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Poetic Stanziel
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Posted - 2012.06.29 04:22:00 -
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from http://poeticstanziel.blogspot.ca/2012/06/greenscreening-coming-to-eve-online.html
(image) http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hD0PXbo_SLk/T-0nIjAYvfI/AAAAAAAABnA/dZUeE_o0oGE/s320/greenscreen_character.jpg
I've played around with putting our characters onto different backgrounds, but the job of removing existing backgrounds can be a little onerous, especially with my middling Photoshop skills. I've wished, for awhile now, that we had the option to put our characters onto a solid background, green preferably.
Yesterday, I decided to use the power of Twitter and ask if it was possible.
The answer came within the hour from Erlendur, CCP Karkur, and Torfi Frans Olafsson.
And not twenty-four hours later, CCP Karkur demoed a mock-up, the image above. So, I'm excited to think that this may become a reality in a patch or update in the near future.
(image) http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JaHTq41YnO8/T-0qw0WTIQI/AAAAAAAABnU/HYi1giI8XA8/s320/greenscreen_character_beach.jpg
[This took all of 4 minutes with the new green background. Only a few pixels to manually edit, rather than hundreds.]
I have middle of the road Photoshop skills. I would expect that those folks with great Photoshop skills will find greenscreening much more useful. It would probably ease the process of step-by-step animating their characters into scenes.
I know this is just a small example, and that it isn't related to internet spaceships, but continually impressed since September 2011: CCP's willingness to listen and respond to its players quickly and efficiently.
I'd like to thank Erlendur, CCP Karkur and Torfi for the positive response to my suggestion, and the quick turn around on something fleshed out. I look forward to seeing it in game. I look forward to seeing how the more graphically inclined utilize greenscreening.
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Poetic Stanziel
Autocannons Anonymous
Late Night Alliance
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Posted - 2012.06.29 04:35:00 -
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Natsett Amuinn wrote:Can do this in photoshop in just a few seconds. Wouldn't help me any, but would be usefull for people who aren't that familliar with PS. I find some of the gradient backgrounds don't remove cleanly, leaving artifacts at the character edges. Maybe I'm missing some extra option that allows Photoshop to go a step further. Either way, a solid "greenscreen" background should be beneficial to all, novice and pro.
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Poetic Stanziel
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Posted - 2012.06.29 22:17:00 -
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Natsett Amuinn wrote:I apologize to the OP if I came across as "pathetic" or being a douche. Arts been my life for the past 30 years. I'm all about people being creative and anything anyone can do that allows more people to be creative, I say go for.
I didn't take offense. Obviously you're really adept at Photoshop and do things in a way that works best and quickest for you. I, personally, would really benefit with a chroma key (did I use that correctly, Morganta?) background.
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Poetic Stanziel
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Posted - 2012.07.04 22:48:00 -
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CCP karkur wrote:Chribba wrote:We just need to make sure this is also implemented in the character viewer in-game. So that we can do nice group stuff with various characters.
/c If someone would implement this, would you want the shadow on the floor gone too?
No shadow, would probably be best. It is easy enough to generate a fake shadow, if we need it, on our own backgrounds.
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Poetic Stanziel
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Posted - 2012.07.05 22:55:00 -
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Morganta wrote:really though people, chromakey (eg: bluescreen greenscreen) is a technology more conducive to video, not still images.
its fishing with dynamite, you learn a lot and its fun, but its way overkill for what you are trying to accomplish.
rototools and magic wands are a much better and less intensive route than trying to key a static image.
not saying it wont work, but do you jack up your car with a jack or a construction crane when you have a flat? You, sir, are a negative nancy.
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Poetic Stanziel
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Posted - 2012.07.13 17:48:00 -
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Greenscreening has made it to Sisi. Barring any bugs, it should be in the Late Summer update.
Woot!
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Poetic Stanziel
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Posted - 2012.07.15 19:01:00 -
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CCP karkur wrote:I think this is on Sisi now (I'm on vacation so I don't really know what's going on  , but based on the discussion on new features in the Test section I'm guessing we have the new stuff on Sisi )
Yep. http://poeticstanziel.blogspot.ca/2012/07/greenscreening-on-sisi.html
And a big thanks to you for getting it done so quickly. And to those that gave you the development time to do it.
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