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Probably breaking all sorts of rules, but here's a teesy weensy taste of whats coming in AE. Kudos to the Pro from Dover who correctly identifies each vessel. Ciao.

hi,

im going to dabble with a bit of artwork to pass the time until AE is here, and need a bit of help with the following:

1. Is the artwork going to be presented in exactly the same way as stock - ie a bmp number and associated pic

2. When i have an image i want to use it is usually in a white box - how do i make all that transparent so i just have the ship outline to transfer to the required background

3. And ive only got ms paint - so dont laugh

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

hi,

im going to dabble with a bit of artwork to pass the time until AE is here, and need a bit of help with the following:

1. Is the artwork going to be presented in exactly the same way as stock - ie a bmp number and associated pic

2. When i have an image i want to use it is usually in a white box - how do i make all that transparent so i just have the ship outline to transfer to the required background

3. And ive only got ms paint - so dont laugh

1. I believe that is indeed the case.

2. If you are using mspaint, then check under the 'image' heading and deselect draw opaque. Then past your ship image into the background file and the white background will not show.

3. Try using paint.NET, it's free and I use it for most of my art stuff. http://www.getpaint.net/

first attempt at Akagi - hope it looks ok - should you be able to see the red line or not?





and thanks for help dixie

and Kaga

and a less out of the water akakgi

and mogami..... thats it for today

hmmm

and nagato - in case anyone is reading this and im just posting to myself - should the red hull line be visible at all?

Not if she's about to go to sea, no.

ahh, right, so i should assume after expending all armaments and eating all food, and using all fuel, red line may make a reappearance?

have done these 2 again and added Soryu - so.............. Soryu, Akagi and Kaga

and the yamato - for anyone out there are these too light, the standardised artwork is much darker?

another thought also occurs - is there just one slot for mogami, kumano, suzuya, ibiki etc as in mogami class cruisers and if so which ship is used?

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

another thought also occurs - is there just one slot for mogami, kumano, suzuya, ibiki etc as in mogami class cruisers and if so which ship is used?

IIRC in stock there is just one slot. CHS added another art slot for the flight deck version of the class.

ORIGINAL: undercovergeek

and the yamato - for anyone out there are these too light, the standardised artwork is much darker?

Just a little. We wanted a bit more contrast with respect to the background so's to bring out the detail.


And, just a couple gratuitous, pointless, pointers, take ‘em for what they’re worth.

Art has to show up on two different panels; the nifty ones with sky & water are on the ship screen, the shils go on the combat screen. Combat screen is very dark, dark water, no sky, etc. Try to gauge your lightness/darkness, so it works on both (that’s one reason the standard panels have darker water and sky than yours).

Once you get it down, try to keep all your ships at reasonably the same value. If they are all different, your combat screen will highlight the most contrasty in a very distracting way.

I like to keep the waterline stripes in. Our Japanese are reddish, our US is blueish, the jpeg doesn’t show it well. The eye detects color difference, but also color intensity, so I use deep maroon for the Japanese waterline. Eye sees it as red, but it doesn’t register as “!!RED!!” the way a red stripe would do.

And, yeah, definitely get paint.net, it’s free, just as easy to use, and compares to MSPaint as a Porche to a donkey.

Anyhow, ciao. John

ah, cool - i understand now



ive darkened the Yamato here, but you think it needs a darker see and a lighter sky to help with the contrast?

Do you mind me asking the source of your picture to convert to bmp?

new akagi - darker looks much better.

Are you using this standardised art set for AE?




were flags ever flown on the ships?

The AE art is all brand new, but it was made by the people behind the standardized artwork set.

ORIGINAL: Terminus

The AE art is all brand new, but it was made by the people behind the standardized artwork set.

any sneaky pics?

has the format changed at all, still 200 x 60, ship side and a background? or is it bigger and we're in for a detail extravaganza?!!