demo background question please

in the line where you put the map of where your demo is shot, how can i just enter in a blank, white back ground? whats the command look like? thanks in advanced

As far as I know, there's no way to do a blank WHITE background. I've done BLACK, primarily by dropping the character and the camera about 500 feet below the surface of whatever map I'm on.

However, the video geeks (and I mean that in a good way) like Leandro, Scuzzbopper, and the rest might know better.

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You can put in no map at all, but you'll end up in an empty blue sky (or black, depending on the in game time). Just make sure to leave in the first bit of the line so it looks like this:

0 0 Map

An all white background though? hm, can't help you there. Though if you drop the camera/characters about 1000 feet you can achieve a solid blue or black. From there, if you have the software/knowhow, you can likely use that background as a bluescreen and make it white.

Also, I haven't tried it, but you should even be able to get a solid green or red if you mess with the skyfile command.

i was wondering, maybe i can put the cam and the chars like 500ft in the sky, maybe then i could get close to a white background....

Only one way to find out . Though I suspect it will still be a blue sky.

yea lol, hmmm how do i make it the shot in the sky with my chars anyways, ? lol.

Use Splasher to set the textures of your SG base to pure white, then just take a screenshot standing in your base. That's what I do when I want a screenie with a white background, much easier than demoediting (unless I want a specific mov that's not available.)

The color of the sky is defined inside the misc.pigg file, and it can't be changed without hacking into that file (a big no no). The "data" overrides folder won't help with this specific thing.

ah ok, well what im tryin to do is get alot of my gfs alts in one shot and i wanna be able to have a white background so i can print it out onto a shirt.

i guess what i can do is photoshop then all in the pic but, how do you make your sg all white with splasher? i just use it to change the login pics and music...

Go to the 'Textures' tab, it will have a dropdown box to let you pick categories of stuff.

So if your base has an arcane tileset, pick Supergroup Base Style: Arcane and apply a white image to all the textures in that category (there's a checkbox for that).

If you find that the background feels "rugged", pick also Supergroup Base Style: Arcane (Bump Maps) and apply a pure grey (rgb=127,127,127) image to that, also checking the box to apply to everything. That will give you a nice and white wall to take screenies at (may need to increase the lighting of the base, or just pick a better wall if you find one's too dark).

Once you're done taking screenies, click the "Restore default texture" button in Splasher with the Arcane base category selected and the checkbox marked, and it will revert all the textures to their originals (you may need to log off and back on to see them again).