Janskeet said:Darth Lars said:Janskeet said:Davnes007 said:
Now doesn't that look sweet?
This would require the Death Star to rotate so that the window will be facing the battle later.
When it rotates, the lighting on the window frame should change. I think that would be very difficult to do.
You guys don't seem too enthusiastic about this idea. I think it would be great for ROTJ: R. But it is a long ways away. I wish I had Adywan's or Vaderio's, or this dude Davnes007's, skills. I would start whipping out my own ROTJ: R right now. Davnes007, could you tell me how you made this image?
Well, trust me, it's not as hard as it looks...it's just takes time.
(I think these steps should work the same in Paintshop and Photoshop, and other such apps. . I use Paintshop).
1. Copy-n-paste the Emperor frame you want to fiddle with.
2. Promote that layer so it's not a 'Background' layer.
3. Use the cut-out tool ('freehand selection', or 'lasso').
4. Take your time, and cut-out all the windows. (OMG, that's a pain in the butt! That's why some of the window frames look weird.)
5. Copy-n-paste a planet picture that you think will look right, and make sure its layer is under the 'Emperor' layer. (I used a frame from when Wedge shot out the DSII, and turned it 90 degrees, and enlarged it a bit.)
6. If you need to, copy-n-paste a starry background, and make sure its layer is under the other two layers.
That's all I really did, for that picture anyway. The main trick is to be able to work with the layers properly, so that the transparent areas (of the Emperor pic) let the other layer(s) show through.