Tutorial: Making sail emblems & flags

Black Sam Cash · Powder Monkey Posts: 48 **363 Gold** -

Thanks for the tutorial, Wolf.
I'd like to add that Microsoft Paint and IrfanView work very well and are absolutely free and extremely easy to use.
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Black Sam Cash · Powder Monkey Posts: 48 **363 Gold** -

Jon Lu Ta · Seaman Posts: 149 **3465 Gold** -

Thanks for the help, I had a minor issue with one of emblems and that s it. New wife in sight! Plot a course!

Cp. Kain · Gunner Posts: 528 **4815 Gold** -

- May sound a bit stupid...
- Be it possible to make all the sails black? Or no...Be it possible to make emblem for all the sails?
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Black Sam Cash · Powder Monkey Posts: 48 **363 Gold** -

Plaguerat Johnny · Powder Monkey Posts: 15 **19 Gold** -

Thank you so much for the tutorial. I had been making emblems before, but the surround sail texture was always affected. Thanks to this tutorial I finally have my assorted emblems(among them some very nice swedish royal coats of arms). So thank you once again and good luck with your continued pirating. Smile

Wolfwood · Boatswain Posts: 2484 **33917 Gold** -

Happy to hear that the tutorial is still useful! Smile

And happy to hear that there are some neighbours on the forums! (I take it that you are from Sweden?)
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Chiko · Swabbie Posts: 124 **273 Gold** -

The flags and sails tutorial is great!
I thought flag and emblems creation were difficult but now I've made some and it's very easy! Smile

Wolfwood · Boatswain Posts: 2484 **33917 Gold** -

Good to hear! Smile

Yup, I thought it might be difficult as well, before I tried it for the first time. I read some tutorials to learn in, but all of them seemed to gloss over this area or that, so I decided to make one that would make each step clear.
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It is much better to be armed with a sword that has two edges than with an estoc [...], which is nothing more than a stick with a point. (Rapier Master G. Morsicato Pallavicini, La Scherma Illustrata, p. 14.)

Chiko · Swabbie Posts: 124 **273 Gold** -

Arrrr!!! this was one of the first ones I created Smile

now I'm lookin more images from Internet so I can make more!

Thawed Out · Powder Monkey Posts: 1 **18 Gold** -

The issue with Sails and Flags being completely black is due to not saving the image with mip-maps enabled... many don't use them as they image get seriously blurred unless the right filters are being used.. my preference is to use the "sinc" filter in DXTBmp.... I accidentally did this and saw them as black, and went back and looked, and fixed it, and now all is fine....

mark s selley · Swabbie Posts: 63 **57 Gold** -

......said forbidden 403..........?????????????????
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Ultraxwing · Powder Monkey Posts: 11 **174 Gold** -

nice tutorial i was readin i downloaded that paint shop pro then i noticed my paint program to do that and no trial but what strikes me is that how do i change physcle appearance on my main you bound to know i just cant convert my fpk files to bmp files so it is hard and i dont know how.

Wolfwood · Boatswain Posts: 2484 **33917 Gold** -

If anyone happens to have a copy of the final version of the tutorial mentioned in the first message in this thread, I'd appreciate to have a copy of it... It appears that I lost my only local copy at some point and then the one online when my university account closed some years ago.

So, if anyone actually still possesses it, send me a copy!

@hookedgamers.com is the ending of the address, of course.
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It is much better to be armed with a sword that has two edges than with an estoc [...], which is nothing more than a stick with a point. (Rapier Master G. Morsicato Pallavicini, La Scherma Illustrata, p. 14.)