Oolite Bulletins

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.

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..

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

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

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

nice work
now someone needs to design a hard bombing run mission OXP

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

Disembodied wrote:

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

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 ...

Nice one, Disembodied...

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

Well I finally got round to the custom paint job:



Simple by effective I think.

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.

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?

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...

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