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FPSC Classic Models and Media / Tip: How to make good Screens for your games

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old_School
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Posted: 17th Dec 2010 23:35
Little trick Ive been playing with, you may or may not agree with the concept.

Overview:
What we will be doing in a nut shell is building a map in your FPSC. The idea is to portray your game in a simple fashion.

1) Load FPSC

2) Start building the map. When building try to set up a small detailed area.

3) Once you have completed the build to your liking, test the map.

4) Check for bugs or anything out of place. Once you agree it looks good. Step back. An look for a good angle for a good screen shot

5) Once you find a good angle, click on the Prt Scr buttion on your keyboard.

6) Exit the test game and close out FPSC

7) Create a MS Paint BMP, open it and click on paste. Your in game screen shot should appear.

8) You will see two things that need removed. Hud above and the little bars below. To remove them just select all then move the image up until the Hud on top is gone.

9) To remove the hud images on the bottom, pull the center dot up until its gone.

10) Now that we have a nice clean image. We need to get raid of the excess white if any is still there. Resize your image if needed in MS Paint to remove the white spaces.

11) One all the white is gone, we need to make a logo for the game and place it on the image. There our serveral ways to do this. I recomend if you have something like front page or any web design tool you make the games logo on a seperate file and save as a PNG. Then layer the logo on top of the clean background.

Why a PNG? PNG will ignore the white space and only show your Logo. This is where photoshop may come in handy as well. Here is a exsample of a decent Image ready to go in your game for the screen.


Closeing:

I hope this tut was useful and helpful. Please enjoy this little nifty trick.
Cyborg ART
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Posted: 17th Dec 2010 23:42
Good tutorial, but please calm down with the threadcreation
Wherever I go there is a new thread by you

Maybe gather all your tutorials in one big thread?

old_School
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Posted: 18th Dec 2010 00:00
Sorry I just get these ideas on how to do things and I test and then they work. So I feel like everyone can benifit from it. Sorry Ive had FPSC for along time and never discovered much with it but lately its like i keep getting brains storms from no where. Its crazy.
CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 18th Dec 2010 00:06
This may amaze you, but F12 auto-creates a BMP file for you while in-game. It is also a screenshot, and can be done more than once per run.

old_School
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Posted: 18th Dec 2010 00:08
Sweet thanks for the tip. I know one thing, in photography they say you need about 50 shots for one good pic. So that should help alot to get the right angle.
JLMoondog
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Posted: 18th Dec 2010 01:35
Nah, I take one and it always looks good.


Bugsy
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Posted: 18th Dec 2010 01:40
same. just make sure you get a nice, high, wide angle. then everything looks good.

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rolfy
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Posted: 18th Dec 2010 03:47
Quote: "8) You will see two things that need removed. Hud above and the little bars below. To remove them just select all then move the image up until the Hud on top is gone.

9) To remove the hud images on the bottom, pull the center dot up until its gone."

Or as said you could simply hit F12 and save your screenshot, this method saves an image without huds, maybe learn the best methods before creating tutorials, all of this is in the community guide and manual as well.
onoxiya games
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Posted: 16th Jan 2011 02:11
CYBORG ART, why does it matter if he has a lot of threads theres no rule to how many threads you can have, also he could be helping soneone that could really need it so why not stop worrying about how many threads a person has.

That tutorial helped me a ton i could never figure out the best way to get a good background thank you.

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