Hi I have an Idea

[Starhawk]

I have perfect pictures to create a "Hiigaran" shipset from the Homeworld 2 game.

Problem is I can't seem to get them to the right proportions and everything to get them in the game and still looking good. I was wondering if any of you would be so kind as to help me in this area either by making the ship set or by helping me figure out how to get the ships to still look good while at the same time fitting the size limits of the game.

[David E. Gervais]

What are the game sizes needed and where are the pics? I might be able to fiddle with them in my spare time.

btw: is the problem that the pics are tiny and get ugly when enlarged? or are they huge and loose too much detail in the reduction?

Cheers!

[ December 01, 2003, 11:32: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[Starhawk]

Well they are rather large as the screenshot manager doesn't let you decrease their size.
But when they get shrunk to the approropriate size the game makes em look really really bad even though in like MSN paint they look pretty good.

And I am currently grouping them all together in a .zip file and getting enough screenies to make a good full shipset so I'll have the download available (hopefully) by later today.

[Andr�s]

Every ship size needs a 128x128 "portrait" and a 36x36 "mini".
You will allways lose some details when reducing to those sizes, but if resampled nicely they should look ok anyway.
Another important detail is that minis should show relative sizes between the ships, so the largest ones should use all 36 pixels of its mini while the smallest much less.

[Starhawk]

That is where I am having the real problems...I tried to make a dreadnought mini and a cruiser mini. I replaced the "cruiser" pic from the demo with my dreadnought and the light cruiser with my cruiser.

But the dreadnought actually came out smaller and less detailed then my cruiser did.

[David E. Gervais]

any chance of sending me one of the more difficult pics to test out? If I can do a good job on one of the more difficult ones then chances are the others will be ok too.

Cheers!

P.S. my e-mail is in my profile. Just be sure to notify me here if you send it. I don't often check out my hotmail account.

P.P.S. I'm not sure I agree about the mini's needing to be of varying sizes, I would make all ships fit the largest possible area in the 36x36 pics, they are after all just a representation of the ship, accurate scale is not IMHO necessary in the mini pics. (Scale can be kept in the 128x128 size though, there is a bit more room to play there.)

[ December 01, 2003, 19:30: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]