Your improved method of recouring certainly produces great results! You should definitely make that tutorial sometime. I for one would find it useful I'm sure.
I could possibly make a GIMP tuturial as well... I'm just not familiar with it whatsoever, but it's just a matter of finding the functions that do the same thing as Photoshop, and since the GIMP menu's have commonalities with Photoshop, it should not be overly time-consuming to make both. Of course, beyond that, I would not be very helpful in regard to GIMP specifics.
DFBATTLER said:
The Military Academies should be Taverns, where you build Heroes, not Armies.
Great idea... since after all that was the Tavern's purpose!
You know, since each HOMM3 Civ had 2 different types of Heroes (Might Heroes and Magic Heroes), I could possibly create 2 types of Taverns, one which produces a Might oriented Hero, and 1 which produces a Magic oriented Hero. Then give the base army unit some slightly different stats to differentiate the 2.
The hero (army) limit in the game was set at 8, but since limit can only go by number of cities, I suppose there is no point to set any type of limit, since they won't be able to act in the same manner anyway.
General 666 said:
Thank you ,Tom. Is it only me who think that a Djinn has to be blue ?
I don't know... I just saw a copper colored Djinn on my way to work yesterday.
I'm glad you mentioned that, because I took another look at the Djinn, and that is exactly the color I need to get my Iron Golem.
General 666 said:
That tutorial would be topmost appreciate by me. Vuldanon has already taught me a lot of things. But sadly he use PSP and I use Photoshop. So we have never talked about the same (features in our softwares). So having one tutorial for Photoshop has an very high "must-have" greed factor for me.
You should see my Units-recolor folder on my HD. (quite huge)
But there`s no need to hurry. I have a greater amount of to-do`s on my list.
Vuldacon is quite a good graphic artist, perhaps he could add some ideas in the thread, or even an additional tuturial on how he goes about recolouring. There are for sure a vast amount of ways to do it, and some ways are probably better suited than others depending on the unit being done.
For instance, the new way I'm using now, is quite perplexing to do units if there are lots of colors that I don't want to necessarily change. Takes alot of palette mergers, saved files, must be done in correct orders, and a whole ton of clicks (my mouse is getting angry). Whereas doing a whole recolor of a no-civ unit takes about 8-10 mins, whole recolor of a civ-color unit takes 20-25 mins. More complicated ones can take hours.
Latest units:
Air Elemental (from Darque's Air Elemental) - Download this
Here!
I will be using Darque's orginal Air Elemental as a Storm Elemental.
Magma Elemental (from Aaglo's Stone Elemental) - Download this
Here!
Tom