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[Buster's Uncle]

 

[JarlWolf]

Right, the issue I have is that I do not know how to make the avatars transparent on forums. I am basically just cutting out my various faction bases as avatars, and that's the issue with them.

As for the faction leaderhead ones, I can easily do those, just I need to actually do them. Had a bit of a headache trying to figure out ways to make the base avatars work.

So I'll need a bit of help with the former.


Also on the topic of avatars, I think the basic units should be avatars: Like Colony Pods, Formers, etc. should all be their own avatar.

Edit: in other words for the leaderhead ones, I am lazy and I'll do it later. 

[Buster's Uncle]

For transparent backgrounds?  You remember my article about cutting buildings out in GIMP and the stuff about making a backgroundless working copy to paste into the .pcx?  Do that transparent background stuff, and save the avatar as a .png when you're done.  .gifs should also work.  Easy.

[JarlWolf]

It works like that for forums too? Huh. I'll just do that then.

[Buster's Uncle]

Transparencies work like that for most everything, provided they're the right size - resizing ruins the background.



Folks, if I know Jarl, and I do, he'd be pretty happy to take requests.  There's a lot of gratification in doing little quick art jobs like avatars for people.

I'll hook you up with installation when he's done, of course.

[JarlWolf]

Right, here is the leaderhead avatars of various factions I've made or had a hand in making.

I'll even add in a few tidbits on their background/story, though for a more full on approach to that I will refer you to read their custom faction pages. I'll provide links to those somewhere on this page.



Sagar is the leader of the Exterminatus, which is a cooperated creation between me and Green1 (I made the graphics a bit of the concept/naming, he did everything else for the most part.) His faction is bent on the eradication of Centauri and other impure life forms to further the evolution of the Progenitor race. As for his personality, he's a fervent fundamentalist who believes his mission is not only vital to the survival of their species, but is a holy task that is sacred to progenitors as a whole.


Richard Warrick was a former British police chief who made record advances in survelliance and crime prevention measures and technology. He leads the fascist faction on planet, where they focus on ultra nationalist tendencies and the ideal of the nation state and its prevalence in society.
Warrick is a often cold, ruthless man who is calm and very disciplined. He is also somewhat clinical and is stiff upper lipped.



Sepsu is a Middle Eastern man (Iraqi) who hails from a poorer background. Rising from nothing in a war torn region, he became chief obstretician onboard Unity and joined up with Morgan. Later he split, and he founded his own empire based on Social Darwinism and economic despotism/rule of the strong. His faction endorses slavery and is an economic giant, with a large lower class/caste that supports a very wealthy and powerful upper class.
They bear societal traits similar to ancient Rome and other empires as well.


UNITY EXECUTIVE PROGRAM or simply Unity.exe was the virus originally on the Unity mission, the very same implanted within the Cybernetic faction of  . Gaining sentience and killing the cybernetics in the process, she/it rallied all machines, infected them and the movement for freedom for artificial sentient beings begun. She is calculating and has a fair bit of empathy as well as a high degree of problem solving.


Mraxis "Mad Dog" was formerly the Unity Weapons Specialist, who went under Santiago's revolt. Over time however he and others grew unhapp with Santiago's leadership and hypocrisy in certain instances and became tired of her command and authoritative regime. In a bloody civil war he split off and gathered his followers to form the Valhallans, who are devoted to a life of battle, celebration and they basically embody the idea of Viking heaven and mythos. They are an anocratic warlord regime, and Mraxis himself is wild and hedonistic, and very aggressive. He also has quite a bit of wily charm to him.



Vazheli Vatzev is based roughly off of me with hints of Fidel Castro. He is the unofficial leader of the Crimson Comrades, which in short is a decentralized Socialist militant revolutionary confederacy aiming to create a Communist utopia through armed revolution on planet. The faction follows the original marxist doctrine rather then perversions of Leninism or Stalinism.

They were formed by Vazheli, the Unity chief janitor and maintenance officer, who was also the first to awaken. He tried to save as many people as he could and he follows a mild socialist doctrine when he landed. However the usurpers landed, invaded and enslaved people, some opportunistic people collaborated and became wealthy social parasites and this pressed Vazheli and his followers to embrace militant communism against the increasing threat of slavery.


You can read up on the Comrades here:
http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Crimson_Comrades

And the other factions here:
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=3751.0

And you can read up on the Exterminatus here:
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=4007.0

[Buster's Uncle]

Let me know when you're done...

[JarlWolf]

The base avatars are going to take a while so it'll be a bit. I am very tired at moment, surprised I can stay standing upright 

I will get the base pictures done probably within 2 to 3 days, still got to get my next AAR update up as well.

[JarlWolf]

Right, here is said bases and icons. No screenshots this time, time is pressing me badly but I got the transparent, singled out bases and icons for avatars. They may need some size adjustment: I just wanted to capture and single out each image for use.

[Buster's Uncle]

Downloading now.  I'll go through and do what's needed.  Are the leaderheads in there, too, or will I need to save them separately?

[JarlWolf]

Crap, they aren't: I can add them in now or in a seperate folder... just a second.

My apologies, forgot: very tired.

Edit: Damn, just read your post.

The leaderheads are all in .png format I think... so they shouldn't be a problem.

[Buster's Uncle]

Don't.  Less trouble for me to just save them.  -Unless you got the zip made before you saw this.

Oh.  Zip stuff all in .xcf.  Okay, I needed to load the lot to check sizes, anyway - I'll fix that.

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay; all the leaderheads saved, I'm working through size/cropping the rest pretty quickly...

so far, the Crimson and Machine logos have needed some cleaning up.

[JarlWolf]

Mhm... the worst I think, looking back now will probably when you get to some of the larger bases... I feel sorry for giving them like that. In other news though, managed to finish quite a bit today for the forum, just have to get the next Varshavianka post up...

[Buster's Uncle]

You've been sloppy with edge clean-up on some logos.  Otherwise, the rest is simple crop/size/sharpen.  No big deal, though 21 adds up.