Jedi_Knight_UK Posted June 5, 2002 Posted June 5, 2002 Okay guys, So far I have got the textures and the saber to work perfectly 'In-Game'. One problem, the saber 'blade' isn't wide enough and neither is the Glow. Can someone help or tell me what I basically need to do. Thanx.
__CKY__ Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Very very nice idea and good job on those sabers and how far done are you?? lol
Andy867 Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Alien, how did you get it so that your character would hold a saber in each hand?! I saw XyA_Jester's screenie, but now you can do it?! how? did I miss a mod available for download or something?
sunrider4240 Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 dude your dumb or something, can't you see that its two screens with two diff. characters holding the sabers? if you look closely, both pics have 2 hands holding each saber. duh. very nice job by the looks of the sabers though. when will they be available? i LOVE the saber hilt.
ALIEN_JL Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Again that word... hilt ? what does it mean ? I don't what that word means and neither does my dictionary (is it saber handle ?) Anyway if yes that saber handle is not made by me i have downloaded it BUT Yes it is great ...best i have found (best anakins saber) -------------------------------------------------------- and yes there are no saber in each hand... (i just took those screen during fast style horizontal sweep...)
RichDiesal Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Quote I don't what that word means and neither does my dictionary (is it saber handle ?) Yes. http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=hilt for future reference.
Jedi_Knight_UK Posted June 6, 2002 Author Posted June 6, 2002 Well.......thanx.......for.........posting your own mod on my topic! I still need help on my one?? The trouble I've got , and it appears the other guys got, Is that the blade still appears to be pointed. Where as in the film it's straight and rounded at one end. Does anyone know how to create this? Do I need to start fiddling about with codes? (My actual .JPG's are the right shape but when put 'in-game' they appear pointed)
Jedi_Knight_UK Posted June 6, 2002 Author Posted June 6, 2002 *bump* And also..........Did you notice the guy who posted the screenshot did'nt even tell me how he did it! He's just trying to plug his mod. (Trust me,when mines finished it'll be better)
ALIEN_JL Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 How i did it ?? Sorry but in my ears that question is a bit hmm... weard (don't want to insult... for me it is just so obvious..) You know that those sabers have two JPG files per color (for blue saber they are blue_line.jpg and blue_glow2.jpg) And in those files colors are colors but brightness is at the same time brightness and transparency (black = transparent/ white = opaque) ------------------------------------------------------- So if you want to make your blade wider then open that ****_line.jpg and draw wider blade In my blade texture that blade (almost white area) is at the bottom of that image about half of that whole area and at the top about 33%.... And that glow... well like you already know it comes from that ***_glow2.jpg file so just draw it as wide as you can in it (but keep it smooth and be sure that there are pure black everywhere around that color area or...) Anyway in my saber that glow is as wide as it is possible to paint in to that file (making that image file biger doesn't make difference...) so if you want to make that glow biger then you must edit cource code somehow
ALIEN_JL Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 "The trouble I've got , and it appears the other guys got, Is that the blade still appears to be pointed. Where as in the film it's straight and rounded at one end." Ok i am not sure what you mean but i quess that you want that saber blade is as thick from tip as it is from root and that tip of the blade is not sharp but like ball ?? Soo if you want that whole blade is as wide then just draw it so in that ****_line.jpg (but member that brightness is transparency) you may want to change it to greyscale to check if it looks like it should... And when you doesn't want that your blade is sharp then draw it blunt... and member that your blade is going to be longer and thinner that it seems in that file so you must draw it wider and you must draw tip of it more blunt than you really want it to be...
Jedi_Knight_UK Posted June 6, 2002 Author Posted June 6, 2002 That helps alot. I was just wondering if you could post a pic of how you saber looks in Photoshop (Or what ever you used to create it). So I can see if my dimensions are correct.
Garik Loran Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 The sabers are looking great. I wonder if you could sent them to me. I am trying to make such sabers for Tchouky's RGB color mod, but the sprites are different than the ones from the original sabers. Your blades are good looking, and I'd like to try something like that for Tchouky, because all the standad jpg look some kind of ugly ingame. It would be nice if you could help me and send the sabers to me at terrence20@web.de THX!
ALIEN_JL Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 No i don't want to give those textures (or that mod) yet... its not ready... But there are one thing which may help you guys to paint your sapers so that they look more like you want also ingame ------------------------------------------------------------------ Do this (if you use PSP): Open some saber line (***_line.jpg) file and select all and copy and paste as new image Then scale that whole image so that width=100% and height=200% and then save that new image in PSP format so that all layer,... settings remains... (and from now paint your saber in that file) Then when you have edited your saber and it is ok just copy it using "copy merged" to clipboard and paste as new image and then scale that image so that width=100% and height=50% and then save it as some ***_line.jpg (what ever color it is) That way you always have that biger picture with different layers and ... where you can easily modify it
bhango Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 I'd really die to have that mod you made looks excellent. You shuold talk to Tchouky and throw it into his saber mod, because i think his current sabers in that mod don't look too good. I think yours are by far, the best ones ive seen so far, maybe make the white area more visible though? Thats my personal opinion, other than that , they look just like the movie. Release it soon, and if possible, in case i lose this post, email me your mod - transcom@optonline.net get back soon!
Luuke Posted June 9, 2002 Posted June 9, 2002 any chance to see one of these saber mods released soon? Jedi_Knight_UK: i'd like to see some screenshots of your mod. ALIEN_JL: your sabers look so damn good, there is no need to change any more, is it? well, what would it be, and any chance to get your mod?
Norin Radd Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 I REALLY like that thick saber. It looks much more like the films. Cannot wait for it's release.
root Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 I have a thick saber mod. I got it from Mod Central I think...
Garik Loran Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 What does your sabers look like? What I like most at ALIEN_JL sabers is that they have not such a big glow, but the core has some color and it's as thick as the hilt. Can you post a picture?
mtrixman Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 you still have the thick saber file? if you do please email it to me at mtrixman@hotmail.com . thanks
C'jais Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 Thank GAWD someone is making these new sabers. The default ones look like ****e and bears no resemblance at all to the movies. Looking good.... I love ya guys.
Reiver Posted June 10, 2002 Posted June 10, 2002 Wow! Alien_Jl, that looks amazing. One of the best I've seen so far. The hilt is cool, I use it too. This will be great when it is released.
Norin Radd Posted June 11, 2002 Posted June 11, 2002 Quote Originally posted by cjais Thank GAWD someone is making these new sabers. The default ones look like ****e and bears no resemblance at all to the movies. Looking good.... I love ya guys. I would agree. They definitely could have put some more thought into the saber design. The hilt looks kind of ridiculous, as well, like a baton when the saber is not activated. Alien_JL, what saber is in your photo? is that the Anakin saber or the Darth Vader saber?
Mark_Li Posted June 11, 2002 Posted June 11, 2002 Any news on this? Itd be nice to have this released officially.
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