Unit Shadows

[freestyler]

When creating units, how does one put in shadows?

I mean for instance, if i was to simply create a new unit just by copying + pasting parts of existing units, (eg. Elephant and Archer) You know...just to mix the parts of the two to forn a new unit, how would you put in the shadows ??

I thought if a 'sample' the green bit (the shadow) and paste it wer it should go, it would work..but no?

Shadows for custom units is too hard to put in !!
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[Arne]

I guess, this has to do with the palette colours/position of colours in the palette. But I didn't test it out. Could anyone (Snoopy?, Womok?) say somthing about how it works?

 

[Dark Sheer]

Actually it is within the palette. The last colour is transparent. Then the other 32 from the last (222 – 254) is the shadow. With 254 being the darkest and 222 the lightest. To make thing simple, I usually use only 8 slot (246-254) for shadow shading and fill the remaining slot (222-245) with a colour that is not used in any other part of the palette. All you need to do for shadow shading in PaintShopPro is to give each shade a 20% different in brightness.

Hope that helps.

 

[Arne]

Thank you Dark Sheer . I think that will help me too. I will try it now.