Shadow creation

[LightBringer]

Hi All,

Trying to source some new material for a server, and found some great monsters, spells etc however they don't have shadows.
Is there an easy(ish) way to create shadows for images within PS?

Going to have a gooooogle but thought I'd ask here as well

 

[Jev]

I believe @Sanjian may be able to help. I think he’s doing shadows for his upcoming server.

 

[Sanjian]

I believe @Sanjian may be able to help. I think he’s doing shadows for his upcoming server.

no im not, the mobs i have, have shadows already

 

[LightBringer]

so we've had some with shadows but in game they are removed, will need to look at the images themselves and start learning about image formatting and editing I guess

 

[FloppyQ]

You can skew the original image to create a semi acceptable shadow. They aren't great if you look at them close up though.



Upload an example of a set you're struggling with.

 

[Far]

You can get them looking identical to mir2 shadows if you generate it in code, thats how mir3 makes all it's player shadows.

Problem is when they're big monsters you have to adjust the skew position on all rotations so it gets much harder to automate.

 

[LightBringer]

You can get them looking identical to mir2 shadows if you generate it in code, thats how mir3 makes all it's player shadows.

Problem is when they're big monsters you have to adjust the skew position on all rotations so it gets much harder to automate.

Ohh, potentially be possible to generate shadows for the normal mobs, then exclude a list of lib files, which then can potentially just pull direct from LIB if I can create them manually.

Really need to look and plan it all, see if I can do it or I need to hire someone else to do it.

Appreciate the feedback all.


Chinese files I have as well, new mobs have shadows on the files but aren't pulled into the game, will fire some overr tomorrow.

You can get them looking identical to mir2 shadows if you generate it in code, thats how mir3 makes all it's player shadows.

Problem is when they're big monsters you have to adjust the skew position on all rotations so it gets much harder to automate.

Ohh, potentially be possible to generate shadows for the normal mobs, then exclude a list of lib files, which then can potentially just pull direct from LIB if I can create them manually.

Really need to look and plan it all, see if I can do it or I need to hire someone else to do it.

Appreciate the feedback all.


Chinese files I have as well, new mobs have shadows on the files but aren't pulled into the game, will fire some overr tomorrow.

 

[Tai]

I think @Xx69xX did all his in PS

 

[Sanjian]

is it gradient shadows like the ones i have @LightBringer? but in game they vanish because they are pure black?

 

[LightBringer]

is it gradient shadows like the ones i have @LightBringer? but in game they vanish because they are pure black?

Yeah I think so mate

 

[Sanjian]

Yeah I think so mate

message me ill tell you what i did

 

[Xx69xX]

The issues i had were that the monsters had shadows in the images, but were deleted. I used photo shop to batch change the colour of the images by 1 point so they did not delete on importing. Its a VERY long job. Took me around 100+ hours to do them.

If this is similar to your issue, im more than happy to walk you through the steps i took

 

[Sanjian]

The issues i had were that the monsters had shadows in the images, but were deleted. I used photo shop to batch change the colour of the images by 1 point so they did not delete on importing. Its a VERY long job. Took me around 100+ hours to do them.

If this is similar to your issue, im more than happy to walk you through the steps i took

exactly what i did

and yes its very time consuming, but takes 2 minutes for some gimp to rip it ^^

 

[Jev]

exactly what i did

and yes its very time consuming, but takes 2 minutes for some gimp to rip it ^^

YOINK