The debut of some Kathy armor for Dungeon Siege 1
| Submitted by kathycf on Wed, 2007-01-31 17:11 | ||
I learned something. Not everything, but a good solid step in the direction of learning to create armor for DS1. A Huge thank you from my heart to sjr and lili. I had an idea a while back for some armor.
I don't know anything about skrit or coding or any of that other "wizardry" but I can edit images fairly decently so I decided to just totally wing something. I remembered when I had gone in to the image gallery of Kathy and Bare Elf ideas that I had seen somehting that would work for what I wanted. This is a piece of armor designed by bare_elf: http://www.herenaforge.org/tiki-browse_image.php?imageId=1066 I downloaded that and drew over it to create my image: The the moo czar sjr came and worked some wizardry upon my image: ^^ sjr wrote:
The dsres file I created is attached in my first post. That would show what I did. I just saved the image Kathy posted. Saved it as a psd file. Then used the psd to raw converter, which generates a raw and gas file for the art folder. Then I made a quick simple gas file for the interactive folder for the actual item/armor. If you put that dsres file in place you can wear the armor. It worked fine in the Abstraction folder (you can tell by the pointy ear girl I used in the image). The only think I didnt do was create a gui inventory icon, I just used a standard one. Creating armors or character skins when you already have a image that is already in DS view format is very easy to do. Most all skins/armors I made in Abstraction were done in a short time. Naming (what it is called - naming with template name is easy also since I just keep things the same/similar to avoid confusing myself) and deciding what stats to do take longer. This is his result:
Then Miss Lili came and worked her wizardry: bare_elf wrote: Then I took a basic armor template and changed it to support the new image. Which I called b_c_pos_a1_pleather.psd (see my blog) 
BTW All this comes originally from Herena Forge, my other wonderful Dungeon Siege home on the 'net. blogs: |
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Ah modding. I can hardly wait to mod some more myself, just have to get through these courses first..
You know, once you get into retexturing for DS it is really easy to create new stuff like enemies and shields and such as well. I'm currently moving (slowly) Nivisec's tutorials here. They are really good for teaching how to do the stuff sjr and lili did. Hopefully they will help others get started as well.
What a fine debut it was, thanks for sharing.
Oh, thank you solly.
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette
Xaa's "Learn Skrit and Gas in 30 Days" was made into a Windows help file, and someone did the same for Siege U. Links to current sites, or the files themselves, would be amjor resources.
Edit: The Siege U help file is at Microsoft. If they are no longer publishing DS, it might go away. The skrit one may be at more locations, but I found it at SN, which has already gone away a few times.
Abstraction site
Dungeon Raider
What image editor are you using for your painting kathy?
I have been using photofiltre, and have been pretty happy with it.
http://www.photofiltre.com/
It has some of the same features as the GIMP, but just seems easier to use to me.
There are all sorts of plugin and other things.
Here is something I did very easily with the program, btw.
I was able to turn this human
into a Dark elf.
To create my own little character mod.
Now if only I could get my Drow elf girl finished up...*rolls eyes*
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette