Vietnam War Infantry Series
- Thread starter Gary Childress
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wolf_66
Lone Civer
Gary
I just came across this site http://www.popsmoke.com/USA.html. It shows several pics of US/ARVN/NVA/VC uniforms you may find useful
I just came across this site http://www.popsmoke.com/USA.html. It shows several pics of US/ARVN/NVA/VC uniforms you may find useful
Gary Childress
Student for and of life
Once I create a storyboard for Flicster I use Paint Shop Pro X2 and the "Unsharp Mask" tool to crispen the image. It's a kind of happy medium between the unsharpened original and the "Sharpen more" tool. For my first sharpened units I created a couple years ago I used the "sharpen more" tool but that left the units very pixelated.
ShiroKobbure
Still modding Civ3
Do you know if photoshop has an unsharp mask?
Gary Childress
Student for and of life
tom2050
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It's under Filter-Sharpen-Unsharp Mask.
I've never used it before, but it sounds much better than using the sharpen tool as Gary mentioned.
ShiroKobbure
Still modding Civ3
Thanks it really makes the units look much crisper
Photoshop has always had that tool because it dates back to the darkroom days when technicians created them manually.
It depends upon what you are trying to achieve. The unsharp mask effects the pixels on an edge of an image fooling your eye into believing the image is sharper. Adobe Photoshop has the definitive USM tool, and Elements has the same tool. Photoshop has added Smart Sharpen, which is USM with additional options, and seems very nice. In these Adobe programs, you can hold the left mouse button down on the little image in the tool to see the unsharpened original, or let up to see the sharpening effect.
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Gary Childress
Student for and of life
ATTENTION EVERYONE WHO DOWNLOADED THE GREEN BERET FILE BEFORE 2/25/11:
I noticed a couple problems with the file recently.
1. I used a red civ color palette with the original file and some of the red civ color bled into the skin color on the arms and so parts of the left arm in some of the animations are civ color.
2. The muzzle flash was generating a shadow. I reanimated the attack FLC to get rid of the muzzle flash shadow. Obviously a muzzle flash shouldn't generate a shadow.
BOTH OF THESE PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN CORRECTED IN A NEW FILE UPLOADED 2/25/11. THE NEW FILE WAS UPLOADED OVER THE OLD ONE SO IT IS THE SAME DL PAGE JUST A NEW FILE IN ITS PLACE.
If you downloaded this file before 2/25/11, I recommend going back and redownloading the new corrected file. You will know if you have the corrected file because the date listed in the README.TXT file will say 2/25/11 NOT 2/13/11.
Thanks!
PS: I did NOT update the preview GIF in the OP with a new one so it still shows the flaws. However, these flaws should be gone now in the upload file.
I noticed a couple problems with the file recently.
1. I used a red civ color palette with the original file and some of the red civ color bled into the skin color on the arms and so parts of the left arm in some of the animations are civ color.
2. The muzzle flash was generating a shadow. I reanimated the attack FLC to get rid of the muzzle flash shadow. Obviously a muzzle flash shouldn't generate a shadow.
BOTH OF THESE PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN CORRECTED IN A NEW FILE UPLOADED 2/25/11. THE NEW FILE WAS UPLOADED OVER THE OLD ONE SO IT IS THE SAME DL PAGE JUST A NEW FILE IN ITS PLACE.
If you downloaded this file before 2/25/11, I recommend going back and redownloading the new corrected file. You will know if you have the corrected file because the date listed in the README.TXT file will say 2/25/11 NOT 2/13/11.
Thanks!
PS: I did NOT update the preview GIF in the OP with a new one so it still shows the flaws. However, these flaws should be gone now in the upload file.
John Falkner
Knight of the Round Table
You are the best, Gary 
Thank you for these wonderful units
I hope there will come a lot of more units in this Area...
Thank you for these wonderful units
I hope there will come a lot of more units in this Area...
Gary Childress
Student for and of life
You are the best, Gary
Thank you for these wonderful units
I hope there will come a lot of more units in this Area...
You are most welcome Mr. Falkner!
Gary Childress
Student for and of life
Just added the RoK Marine to the lineup in the OP.
Gary Childress
Student for and of life
Unfortunately there isn't much of anything to Civ color on this one. No back pack or anything.
El Justo
Deity
great work on the RoK Marine, Gary. the attention to detail is impressive as usual 
ShiroKobbure
Still modding Civ3
I also could use some civ colored versions for my epic mod. No hurry though.
