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susanb
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by susanb » Sun May 15, 2005 2:45 pm
Where would I find instructions to make a old style vga background. Like the one from Gabriel Knight 1, or larry vga games. (5, 6 and 1vga)
Does anyone know of a site, or know how to yourselfs (and yes, I know about the forest tutortial site). If you have any of the games I've mentioned, you'll see what I mean when I say it looks different to the newer games designed with photoshop.
Please help.
Thanks
Susan
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Klytos
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by Klytos » Mon May 16, 2005 3:59 am
Those old-style backgrounds were usually hand-painted then scanned in. That's why the newer ones like the AGD's use are have a "crisper" feel to them. If that makes sense. :lol I don't know about whether there are tutorials for painting around.
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susanb
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by susanb » Mon May 16, 2005 11:55 am
But if it's painted and then scanned, why are the pics so pixelated. Oh well, doesn't matter. If what you say is true, I'm out of luck.
Thanks anyway
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by adeyke » Mon May 16, 2005 3:13 pm
Anything will look pixelated if you resize it to 320x200 and then look at it in full-screen mode.
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Alias
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by Alias » Tue May 17, 2005 9:57 am
Its also so pixelated because they would require true colour to be able to see all the colours, they only had 8 bit.
