I'm wondering how people create graphics for the difficulty ranks on the title screen of their pack.
Quote from: Shmolem on May 05, 2019, 06:12:03 PM
I'm wondering how people create graphics for the difficulty ranks on the title screen of their pack.
For that I would recommend looking into the
levels folder of NeoLemmix and take a look on how packs with those mentioned signs are structured. Also take a look at the graphics dimensions!
After creating the nessesary graphics mimic those packs and you should be good to go.
Your 2 options of puting the pack together are: Using the packtoolkit that comes with NeoLemmix, or mimic the other packs and creating the nessesary stuff by hand (a bit more advanced though).
Each pack in the new format has a folder in the levels folder, inside this folder there is a folder for each rank inside the pack.
You can use MS Paint and make a 73x28 image if you just want the graphic size for the default title screen.
Simply save this image as "rank_graphic" inside the corresponding rank folder.
I'm creating those with an ancient version of Adobe Photoshop (7.0). That way I find it easer to layer things on top of each other, add drop-shadows or outlines, make layers invisible again etc. Don't know to what extent such things can be done with a modern version of Paint.
QuoteSimply save this image as "rank_graphic" inside the corresponding rank folder.
It needs to specifically be "rank_graphic.png". (Eg. "rank_bitmap.bmp", which Paint would default to, won't work.)
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I'm creating those with an ancient version of Adobe Photoshop (7.0). That way I find it easer to layer things on top of each other, add drop-shadows or outlines, make layers invisible again etc. Don't know to what extent such things can be done with a modern version of Paint.
As far as I know, even the newest version of Paint doesn't have layer support. However, Paint.NET (http://getpaint.net/) is free, very simple (compared to Photoshop or GIMP), and supports layers. It's what I use for all my Lemmings graphics work.
Created the Learning graphic! I just did it on this app called 3d paint on windows 10. Next is Simple