This is my current W.I.P. As you can see, its pretty crappy for a stage. Its supposed to be a mountain stage. Fighter factory won't let me put a sprite on the .sff file unless it is in 256 color format. That makes the stage look awful. Any way I can fix this? Is there any program that would help me with this?Edit: Also, I would like to put shadows on it, but how do you do it? I'm new to creating stages.
Is it a flat image? like did you type mountain into google image search and try to make a stage out of it? cuz those make shitty stages as you said yourself just asking because it is a little hard to tell from the pic. I believe the original format of the image plays a part in the final quality. also breaking it up into smaller images may help.good luck with your stages just don't use real world images for them because well yea...
You can use Corel Paint Shop Pro to decrease color depth and save. You can do it with other image editing programs, but that's the only one I use.Image > Decrease Color Depth > 256 Color paletteIf the image quality degrades too much, you can split the images into different sections and give them each their own unique palette.A stage def file has a [Shadow] section for defining the shadow (just check stage0.def).
if you are psp/photoshop savvy, just split it in the 3 rgb components, that way you will get three images witha 256 colors palette, then in the .def file add one right over the other with additive transparency.
DavidGee said, November 03, 2007, 02:21:18 pmYou can use Corel Paint Shop Pro to decrease color depth and save. You can do it with other image editing programs, but that's the only one I use.Image > Decrease Color Depth > 256 Color paletteIf the image quality degrades too much, you can split the images into different sections and give them each their own unique palette.A stage def file has a [Shadow] section for defining the shadow (just check stage0.def).i used decreased color depth then after that the backround quality was to cut 50% from original 100%.is there a way to maintain the the 100% image after decreasing the quality.
DavidGee said, November 03, 2007, 02:21:18 pmYou can use Corel Paint Shop Pro to decrease color depth and save. You can do it with other image editing programs, but that's the only one I use.Image > Decrease Color Depth > 256 Color paletteIf the image quality degrades too much, you can split the images into different sections and give them each their own unique palette.A stage def file has a [Shadow] section for defining the shadow (just check stage0.def).Any way to do that with GIMP? I need a step by step process, because I am new to gimp, and Gimp was free (unlike paint shop pro or CS3)
search for info on how to split to rgb channels/layers, then save each layer as a separate 256 colors image. after that use additive transparency in the stage's .def file.
