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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / The Artist's Challenge..

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David Gervais
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Posted: 9th Jun 2006 09:31
Ok, now you got me curious? I saw no mention of a banner competition.. could you give a link to what you are refering? It sounds interesting.

Cheers!
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Posted: 9th Jun 2006 09:45 Edited at: 9th Jun 2006 09:46
Banner Compo - Geek Culture



Come see the WIP!
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Posted: 9th Jun 2006 16:37
hey david,
i actually completed something that uses your images.
thanks so much for providing them.

it's a mini-rpg using your rpg tileset.
it also uses some other public-domain images, but it's 85% yours...

wouldn't be possible without you!
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=81185&b=11&p=0

thanks,
bob

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Posted: 9th Jun 2006 21:15
UFO YOU'VE DOOMED US ALL

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Good luck with the compo

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Posted: 9th Jun 2006 21:49 Edited at: 9th Jun 2006 21:49
Nice going UFO.

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Posted: 9th Jun 2006 22:47
lol I only meant it as a joke

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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 17:04
Hey David, think you can throttle this down to 24ish k? I tried doing it with photoshop, but the tool lies and tells me it's going to be smaller than it is.

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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 10th Jun 2006 17:42
David Could you add me on msn messenger by any chance? I need to ask you something

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Tapewormz that owns!

Wii rules.
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David Gervais
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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 00:36 Edited at: 11th Jun 2006 00:41
Tapewormz, not a good idea to do a second pass compression on a .jpg. I first ran a filter to remove .jpg artifacts then had to enhance the hue saturation a bit and then resave. this one is 21k but it would probably be even clearer if you posted the .bmp so I can compress the original. What? you didn't save the original as a .bmp? Shame on you start over lol j/k



As to the messenger request Chris, I only peek in on messenger like once a day usually like 2-3am and only to see if I have e-mail on my hotmail account. my messenger email is

david_gervais60(attsymbolgoeshere)hotmail(period)com

Good luck on catching me, you can also just send an email to that address.

Cheers!

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 00:51 Edited at: 11th Jun 2006 01:07
Thanks David i live in the uk so that makes it easier i'll add you tomorrow uk time

Edit:Infact i'll sign on appear offline now but i'm on a router that plays up alot so...
Edit 2:Added you it's 11pm here so i'll be ontomorrow sometime

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 08:28
Thanks for shriking it. I have the original psd's of the image, but that pass you did is good enough for me. I don't expect to win, I just wanted to do something creative with one of my paintings.

Out of curiosity, what did you use to compress it?

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I used PSP 8, and ran it through the .jpg 'Optimizer'.

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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 03:03 Edited at: 12th Jun 2006 03:09
perhaps someone could use a bullethole?

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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 18:49
Steve J looks nice but 1024 x 1024 :/ same size as my screen res almost just a bit bigger

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Just resize it... Its always nice to have high detail versions just in case.


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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 07:19
1024x1024 is good for resizing. you can do 512, 256, 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 13:16 Edited at: 13th Jun 2006 13:17
I haven't uploaded stuff in awhile,.. here is a glass bubble. Doing a test with .png and alpha chanels.(I hope it works). Anyone care to test this .png out in some sort of quick and dirty demo?



anyways, enjoy!

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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 19:53
Here's a quick and dirty sprite demo of that alpha mapping. It works better than I thought it would. Just pop that bubble (pun intended) into the DB Temp folder and run this code.




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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 20:00
cool, now to find a background for the bubbles..

Thanks RiiDii.

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Welcome. And heres a demo with objects. Again, works better than I expected. I've learned a few things too, so thanks for the request.




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Posted: 13th Jun 2006 23:17
I guess it is too late and off topic now, but:

My intention was to get him to make some banners. You should be happy his art great art skillz are adding to the forum's good.

And my reply to the comments about 'ruining' the banner comp:















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Posted: 14th Jun 2006 09:25 Edited at: 14th Jun 2006 09:26
BTW, UFO did I say thanks for giving me the heads-up on the banner compo? If not, well 'Thanks!'.. I'm having great fun over there.

Cheers!

P.S. And thnaks to Curtis too, for posting the thread link.
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Bump Keep it alive people we all want more great artwork

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Posted: 16th Jun 2006 19:21
*BUMP*



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Sad news,.. My Mother passed away today at 2:30pm. She was surrounded by her loved ones when she passed here at home. Her legacy of kindness, caring and unselfishness will live on through we her children.

Sorry for Hijacking the thread, but hey it's my thread (well most of mine anyways.)

I will be back soon, count on it.

Be well people.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2006 04:36
My best wishes to you Dave.
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Same here. I hope it doesn't interfere with any of your projects or anything like that. I couldn't imagine what it would be like if my mom passed away (since I'm under 18).

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Sorry to hear that Dave

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Posted: 20th Jun 2006 11:52 Edited at: 20th Jun 2006 11:57
Thought I would post a freebie Tileset. I just made it for the remake competition but I am more than glad to share it (please just don't use it for the retroremakes compo this year)



all the tiles are 16x24 just happens to be a size i like at the moment

EDIT> The fountain is daves I just resized it and fit it into my tile.

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Posted: 20th Jun 2006 11:55 Edited at: 20th Jun 2006 11:56
Here is a shot of them in action so you can see why some are shaded and all.

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Whoah - tiny, but nice, Hobgoblin!

And best wishes, David.

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Just made a moon texture. Maybe someone can find a use?


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Im starting work on a 2D Map editor, but my UI looks a bit bare So, has anyone got generic icons to fill my program up with

The top box will be for the tools such as paint, fill, which layer etc and the black middle on ewill be the grid you apply it to.



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You may want to look:

http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ <-there.

Their not mine, but they are awesome. I plan to incorporate them in almost all of my new sites


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Yeah just dled the "Silk" pack. V Nice!

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hey conorH i hate to sound noobish but here i go ...

How did you get those other 2 child windows to open up in DBP?...have i missed something?

Ink all over the screen...and dang it! Signature still does not show.
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Isn't that done with blue gui?
Well, I'm sure you want better, but maybe a place holder?



Then an actual Ico file too, wasn't sure, but you never know. maybe the icon for the app? lol (looks the same as above, 32x32)

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If anyone needs some concept art give me a buzz.

I'm working on putting a decent portfolio together and the only things i had to submit to TGC was old stuff >_<. hehe I'm pretty sure if i had a chance at that position its gone now.

anywho if you need some concept art or even a splash page for a game or something I can do it. basically anything but sprites (I had an incedent with an overdose a while back... never was the same)

I will actually start working on some things I might think the general audience could use.

Also dave (kinda late) my best wishes to you and your family, sorry to hear of your mother dying.

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Hey all,

I have just started trying to do 2d Isometric work, never done it before and I wanted to share my first two with the community. Here is a basic Hotel and another building I posted over in the 2d forum. Feel free to use em however you want.

Anyone with pixel art experience, especially Isometric, I would really appreciate your critiques and any advice on how to improve my work, as I said I am new to it and hope to become proficient with this style so any help is greatly appreciated.






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I am no expert, nor even a beginner at isometric art, but from looking at your buildings, the shadows that the chimneys cast is darker than the shadow on the dark-side of the buildings - when in fact the dark-side should be darker than the chimney shadows. (They'd have more reflected light).

The best page I've seen for isometric tutorials was http://www.spriteart.com/. Lovely page, and you get taught by Samurai!

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Thanks tink

Made a slight adjustment to them

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looks great but i had to check your perspective on the first one... Its correct as can be but there is a slight optical illusion there that left me pondering .

the bottom left most line and the bottom right most line need to be parallel, and they are... they looks not to be though, which threw me off.

Other than that I will say that it is good to still use tiles sets when working with iso, ive worked on 2 iso games in my time and the map system had a grid on it, therefore it was easier to have a predefined goal.

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Thanks Oddmind. Took your advice and made tiles for this one. The previous ones were drawn in alot of layers that could be dropped over one another for seperate floors, front walls etc but you might be right on making tiles might make future works more consistent with one another.

Here is a hospital for anyone who might want it. If you need it without the backdrop let me know and I can post it.



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Can i have it without the bg then it'll be perfect

I can finally make a 2d rpg later on if ya make some modern houses/shops for it as well

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Sure here it is sans background



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ok Chris here is a quick gunshop.



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Wow thanks if only you had msn you could teach me how to do this awesome work

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I just read a tutorial, and started drawing. I started four days ago. As a note though making letters is a nugget buster, I have to find a better way.

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