     
        |      
        |


And tile it by pasting the image again 3x and lining them up.

This way, you can edit the "seams" and get the texture to look right. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2004-02-20, 4:46 PM #11
ya know, the second one would look awesome in a mine level where it is like a vein of gold/molten rock/ precious (or shiny) metal.

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2004-02-20, 8:20 PM #12
Unfortunately, I won't be back at my dorm computer till sunday night/monday, but I'll try to get it looking descent then (lining the sides up, removing the black, etc)

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I'm going to go out and do stuff, like besides work. Call up ben, hang out. Maybe see the last samurai, go skydiving, whatever.
Get back into the gym...
I want to do stuff that prevents me from playin video games so I can only play them a few hours a day, basically.
(Formally Veger, who died when he lost his e-mail adress, and his password. Veeger still looks for his old pass...)
I'm going to go out and do stuff, like besides work. Call up ben, hang out. Maybe see the last samurai, go skydiving, whatever.
Get back into the gym...
I want to do stuff that prevents me from playin video games so I can only play them a few hours a day, basically.
(Formally Veger, who died when he lost his e-mail adress, and his password. Veeger still looks for his old pass...)

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