How do you make unit textures? (RESOLVED)

[TLFP]

Question in title.

[J]

I guess you already made them and need to import them. There is a button in the editor that says 'Custom images' (in the units tab). Click it and you have a ton of slots to import your images to. To use them, edit a crpl core and change the image to the slot you selected, or use the SetImage command in crpl.

[TLFP]

I guess you already made them and need to import them. There is a button in the editor that says 'Custom images' (in the units tab). Click it and you have a ton of slots to import your images to. To use them, edit a crpl core and change the image to the slot you selected, or use the SetImage command in crpl.

Actually I need to make them not import them because otherwise I'll be stuck using wiki repository images not custom ones(Which I'll make myself).  ;)

[J]

In that case, just use any image editor you want and make sure you save the image to a location where you can find it. I have no experience making images myself.

[TLFP]

In that case, just use any image editor you want and make sure you save the image to a location where you can find it. I have no experience making images myself.

I've tried that but I keep asking myself, "Why do people always have such good custom unit textures?"
Usually they don't end up looking like I want them to because mostly I just want to edit and fill with a different color and they're 200+ pixels so I end up filling 1 pixel. :-\ And if I use the line feature on most programs I end up with a not perfect lines all over it unit texture. I also have no idea how Virgil made his textures so good. If I did, I wouldn't have this question.

[Nicant]

In that case, just use any image editor you want and make sure you save the image to a location where you can find it. I have no experience making images myself.

I've tried that but I keep asking myself, "Why do people always have such good custom unit textures?"
Usually they don't end up looking like I want them to because mostly I just want to edit and fill with a different color and they're 200+ pixels so I end up filling 1 pixel. :-\ And if I use the line feature on most programs I end up with a not perfect lines all over it unit texture. I also have no idea how Virgil made his textures so good. If I did, I wouldn't have this question.

I make my  textures by tracing another texture and painting it a different color. For example the creep bertha texture, I downloaded the original bertha texture and painted it blue. Also make sure your texture is a PNG file, if not then you can go on a website that converts the file. I hope this helps.  :)

[TLFP]

In that case, just use any image editor you want and make sure you save the image to a location where you can find it. I have no experience making images myself.

I've tried that but I keep asking myself, "Why do people always have such good custom unit textures?"
Usually they don't end up looking like I want them to because mostly I just want to edit and fill with a different color and they're 200+ pixels so I end up filling 1 pixel. :-\ And if I use the line feature on most programs I end up with a not perfect lines all over it unit texture. I also have no idea how Virgil made his textures so good. If I did, I wouldn't have this question.

I make my  textures by tracing another texture and painting it a different color. For example the creep bertha texture, I downloaded the original bertha texture and painted it blue. Also make sure your texture is a PNG file, if not then you can go on a website that converts the file. I hope this helps.  :)

Is there an easy way of tracing it, because I don't want it looking like black spaghetti.

[GameGibu]

If you are trying to make something new, try doing concept sketches by hand first.
However if you are trying to recolor an existing unit, that's a bit more involved. Well, a lot more involved... :-\

I'd be happy to help you with unit icons since I'm a bit of a graphic artist myself. All I would need to know is the purpose, color scheme, size and function.

-GameGibu

[TLFP]

If you are trying to make something new, try doing concept sketches by hand first.
However if you are trying to recolor an existing unit, that's a bit more involved. Well, a lot more involved... :-\

I'd be happy to help you with unit icons since I'm a bit of a graphic artist myself. All I would need to know is the purpose, color scheme, size and function.

-GameGibu

All I need is to recolor a texture.

[J]

Most more-than-paint editors have an option to recolor (or change the hue) of the entire picture. I usually use the built-in sprite editor of gamemaker to create/edit images which has this option (and things like black&white, resize, sharpen, buttonize). I hope it's available somewhere as standalone image editor :P

[Asbestos]

Changing hue on paint.net:

[TLFP]

Changing hue on paint.net:

I have a program that can do that, but it wants JPG file textures, not PNG.

[Asbestos]

What on earth kind of image editor are you using that needs JPG to change the hue? Save the image as a JPG and then use it.

[Nicant]

I actually never thought of changing the hue. Well, looks like my next sleeper will have updated graphics! :D

[planetfall]

Though I've never used it for this purpose, it may be useful to create a vector image in something like Inkscape and then export it as a PNG. That way you can fiddle with exact scales and gradients and whatnot without having to touch any filthy pixels directly. That would likely be useful for making images in a similar style to the CW3 ones. However, I made all the graphics for my custom maps in paint-equivalents and they didn't turn out too awful, but they did take quite a while to make even with generous copy-paste.