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Offline -RDX-Leftless1

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Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« on: February 27, 2009, 12:29:05 pm »
Hope this helps some of you.  :D

revision: When creating the bottom of the boarder, decrease the height of the rectangular marque tool to 70 Pixels for best results.


Click Here to watch the video.
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Offline Gorilla

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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2009, 01:09:54 pm »
Great job -RDX-Leftless1   :D

But for 5 alpha channel, you can just flatten image and save as .DDS
It's good if you have an transparent alpha channel.
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Offline Joker{eXtreme}

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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2009, 01:37:18 pm »
Hey buddy, I can host the WMV -- just need to get it from you :)
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Offline -RDX-Leftless1

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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2009, 08:52:10 pm »
Yes this is true Gorilla..but I prefer not to do it that way as once you flatten the image you can't edit the content any further. So, I thought it was best to teach it the way I did to minimize the frustration level and having to start all over again.


Joker I was just giving the tut a dry run. My son has been telling me from the start "your making it to big" and I just needed to see if he was correct. It looked fine on my screen (1600 x 1200) but after viewing it on a friends screen (1024 x 768) I think he may be right.? What do you think ???
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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2009, 02:33:31 am »
good tut thanks was very helpful.
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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2009, 05:10:59 am »
Quote from: "-RDX-Leftless1";p="26084"
Yes this is true Gorilla..but I prefer not to do it that way as once you flatten the image you can't edit the content any further.
After flatten and saving as .DDS, return to history and take a walk back to save as .PSD
But i'm understand when you say " So, I thought it was best to teach it the way" it's easy to learn  :D
Thanks for all  :D  :D
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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2009, 12:59:41 pm »
Cant get the video to play
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Offline -RDX-Leftless1

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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2009, 01:03:17 pm »
Try updating your windows media player.  :D
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Offline -RDX-Leftless1

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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2009, 02:16:40 pm »
Heres a couple of bg's I made with this method.


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Offline DVTDS

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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2009, 03:25:20 pm »
loved the tut.. at the end though don't we have to change the file extension to just .iwi and take out the other stuff the dds2iwi program adds on? or will it work that way?  I am new to the image editing stuff.. Sorry for the noob question.
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Offline -RDX-Leftless1

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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2009, 03:37:52 pm »
The file automatically becomes an iwi once you put it through the converter, as long as the file name was correct going in it will be good to go.  When you convert back to iwi from dds the file name remains the same, no file renaming needed.

Hope I'm understanding your question correctly.  :D
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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2009, 04:00:45 pm »
ahhh ok.. I c.. thanks for the info..


I must have a bad program.. it adds .dds_2_iwi.iwi or something like that to my converted file.
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Offline -RDX-Leftless1

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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2009, 04:05:53 pm »
Are you using the "dds2iwi-cod4.exe" converter ??
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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2009, 11:22:23 pm »
Incredible -- Awesome tutorial Left, thanks alot :)

Feel free to make more LOL and we can host the files
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Re: Custom Backgrounds **Video Tut**
« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2009, 11:34:56 pm »
Quote from: "{PST}*Joker";p="26134"
Incredible -- Awesome tutorial Left, thanks alot :)

Feel free to make more LOL and we can host the files

Thanks Joker, means a lot coming from you. I'm sure there will be more tuts in the future.  :D
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