Abit of an odd request...

I was wondering if anyone could possibly help me out abit with a little project I'm working on. See, I found a little game making program and due to a lack of a good idea for my own off the top of my head, I decided I'd use it to make a sort of CoX fan game sorta thing.

Now, what I need help with, exactly, is some pictures of different NPCs from the game. Basically just regular old screenshots of them just idle or in combat, BUT, the hard part is I need them to be JUST the NPC, with just a plain old white backround behind them that can be made transparent. I'm sure that could some how be done with demo recording/editing, but I'm a total noob at that sorta stuff, so I figured I'd come ask for some help with this on the forums

Basically I just need any kinds of NPCs you can think of. Heroes, AVs, Baddies, Contacts, Ect Ect. HUGE thanks in advance to anyone that decides to help me out with this If I can, I'll see if I can give some kind of "pay" for this (Currently super poor ingame right now, and not exactly the kinda person to give out money to strangers over the internet).

Once again, muchos gracias in advance. Any and all help is fully appreciated

Check out Paragon Wiki. It has what you seek.

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Check out Paragon Wiki. It has what you seek.

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I've tried Paragonwiki, but not all the NPCs have white backgrounds, and the ones that do won't seem to go transparent due to being saved as Jpgs

Use whatever graphics program you might have to color the backgrounds white then save them as a gif.

Use Leandro's SPLASHER program to 'change' the texture and color of your base to all white. If you do a search on how to 'green screen' here on the forums (in the Multi-Media section, if memory serves), you can use that to go for white instead.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Or point a link to this program, and maybe someone can do it all.

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Use Leandro's SPLASHER program to 'change' the texture and color of your base to all white. If you do a search on how to 'green screen' here on the forums (in the Multi-Media section, if memory serves), you can use that to go for white instead.


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The problem with that idea would be I need screenshots of NPCs. You know, Hellions, Arachnos, Nemesis, Minions, Bosses, AVs, and all that sorta stuff. It'd be near impossible to get an NPC in my base without demo editing, which I said in my original post I can't do

And as for the program, all I really need is the pictures themselves, getting them into the game and such is something I've done previously with some 'test' images off of paragonwiki (the ones that didn't work due to being .jpgs)

I think I could probably go around at do this for some NPCs, my stalker and a few of my characters that use invis can get in close to get some nice close pose shots. I did that with a few of the Praetorian AVs on my blaster.

Getting them onto a white background is going to be the harder part, and making sure the file is transparent. I've downloaded and installed GIMP to play around with, what file type would you need it saved as to use instead of jpgs?

I'd say best bet would be .PNG if possible (It's what I usually save pictures as, and that seems to work.). And just incase I didn't repeat it enough in the first post that, muchos gracias

so... something like the following? here's a shot of Anti-Matter

original .jpg with background

.png with white background - best I can do with the program atm, I suck on editing images. but this is what yer going for?

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so... something like the following? here's a shot of Anti-Matter

original .jpg with background

.png with white background - best I can do with the program atm, I suck on editing images. but this is what yer going for?

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Actually. that worked out pretty dang well! Gunna upload it into the program real quick as a test to see if the transparency works out right.

EDIT: Works PERFECT! Thanks!

really? there's a bit of a blurry black-y outline around him that I didn't clear out because I didn't want to accidentally erase part of Anti and I'm too lazy at the moment to zoom deeply and remove it. but if that's good enough I can try to do similar on future screenies. Can't guarantee I'll have them done fast as I'm trying to work on a fan fic story and trying to write portions as they come to mind when I know how I want to write it.

how many of these screenies were you looking for and anything specific? my stalker is 17 atm, and I wouldn't mind starting to work on her again anyway, so I was gonna just start taking pics of the mobs as I encounter them in missions, etc. I can prolly use my a 50 on either side to go zone hopping and take some pics of mobs in that manner as well.

Since I'm only just getting started on the thing, I basically need some shots of various low level enemies, such as Hellions, Skulls, Clockwork, anything you might find from, say, levels one through ten. I'll make sure to let you know if/when I'll be needing more than that

EDIT: Oh, and about the outline, it would be great if you could get rid of it, but if removing it causes any problems, I can understand fully if it stays.

level 1-10 k... so heroside thats AP/GC and KR roughly. so hellions, skulls, clocks, circle, vahz, clockwork and council (though the council is a small part in a GC arc I think) that's jsut heroside though...

cov side 1-10 is roughly mercy and port oakes, cap can be included there but I tend to stay on PO until I'm done with the contacts there so just mercy and PO are arachnos, longbow, snakes, RIP, hellions, skulls, infected, family, coralax, council, mooks and spectral pirates...

jeebus that's a bit of groups there and that's just whats running around outside on the zones themselves... and each group has a few different kinds of minions, a couple of different lt types and then a type of boss or two... i'll work on this when I can.. definitely not something quick though.. depending on how many shots of each type you'd want.

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EDIT: Oh, and about the outline, it would be great if you could get rid of it, but if removing it causes any problems, I can understand fully if it stays.

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like I said earlier.... I can try buit I suck and image editing. I haven't done much with GIMP so the only way I can figure to remove what I don't want is get close as I can to the figure outline then zoome in and erase away, so if I try getting rid of the outline I might erase into the mob itself at points. I can try though... jsut a warnin though

Considering most of the game takes place blue side, really all I need are hero enemies in that range (Sorry if I wasn't clear about that earlier.) But I'm patient and understand this could take awhile, so take as long as you need.