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[Battlemapsta]

Better with mook lol. Nice icons everyone except DDRtists who had made it crazy. Lol jk.

 

[lascha]

nice one whitesock but i think you shouldn't have made the fire dark, it should "shine" more ;P

anyway, what does innate actually mean? :O

 

[lascha]

aha, so thats only for custom heroes ^_^

 

[Whitesock]

...it should "shine" more ;P

That's my problem! I can't get a good shine on fire, otherwise it looks too smooth.

EDIT: Example...

...see...

 

[Pwnages]

in wut kinda format it needs to be? blp, bmp doc, gif, htm, jpe, jpeg, jpg, mdl, mdx, pdf, png, psd, tga, txt, w3g, w3m, w3n, w3o, w3x, wtg, zip,?

 

[Whitesock]

It has to be convertable to .blp.

EDIT: By the way, does anyone know a file that can contain transparency (alpha channel)?

 

[Pwnages]

this is my icon i did in like 10 min, enjoy. it is TGA but you can Convert it in BLP if you want, dun have Image Extrator

 

[Monovertex]

it has to be JPG or TGA

 

[Whitesock]

How does everyone make fire so good!?

 

[Evan1993]

I would add my crappy ones to the contest if I had had made more then 3...

I cant make fire good either.

These are the only ones I make then I gave up

 

[DDRtists]

You moroon...

I have horrible icon making skills xD

 

[Jo.O]

How does everyone make fire so good!?

I could post you a 1 minute tutorial if you want
Atleast if you are using photoshop.

Here ya go:

Making simple fire in photoshop.

Make a new document, about 400x400px, Black background.
Reset your colors (ctrl+D) and go to: Filter - Render - Clouds.
After that go to Filter - Render - Difference Clouds, and repeat the difference clouds a few times. (ctrl+F)

After that take the Brush tool and fill some of the top with black color, so that it looks like the fire ends (looks better if it goes op a bit in the middle

The go to Filter - Liquify using a size 15 brush, with 50-60 density, 100 brush pressure. Fix it and make it look more "firey".

And last: Go to Image - Adjustments - Gradient Map. It should look like this:

Good Luck​

 

[Whitesock]

Try using smudge for fire, by the way I think I finally made an OK fire ( ).

There's also selection tools and you can select a square, and then cut off that part of selection to make a shield.

Also, here's my acually OK fire (never saw that coming did you! )...
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I didn't think I could make fire that good...

EDIT: I'd like the tutorial, even if I don't use photoshop. It would help others too. The GIMP has almost all the filters and add-ons that photoshop has, It just doesn't have all of em.

 

[Monovertex]

EDIT: I dont my other formats too, as long as I can open them But if Smith wants tga or blp, you can make them for him. Hope the smith doesnt get too angry with me about this

I want them in those formats cuz it's easier to convert them to blp. (as i know, TGA and JPG are the only ones which can be converted into blp's)

 

[Whitesock]

Wc3 viewer can also convert bmp's to blp's by the way.

I tried to salvage that bolt spell. Not much better, but I only used 5 min to do it...

EDIT: Wow, the GIMP has all of those, just under different names. Thanks!

 

[Monovertex]

Yeah, I forgot about the bmp. BTW, any icon you put here does not count in the contest.

BTW, nice tut, J. But I preffer to make the fire manually, using lots of layers. The result looks more real. The way you used there gives you a too "computerized" fire.

 

[Whitesock]

Well, here's a quick fire on the GIMP using that tutorial. I think I need to do my own redering on the clouds, but that gradient map is exactly what I need! Thanks again!

 

[Jo.O]

BTW, nice tut, J. But I preffer to make the fire manually, using lots of layers. The result looks more real. The way you used there gives you a too "computerized" fire.

Yeah, but I said One minute tutorial, Snoop

 

[Monovertex]

Ok, Pac.

EDIT: I just took a look in the dictionary, to see what "snoop" means. rofl.

BTW, look at the views of this thread O.O

 

[Whitesock]

I just found the animators on THE GIMP ( can you tell? )!