Griff ships with player-defined decals

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 12:20 pm

Griff wrote:
i think i might have over complicated things, you could just use xnview to split the alpha from Griff_cobra_mk3_mainhull_diffuse_spec.png and save it somewhere for safekeeping whilst you recolour the rest of texture map in paint or gimp and then use GIMP to add the alpha channel back into the texture and resave it ready for Oolite

Griff, how do I use GIMP to add the alpha channel back into the texture? I've been searching and can't work out how to do it.

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:59 pm

Killer Wolf wrote:
Like the Memphis Belle nose art (big fan of the film, and the B17), but i think she's holding a phone to her ear; looks a bit odd having the cable still there w/ the phone removed.

Ok KW... I've modified the pic so the phone is visible.. take another look..

Post by **Disembodied** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:14 pm

She does look a bit like a rear view of Tex Avery's "Red Hot Riding Hood" – who would also make a great decal ...

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:30 pm

Here you go.. redhot as a 512x512 decal.

Post by **Disembodied** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:31 pm

Cheers, Dizzy! I'll have to se if I can't get the wolf, as well ...

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:50 pm

nice work

now someone needs to design a hard bombing run mission OXP

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:48 pm

Diziet Sma wrote:
Griff, how do I use GIMP to add the alpha channel back into the texture? I've been searching and can't work out how to do it.

Have a look at this pdf dizzy, http://www.box.net/shared/jk87l4f0gw ignore all the stuff it talks about regarding illumination maps etc, it's basically a series of steps on how to merge a greyscale image into another textures alpha channel using gimp, mind you, I don't really know a lot about gimp so hopefully someone knows a faster/better way of doing the same thing

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:21 pm

Disembodied wrote:
Cheers, Dizzy! I'll have to se if I can't get the wolf, as well ...

Post by **Disembodied** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:05 pm

Thanks, Thargoid. I managed to find a good head-shot of him (actually, from another – but very similar and equally funny – cartoon, Swing Shift Cinderella) so I've made a 512 x 512 decal for any fellow Wolf II pilots out there ...

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:39 pm

Nice one, Disembodied...

Here are the first two images, as 256x256 png decals..

dalek501 · Post by **dalek501** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:47 pm

Well I finally got round to the custom paint job:

Simple by effective I think.

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:09 am

Nice..

I hope to have a re-worked Gunboat Diplomat up soon.. that blue/green with Guy Fawkes decal just doesn't do it for me.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:56 pm

Nice work, dalek501.

Diziet Sma wrote:
that blue/green with Guy Fawkes decal just doesn't do it for me.

Skaffen-Amtiskaw has managed to make you see the error of your ways, has it?

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:59 pm

Well, you know S-A... doesn't give up easily.. and I didn't take much convincing. Every time I see that banner I kind of wince...

Post by **Disembodied** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:41 pm

You could always go with another decal along the same theme ... here's a 256 x 256 "V":