Paintshop question

[hogleg]

How are these pics done?
http://www.planetmedalofhonor.com/vg/prefabs.html

A transition from textures to wireframe.
Like in MJ's logo.

[Cheetohs]

Hmm.. you could take a screenshot of the solid piece, take a screenshot of the wireframe piece, open up Photoshop and have each screenshot on a different layer... than fade/blend the layers at the desired point. I'm not sure if that's how they do it, but that is how i would do it.

[hogleg]

ya I thought of that but thought there might be a easier way.

[Mj]

I cheated slightly...

Took two screens from same place blah blah, and made the showtris one into a pattern for the brush (like a paintable on texture... put it in the patterns folder id psp8 files, i did) And just applied it as if it were... red paint

And it kinda worked....

[Cheetohs]

interesting way of doing it.. very creative.. but hey, it got the job done!

[hogleg]

How do you get a wireframe view?
I couldn't find a showtris option.
I saw show patches as wireframe....and render quality/wireframe???

[Mj]

r_showtris 2, but ya have to enable cheats

[jv_map]

In the game not in radiant radiant doesn't like cheaters

[hogleg]

Thx, I'll give it a try.

[Jack Ruby]

I can do this technique in a few seconds with photoshop,

I would use a layer mask, it kinda works the same as a targa alpha channel, have both images on seperate layers, then add a layer mask to the top layer, then fill the mask with a black to white gradient, it would blend the layers perfectly.

You can find the add layer mask button at the bottom of your layers palette, a circle inside a rectangle, or just hover over the buttons for a pop out description.

im sure its a very similar process for paintshop.

edit: to paint your gradient on the mask you will see in your layers pallete the layer you want to edit, theres a thumbnail on the left and on the right will be a white or black rectangle, you need to click this rectangle to activate the mask, then paint your gradient on it.

[hogleg]

I emailed the guy who made those pics and he said he did it alot like Cheetos said he did. He said he used a blend tool at the transition point or was it a fade tool... anyway Ive got a good idea how to do it now.

thx ya'll