vferrari Posted January 8, 2019 Group: Members Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 5 Reputation: 6 Joined: 07/19/17 Last Seen: October 11 Share Posted January 8, 2019 (edited) Hi folks! That's my first post here, so huh, take it easy on me. Well, I've been playing around with GRF editing, in fact almost a year now, and I think I finally figured out how to deal with .str files (actually I'm thinking about making a tutorial for that since I couldn't find it anywhere and had to figure it by myself) So I've made this, it wasn't meant to be a good-looking effect but rather an easy to avoid one, and I'd really like if you guys could rate it. Thanks Also sorry if that's the wrong area, I don't rly know for sure tbh; Edited January 8, 2019 by vferrari 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zell Posted January 8, 2019 Group: Members Topic Count: 53 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 411 Reputation: 256 Joined: 04/25/12 Last Seen: 17 hours ago Share Posted January 8, 2019 Nice one. I tutorial would be nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litro Endemic Posted January 8, 2019 Group: Members Topic Count: 25 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 283 Reputation: 76 Joined: 06/13/13 Last Seen: June 7 Share Posted January 8, 2019 4 hours ago, Zell said: Nice one. I tutorial would be nice +1, yes it would be great, please share the tutorial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LearningRO Posted January 9, 2019 Group: Members Topic Count: 107 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 764 Reputation: 68 Joined: 02/10/12 Last Seen: 21 hours ago Share Posted January 9, 2019 i dont see any pict or video? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rizta Posted January 9, 2019 Group: Members Topic Count: 22 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 109 Reputation: 5 Joined: 08/12/17 Last Seen: March 30, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2019 its really good. i love it =D Pls do a tutorial! It might help the community Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hikashin-rae Posted February 7, 2019 Group: Members Topic Count: 18 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 208 Reputation: 22 Joined: 01/14/13 Last Seen: November 24 Share Posted February 7, 2019 bump also i like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celldweller6 Posted October 27, 2019 Group: Members Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 15 Reputation: 0 Joined: 10/22/19 Last Seen: November 17, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Cara por favor ensina a mexer com .str help plz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chillxdd Posted January 21, 2020 Group: Members Topic Count: 0 Topics Per Day: 0 Content Count: 3 Reputation: 1 Joined: 05/16/14 Last Seen: February 21 Share Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) Spent a good hour figuring out how vferrari did this, and while I'm not very good at tutorials, I'd be happy to upload my results. Please see attached files for Meteor Storm (I don't have much experience with renewal files so I didn't bother with Comet). While my attempt was extremely accurate with the grid that would be hit by MS, the downside of this is that when the screen is rotated, the effect remains the same and thus becomes inaccurate in predicting which cells would be hit by MS. This is the reason why I release these files to you now, instead of keeping it for myself. Also, I am not great with recording or making GIFs, so please feel free to test them out yourself. Please download ALL the files. 0lordbl.bmp meteor1.str meteor2.str meteor3.str meteor4.str Edited January 21, 2020 by chillxdd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vferrari Posted March 1, 2020 Group: Members Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 5 Reputation: 6 Joined: 07/19/17 Last Seen: October 11 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 (edited) Hey @Chillxdd I'm glad to see you liked it and also tried to replicate it, maybe that's why I didn't realeased any tutorial yet, I like when people try their best trying to figure out how someone else did something like I did And you did a great job! Congrats! I downloaded your files to check how you did it, and here's a side-by-side comparison with my own version in str viewer Just a few tips: Spoiler If you're making a sprite for an effect and you planing to make it a single color only, ALWAYS make it as a grayscale texture (only black and white colors), you can add the color u want your sprite to be in the render pass like I did on STR Viewer, you can add Red/Green/Blue and Alpha Colors on de RGBA section on STR Viewer. You don't have to use that ugly pink color (#FF00FF) to render the sprite as transparent, you can mess with the blend modes to get rid of the black part of the texture, setting its Source/Destination blend on the Blend secction in STR Viewer, here's how my sprite looks like: feeh_meteoro.bmp When trying to limitate an AoE hitbox (also in some other cases), you can add an outer glow effect to your sprite border to make it smoother like i did, that's not a rule, but in most cases it'll make your sprite look way better. Xoxo Edited March 1, 2020 by vferrari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis T Steinhil Posted July 17, 2020 Group: Members Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 81 Reputation: 11 Joined: 06/22/13 Last Seen: October 31 Share Posted July 17, 2020 On 1/9/2019 at 12:59 AM, vferrari said: Hi folks! That's my first post here, so huh, take it easy on me. Well, I've been playing around with GRF editing, in fact almost a year now, and I think I finally figured out how to deal with .str files (actually I'm thinking about making a tutorial for that since I couldn't find it anywhere and had to figure it by myself) So I've made this, it wasn't meant to be a good-looking effect but rather an easy to avoid one, and I'd really like if you guys could rate it. Thanks Also sorry if that's the wrong area, I don't rly know for sure tbh; Hi guys how can I edit it like this? ^ This one only got the exclamation graphic but it doesn't have the meteor sprite On 1/22/2020 at 12:38 AM, chillxdd said: Spent a good hour figuring out how vferrari did this, and while I'm not very good at tutorials, I'd be happy to upload my results. Please see attached files for Meteor Storm (I don't have much experience with renewal files so I didn't bother with Comet). While my attempt was extremely accurate with the grid that would be hit by MS, the downside of this is that when the screen is rotated, the effect remains the same and thus becomes inaccurate in predicting which cells would be hit by MS. This is the reason why I release these files to you now, instead of keeping it for myself. Also, I am not great with recording or making GIFs, so please feel free to test them out yourself. Please download ALL the files. 0lordbl.bmp 48.05 kB · 27 downloads meteor1.str 2.84 kB · 25 downloads meteor2.str 2.84 kB · 20 downloads meteor3.str 2.84 kB · 19 downloads meteor4.str 2.84 kB · 19 downloads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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