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Baker Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1538 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:40 am Post subject: Making Complex 2D HUD graphics |

What software is good at making things like the HUD elements above. Anti-aliased shapes, lines, etc? (Please don't say AutoCAD) _________________ Tomorrow Never Dies. I feel this Tomorrow knocking on the door ...

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metlslime Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 177 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:17 am Post subject: |

photoshop

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Error Inside3D Staff Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 558 Location: VA, USA

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:19 am Post subject: |

paint shop pro if you hate photoshop like me... _________________ Inside3D : Knowledge Is Power Darkplaces Documentation Wiki

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gnounc Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 120 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:37 am Post subject: |

Paint shop pro was my intro to image editing... it will always have a special place for me. That said, photoshop all the way. Until gimp gets a few more things straightened out anyways. I love the gimp but it just...it just makes me weep sometimes.

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Baker Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1538 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:14 am Post subject: |

I guess it's photoshop then. Let's see ... $599 off Adobe web site. $89 if I am a student. Or $0.99 on E-Bay.
(Gimp doesn't seem well suited to the task; Paintshop Pro kinda is and kinda isn't.... )
I've done some cursory looking around for open source alternatives for this kind of task. The selection is rather sparse and seemingly unmature.
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Baker Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1538 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:23 am Post subject: |

I really would prefer to use something open source ... Giving Inkscape a shot ... we'll see how it turns out. http://www.inkscape.org/ Three reasons to support Open Source in situations like these: 1. Bloatware. Applications that entirely too massive for what they do. Like say 2 GB or 567 MB for something that should only be 10-50 MB.
2. DRM. Make the application inefficient and inconvenient and hard to install or move to stop pirates at the expense of the legitimate user.
3. Or in this case ... we all know Photoshop gets pirated a lot. Photoshop really should be $59, instead it is $699 (companies that don't care how they spend $$$) or reasonably priced for students ($89).
You know there is some sort of market failure when the student version costs 12% of the retail price.
Buying applications like that is support their future. Some scurvy dogs would argue that pirating that kind of software is the way to go ... and putting the obvious moral grounds aside that is STILL supporting their future because it is not supporting a better future.
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Downsider Joined: 16 Sep 2008 Posts: 478 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:06 am Post subject: |

I use Paint.NET because it works fine for me and I'm more into pixel art than anything, so even paint would do.

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r00k Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 483 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:17 am Post subject: |

The artwork itself is trivial, the coding and aligning everything properly is the actual work.

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leileilol Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1321 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:22 am Post subject: |

Source uses .ttfs for hud glyphs, which is the most retarded idea ever _________________

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Downsider Joined: 16 Sep 2008 Posts: 478 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:31 am Post subject: |

leileilol wrote:
Source uses .ttfs for hud glyphs, which is the most retarded idea ever

Isn't that so they can scale at different resolutions like vector graphics?

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Baker Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1538 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:21 am Post subject: |

Update: Inkscape is very good Snap to grip, ability to create nodes within shapes. _________________ Tomorrow Never Dies. I feel this Tomorrow knocking on the door ...

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Spirit Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 476 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:32 am Post subject: |

Yes, something like that is easy in Inkscape. For the blur just clone everything and set blur to 3 or something like that. _________________ Quake Maps

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Baker Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1538 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:56 am Post subject: |

Yeah, I'm liking Inkscape ... I'm gonna start a thread with some shots. _________________ Tomorrow Never Dies. I feel this Tomorrow knocking on the door ...

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Sajt Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 1026 |

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject: |

I have to defend Paint Shop Pro here. I use PSP7. Starting with version 8 it became a bad Photoshop clone. (Floating toolbars? 10 minutes to load the program?) It is useful for 99% of what you could possibly want to do in a bitmap editor. That is, simple tasks. I don't know what the confusing Photoshop can do that warrants its huge pricetag, but I'm not missing it. (Although in older times I wished PSP could easily do the "offset" thing which made seamless-texture cleanup easier.)
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