[Lightsource]

Three small things while I'm making the fire...

Two new bullet castings with different details and lights.


And a new more detailed texture for the shark ( I tried to keep the colors closer to the original 2D shark )... the glow map is the same as the current one.

[SwissCm]

The title screen is quite nice, though the contrast is way too high, as is most of your artwork. Is your monitor properly calibrated?

[Spiker]

Lightsource: What software did you use to create the fire? If you used some 3d application (which is most probable) there should be an option to turn the background transparent. At least it's possible in Blender.

[osjclatchford]

sorry guys but how can I get the new octa-projectiles to work.

I opened the hrp.zip, deleted the old ones (BTW this took my machine 15 mins to do!) then I tried to copy/paste the new ones in but it just crashed out after 5 or so mins and had wiped out all the files in the whole .zip file except for a few of the new ones I was copying in. I have a backup so no worries there... but is there an easier way than this, wtf am I doing wrong? (I expect a lot )
thanks in advance

latchford.

[Lightsource]

SwissCm, on 07 July 2011 - 09:19 PM, said:

The title screen is quite nice, though the contrast is way too high, as is most of your artwork. Is your monitor properly calibrated?

Yes it is, the contrast is mostly a personal taste, but sometimes I don't realize it and I overdo it.

Spiker, on 07 July 2011 - 10:08 PM, said:

Lightsource: What software did you use to create the fire? If you used some 3d application (which is most probable) there should be an option to turn the background transparent. At least it's possible in Blender.

I'm not using a 3d software at the moment... all that I did is made in photoshop. If I need to use a video source I use some video editing software to export the frames into separate pictures ( I'll also adjust the timings, frame numbers and loops ), and I edit them separately... this way it helps me have more control with the way that the frames are going to end up looking.

osjclatchford, on 08 July 2011 - 06:41 AM, said:

sorry guys but how can I get the new octa-projectiles to work.

I opened the hrp.zip, deleted the old ones (BTW this took my machine 15 mins to do!) then I tried to copy/paste the new ones in but it just crashed out after 5 or so mins and had wiped out all the files in the whole .zip file except for a few of the new ones I was copying in. I have a backup so no worries there... but is there an easier way than this, wtf am I doing wrong? (I expect a lot )
thanks in advance

latchford.

Check the folder in which the frames are ( octabrain blast is in polymer_hrp.zip\highres\sprites\projectiles ) and drag the new ones into the rar... then you can select not to compress the files, so it doesn't take too long. Not very subtle but it works

[osjclatchford]

ok, mine's a .zip not .rar but that is exactly what I was doing
thanks anyway...
I guess it's just my machine is not man enough ram-wise...

[Besli]

Hey, what do you think about redoing Duke's footprints?
If somebody remember the Duke Nukem Advanced intro "movie",
Duke's boots had a nuclear sign on them...

[osjclatchford]

Besli, on 10 July 2011 - 12:55 AM, said:

Hey, what do you think about redoing Duke's footprints?
If somebody remember the Duke Nukem Advanced intro "movie",
Duke's boots had a nuclear sign on them...

totally agree here!
I've only just played that recently on a freinds gba. (I never had one, and never new the game existed till a fortnight ago!)
When I saw the intro just knew that those boots/prints would have to be implemented for hrp too!

[Lightsource]

Besli, on 10 July 2011 - 12:55 AM, said:

Hey, what do you think about redoing Duke's footprints?
If somebody remember the Duke Nukem Advanced intro "movie",
Duke's boots had a nuclear sign on them...

Ok not a bad idea at all... I checked the original footprints sprites ( the old ones, not the HD ) and I noticed that they are entirely different from the HD version so I recreated the old ones, with some different details including this new idea. As far as I know, I positioned the images in the correct way ( left & right )... if there's something wrong let me know.

They have the same gray color as before, so they don't look too strong with the gray background of the forum, but they are fine in game.

[Besli]

Wow, really nice work on the footprints, Lightsource!

[osjclatchford]

damn, all you gotta do is sugest something and three seconds later the guys done it! many thanks...

*UPDATE*
ok, tried 'em in-game and I'm afraid they need a bit of a tweak; the 'grey' colour of the print needs to be about 40% lighter in colour , because when the colour of what you've stepped in is overlayed on the prints, it is barely distinquishable at present, in fact all prints are almost black...

sorry to nitpick but, hey, its just imo...
*END*

[SchoeteCitie]

Hey, since you're such a friggin' epic Photoshopper, maybe you should remake the old Shotgun sprite in HD? I mean, the shotgun is one of the most loved guns in the game so..yeah.

[Lightsource]

SchoeteCitie, on 11 July 2011 - 11:21 PM, said:

Hey, since you're such a friggin' epic Photoshopper, maybe you should remake the old Shotgun sprite in HD? I mean, the shotgun is one of the most loved guns in the game so..yeah.

You mean the old 2d sprite or the texture for the new 3d shotgun... I'm not currently doing sprites for the HD versions of the old sprites, and don't have a 3d program installed at the moment to make an entirely new shotgun model. I think the current 3d shotgun looks pretty good, but if I have time in the future to model a new weapon I'll give it a try.

In the meantime here four things that I did... I wasn't happy with my bullet castings from previous post so I did them again... this time trying to make them look closer to the original, including the second casting in a different position ( now it looks like the bullet moves )... also I did a more fiery version of the RPG muzzle flash and a clearer version of the dollar bill.

[gt1750]

The previous fire was my work and I wasn't very pleased by the result, the tediousness of the process discouraged me from improving it any further. It's good to see you made this excellent replacement. Great work on the explosions, too

However I don't really see the reason to replace the octabrain projectile frames, I thought mine were reasonably detailed and close enough to the original.

[Lightsource]

gt1750, on 12 July 2011 - 12:02 PM, said:

The previous fire was my work and I wasn't very pleased by the result, the tediousness of the process discouraged me from improving it any further. It's good to see you made this excellent replacement. Great work on the explosions, too

However I don't really see the reason to replace the octabrain projectile frames, I thought mine were reasonably detailed and close enough to the original.

Well believe that I didn't do it with the intention of replacing your stuff with mine...since the original pics were not made by hand frame by frame but using a video source, the animation was fluid and consistent, and so you can have some problems when re-drawing the animation by hand because you need to re imagine the original picture. I only thought that I could do the same as them, but with a higher resolution, besides it does not mean that yours is going to be replaced.

[Lightsource]

One more thing for today... here's a WIP video for the remake of the intro movie for the game, I used my atomic logo that I posted in the first page for the video. The animation is kind of crappy at the moment, but I guess I can make it better. I would seriously like some input on the thing, so I know if I continue to finish it, or I leave it alone...

I uploaded the video here.

[Hank]

In the original, the fire ball appeared to move three dimensionally (away and then explode), in the current video, it seems to have a much longer but two dimensional flight path, to me, it looks less interesting. Just saying.

[DavoX]

Also it abruptly changes direction to the left. Maybe you should check that too.

[rasmus thorup]

I like what you are doing, less talk more awesomeness. The last video here didn't come out too well i think I would like more explosions

[osjclatchford]

ok, not that I don't appreciate lightsource's work on the shotshell, but I have edited it further to include dukes signature radiation symbol.

lock and load me
its not a breathtaking sprite job, I know but I don't use photoshop or anything fancy like that...

Why?

well, maybe it was because the original had no writing, or maybe its because the writing on the new one often goes backwards when the shell animates, or maybe its because the current writing says; 'buck and pheasant load' (why are hunting shells being used in a warzone? surely they'd be '00' standard issue kill-shot?), let alone 'winchester' where-as the shell box clearly states; 'Remington' on the side , or maybe its because the shell moves to fast to see the writing clearly anyway.

well, it could just be that it was just all of the above.
Anyway, with this one, the 'duke' symbol can't really appear backwards when animating and is clear to see even at the breifest of glimpses.

love it or loathe it, your choice!

regards
Latchford

[Lightsource]

osjclatchford, on 13 July 2011 - 11:43 PM, said:

ok, not that I don't appreciate lightsource's work on the shotshell, but I have edited it further to include dukes signature radiation symbol.

lock and load me
its not a breathtaking sprite job, I know but I don't use photoshop or anything fancy like that...

Not bad, I haven't thought of the writings, the shell moves too fast to read it anyway. Although the original is a png with 256 indexed color, and this one is RGB 24 bits... I'm not sure how it is going to look in game.

Anyway I took your idea and applied it to the shotgun box ammo. I also leave another one without the symbol... but still with some new details, like different shading in the shel and box.... and the shotgun shell with indexed color



Also I did a new 0070 graphic ( wood behind the mirror )... I tried to make it with a similar color as the original but with some new details, shading and texture. Along with it, I did the normal and specular maps.



Edit: I updated the shotgun ammo textures with the closing for the shell, so it looks more complete and realistic. Make sure to change the texture names to 0049shotgunammo.png and 2535.png if you update the zip file.

[Tea Monster]

That's gorgeous! I love the colours on that wood plank.

[Jimmy]

The broken mirror is marvelous. I don't know if that's an edit of the shotgun ammo's texture or something you've made yourself, but that box looks like shit to be frank. Cartoony coloring/texturing with flat 'pasted on' writing. The Atomic Shell is really cool though, I like that.

[Lightsource]

Thanks, I'm glad the wood thingy was well liked.

Captain Awesome, on 14 July 2011 - 03:36 PM, said:

The broken mirror is marvelous. I don't know if that's an edit of the shotgun ammo's texture or something you've made yourself, but that box looks like shit to be frank. Cartoony coloring/texturing with flat 'pasted on' writing. The Atomic Shell is really cool though, I like that.

Ahh don't blame me, the shotgun box texture was not made by me, I only added the shadowing ( because I thought it looked too flat ) and the nuclear symbol in the alternate version ... but the red color, text and texture was from the original file... I can make a hole new texture if the current one doesn't look to good.

The atomic shell was Latchford idea.

[Lightsource]

Here's another version of the shotgun shell box... but this time it's an entirely new design, without trying to go too far from the original 2d version.

The brand is the original Remington and I also tried to imitate the design of their boxes, replacing their crosshair logo with the atomic symbol in the same place. The texture is also new with different shading and details... unfortunately I couldn't add all the writing that I wanted ( warnings and stuff ) because the sides repeat except for the front, and it looks like crap with the text, but I still I used the symbol as a pattern from one side to the other.

Also the top of the box is flipped because it shares part of the texture with the front flap... but it looks in the correct position in game, and the flap uses the lines pattern that I did at the top.

Two versions one with the alternate shotgun shell...

[Besli]

Wow, really nice stuff!

The first shotgun ammo model and textures was made by me, but I'm not very experienced in 2d art...

[Besli]

I was also thinking about puting the "real" Remington logo onto it, but then I decided to keep it close to the original sprite.
Hey Lightsource, can I make another request?

Can you make a new #3392 with better grass and this nuke symbol:
http://www3.picturep...em-Symbol02.jpg
(And maybe also new #3401, #3402 and #3403, with better grass)

Tile #0803 is only the grass, I think. Oh, and I think it would be nice if they are 512x512 (or bigger).

Thank you very much!!

[osjclatchford]

like the new ammo box, but when you remade my shotshell 256 indexed colour you've changed the position of the logo for some reason, mine was made to wrap around the shell where as yours looks rather static and out of alignment.
also, as for the image colour index, I don't know what that is or why its necessary as the shell works fine in eduke32 as it is, but I guess you guys know it better than I...
anyway, as I said LOVING the ammo box and the mirror looks groovy, great stuff as usual!

[Danukem]

Lightsource has done some stellar work featured in this thread which I hope makes its way to the official HRP soon. I'm especially looking forward to trying out the new fire (is that finished, by the way?)

I only have one criticism, which is that imo the inclusion of nuke symbols on the ammo box and shell casings is gratuitous. There is an unfortunate tendency in the HRP to put nuke symbols on just about everything, which brings the whole project down a bit. Yes, we know he is Duke Nukem, but that doesn't mean he lives in a world where nuke symbols are everywhere. That certainly wasn't the case in the original art from 1996. It's like the world of the HRP has become a nuke symbol worshiping cult (or perhaps a Duke Nukem worshiping cult, which is just as ridiculous).

[Tetsuo]

DeeperThought, on 15 July 2011 - 01:09 AM, said:

It's like the world of the HRP has become a nuke symbol worshiping cult (or perhaps a Duke Nukem worshiping cult, which is just as ridiculous).

Ah, you mean like Duke Nukem Forever.... the world there was like that.... (a Duke Nukem worshipping cult with nuke symbols everywhere... and ridiculous... depending on who you talk to. )

Also I thought here at Duke4 we where a Duke Nukem worshipping cult as well.