utahjazz7
Deity
Plotinus said:
It certainly is possible to edit palettes within paint programs like Paint Shop Pro. It's just that--for me--pEdit is much easier. Of course, if pEdit will not open your images, then it's not gonna be easier.
Unit Making Tutorial by utahjazz7 (May 9, 2005)
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It certainly is possible to edit palettes within paint programs like Paint Shop Pro. It's just that--for me--pEdit is much easier. Of course, if pEdit will not open your images, then it's not gonna be easier.
zulu9812
The Newbie Nightmare
Incidentally, if I wanted to create a unit without any civ colours, is it enough to simply render without any Blue (57:100:253) in the scene?
utahjazz7
Deity
zulu9812 said:
Basically yes. You'd probably want to eliminate all blues though because (57:100:253) is sort of the middle value of the range of civ-specific colors.
Or if you need blue in the unit--but not as civ-specific coloring--switch the civ-specific colors to something else. That can be done in FLICster. When you export a .flc to a storyboard, you can specify which civ-specific color will be the default, or what in the unit will be civ-specific. For example, you can set that to white, red, orange, yellow, etc. The change will be seen in the palette created by FLICster.
zulu9812
The Newbie Nightmare
Just to let people know that you can't get a texture map from the Spanish Shield .3ds file in order to make shield designs for it. So utahjazz7 has very kindly remade the shield and included a texture map for it.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/New_Sp_Shield_With_Map.zip
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/New_Sp_Shield_With_Map.zip
utahjazz7
Deity
zulu9812 said:
Thanks, zulu. I also made a not in post #3 where new information is updated.
mrkingkong
Young Padawan
Hi.Im a noob (which is why i read your tutorial in the first place) and for the most part i found it great! The only problem i had was that because of monetary problems (i dont have any 
), i was forced to download DAZ studio instead of Poser, and found translating your instructions a bit difficult.
I was upto the part where you start animating the foot, and couldnt for the life of me work out how to do it...
Perhaps i have misread some earlier instructions?
I personally think that it may be mostly to do with the port from Mac to Windows. Any help would be great (atlhough a new version of your tutorial especially for Windows would be better,
)!!!
But apart from that, your tutorial looks great! It has defiantely got me started on the road to unit creation anyhow!
), i was forced to download DAZ studio instead of Poser, and found translating your instructions a bit difficult. I was upto the part where you start animating the foot, and couldnt for the life of me work out how to do it...
Perhaps i have misread some earlier instructions?
I personally think that it may be mostly to do with the port from Mac to Windows. Any help would be great (atlhough a new version of your tutorial especially for Windows would be better,
)!!!But apart from that, your tutorial looks great! It has defiantely got me started on the road to unit creation anyhow!
zulu9812
The Newbie Nightmare
Rather than use the translate tool, I just use the dials
utahjazz7
Deity
mrkingkong said:Hi.Im a noob (which is why i read your tutorial in the first place) and for the most part i found it great! The only problem i had was that because of monetary problems (i dont have any
I was upto the part where you start animating the foot, and couldnt for the life of me work out how to do it...
Perhaps i have misread some earlier instructions?
I personally think that it may be mostly to do with the port from Mac to Windows. Any help would be great (atlhough a new version of your tutorial especially for Windows would be better,
But apart from that, your tutorial looks great! It has defiantely got me started on the road to unit creation anyhow!
As far as any operational difference from mac to windows, there really isn't one. The only thing that I am not sure about are the exact button and menu names. The process of animating a unit is the same though. Sorry, you'll have to find another excuse.
I'm just kidding there. I'm not familiar at all with DAZ studio, so I'm no help there. Good luck though.mrkingkong
Young Padawan
zulu9812 said:
Ok, thanks for both your help...
Perhaps it is the theory i am struggling to understand then.
utahjazz7 said:
Damn! Ill just have to think of a better one!
Erm...the tutorial crashed, yeah, erm, thats it!
Thanks again for doing this tuturial. I've now downloaded it and printed it out. I'm hoping to make some units for Anno Domini and this will certainly help.
utahjazz7
Deity
For those who are interested, here is a thread where I will post figures and props for use with Kinboat's paperdoll.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=2795262
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=2795262
Risbinroch
Prince
I have a question, not sure if this is the right place, oh and it's a wonderful tutorial!
I made a very basic and simple shiled in 3ds max, for this tutorial. I mean very basic, my spelling is not the best perhaps, but It was supposed to look like it was made of four wooden "planks" with glitches between them, roughly cut out. However when I imported that to Poser it was all in one mesh? Also made these "straps to hold the shield" - made two of them, sometimes only one showed up in poser and they were also part of the mesh...? Not sure if this is understandable... I tried to export both as 3ds and obj...
But is it one special plugin you make to export from max to poser?
I made a very basic and simple shiled in 3ds max, for this tutorial. I mean very basic, my spelling is not the best perhaps, but It was supposed to look like it was made of four wooden "planks" with glitches between them, roughly cut out. However when I imported that to Poser it was all in one mesh? Also made these "straps to hold the shield" - made two of them, sometimes only one showed up in poser and they were also part of the mesh...? Not sure if this is understandable... I tried to export both as 3ds and obj...
But is it one special plugin you make to export from max to poser?
utahjazz7
Deity
Risbinroch said:
I'm not a 3D modelling expert, but I'll lend my opinion. I believe that when you save your model, even if the your model has separate parts, it will always be concidered one object, meaning that all the parts move together and will have the same color and other properties. What you can do however, it to assign individual polygons to materials. For example the base of the shield could be a "wood" material. Then you could have a "straps" material. Then, the different parts of the model could have different properties. The other thing that you can do it the create a texture map for your object which you could then color and apply to the model. I'm not sure if that helps or not, but I think that that is what your were wondering about.
I'm not sure why one strap wouldn't show up, but I have also had this problem where when I export my model to .3ds format, pieces are missing. I don't understand why though.
WildWeazel
Carthago Creanda Est
utah, I can't find any references to PSP 3.0 anywhere on the Corel site (I even did a search). Where can I download it?
John Lennon Jr.
Younks
Hey everyone. This seems like a great tutorial, but i am unable to find the poser link. Does anyone know where i could get this?
utahjazz7
Deity
Weasel Op said:
The problem is that PSP 3.0 is old. I don't think that you can dowload it from the Corel site itself. I first started using it back when CivII first came out--long time ago, it seems. I still have the two floppies that I originally used to install it. I've used the free trial for a couple of newer versions, but I like this version 3.0 the best. All that said, here's what you really want . . . a link where it can still be downloaded from. I should have just posted this originally.
http://www.pagetutor.com/pagetutor/makapage/psp/
John Lennon Jr. said:
I don't know what you mean by the Poser link. Do you mean a link to download the program? If so, I'm afraid that I do not know of you. There is no free trial for Poser, as far as I know. You're best bet is to buy it, if you want it.
flamescreen
Ancient Mariner
utahjazz7 said:
This is a poser glitch actually.
I import to other software and they come normally, seperate. But in poser, I'm pretty sure even its own models will be imported as one(actually, i'm certain as I've tried it).
Varlin Saliptor
Does not hate the future.
utahjazz7 said:
I think he means the link in the second post, which doesn't work, as Curious Labs is no longer 'Curious Labs'. I found the new site the other day, however.
LouLong
In love with Rei Ayanami
GREAT tutorial !
This has solved most of the problems I had before ! I think I am back and will eventually release something !
On the other hand I have one new issue : I cannot see the shadows anymore. Did I do something wrong at one time ?
And my last remaining issue is the palette. I am partly color-blind which does not help much and in you tutorial the part is covered briefly (guess you were tired or thought it was obvious).
So if someone has proficiency at palette editing and wants to work with me....
This has solved most of the problems I had before ! I think I am back and will eventually release something !
On the other hand I have one new issue : I cannot see the shadows anymore. Did I do something wrong at one time ?
And my last remaining issue is the palette. I am partly color-blind which does not help much and in you tutorial the part is covered briefly (guess you were tired or thought it was obvious).
So if someone has proficiency at palette editing and wants to work with me....
