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Posted Wed 21 Sep, 2016 9:14 AM
So this is my first signature that I've done myself. My process.
Got ingame and set renderscale to 2. For background, I setregionfov space to 20 so I could get a decent scale of ship to surroundings.
Then I used demorecord for about a minute and did the same on ESD for my toon.
Got out of game and opened fraps. Then used demorecord launcher and got a screenshot of both my ship and my toon.
I then used gimp to cut out my toon and paste him on the background added text and exported the whole shebang out.
Finally, I opened my new image with paint, cropped the edges, resized the image and saved it as a png file.
Took about an hour, but it didn't turn out too bad considering the rig I run on.
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Posted Wed 21 Sep, 2016 1:55 PM
Definitely can see the hard effort put in. It isn't easy work, as you stated, due to it taking about an hour. Time tends to fly when you are doing this stuff.
Totally agree with renderscale 2. It does slow things down a bit, but it is great for taking that higher resolution screenshot to use.
A few suggestions, for future attempts and work...
- Use Layers. Layers are wonderful. Layers save you time when you see something you missed/need to fix. Layers are your friend.
- Image positioning, i.e. the 'focus' of your screenshot. Like for our forum signatures, you want your ship/background focus image to be just a bit left of center, so it doesn't detract from your character/avatar yet still maintain it's majesty as it compliments you (your avatar). Granted the position will change depending on your desired final product, but it is something I see a lot with image submissions. If you put your "focus" (ex: your ship) on the edge or near the border, you will not have any play to adjust how to center it in your signature.
- Character image. Higher resolution makes the pixels/lines easier to see and cut out. Also, don't forget about the underarm area. Or the area between say a pony-tail and the head. Those small areas are easy to overlook. Typically, I do the super zoom in, to the individual pixel squares on trouble areas to edit/refine the edges/lines. The top of the Andorian ears for example.
Some other helpful and general tips can be found here: https://ufplanets.com/forumdisplay.p...tures-Requests
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Unfortunately, I can't afford photoshop. I had fraps given to me, or I would not even have that. I would love to get the kind of graphics I see around here, but my PC is nearly 5 years old, and I only have a geforce 750ti graphics card.
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I was wondering, in signature boxes which text font style is used for ship info and character info. was also wondering what and where to find the symbols before and/or after wording?
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