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[Zemious]

After watching this video: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=-oopKvaoSiY <-3:34
I decided to help this fella out and he doesn't know it.

Here is what I have so far, its made with the PTUX pallette but its not got but 3 colors so its easy to rip into other tilesets:

I think it needs more shading, but I can't figure out where to put it without making it look bad, can you guys give me some ideas?

[Bayta]

I dunno... I guess it could use some simple lighting effects, but besides that, I think it's great!

[The Satellite]

Yeah, a bit of shading with lighting effects wouldn't hurt. It still looks great. :O

[Akkabus]

maybe you should switch the order of the browns, so that the lightest brown is actually the second-lightest, and have the darkest brown a shade of gray or something. just throwing a suggestion into the air.

[Aaron1046]

Rely nice! but i need to agree with them, some lighting would be nice!
abd also, the menu on the top kinda stands out alot.

[Mitchfork]

Err... the menu? What are you talking about?

Anyway, the sign looks pretty nice. Shading will be a little difficult, but I think it would be worth the rewards to attempt it. A reference screenshot:
http://www.cedarsign...ge/27867723.jpg
That looks like good (if not entirely realistic) shading that would work well.

[Zemious]

I think he thinks that I made the video, I didn't.
It'd be extremely hard to shade it more like you suggested because I'd have to create a whole new palette for the PTUX tileset.

[Colin]

It's a flat surface, I don't think it should have to need shading, the sun hits it the same, what it would need is a lighter brown along the top rim, and possibly a small shadow along the post before it meets the sign.

Edited by Nuvo, 24 October 2007 - 11:59 PM.

[Joe123]

You made this for me without me even asking?!

Well thanks, I suppose

I don't get what it's meant to be for however?
Is it meant to be for the text background when reading the signs?
Because I wouldn't be able to use it for that; you only get to set the four corners tiles then ZC fills in from there :/
It's rubbish I know. Maybe if I pester _L_ he might do something about it...

However, at the moment, the wood looks very 'perfect' I think you need to rough up the edges on the grain. It's looking good though

[Zemious]

Behind the sign is suppost to have grass, detailed grass.
The view of this sign is suppost to be of when you kneel down and look at the sign up close.
I've ripped it into ZC already for PTUX.
I can try to rough it up and give it more of an old-wood feeling.

[Joe123]

You can't use this conventionally buuut
What I can do is add a drawtile function to the script so that it draws this on the screen instead!

However, I think it's unlikely that it's wide enough for a string. Strings cross almost all of the screen really.

[Teilyr]

You could always just remove the string and layer letters onto the sign.

If you did that, the width of the sign would not be an issue.

[Joe123]

Hrmmmmm
Very true. But can I freeze the screen via a script? Screen freeze combo perhaps?

[Limzo]

Would anybody (Joe, Zemious?) mind terribly if I use it? It could come in handy for my quest.

[Joe123]

Well I can't really call anyone not using it seeing as I didn't even ask for it to be made