How should I make in game thumbnails?

Discussion in 'Content Creation' started by John Beat, Jun 10, 2016.

  1. John Beat

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    For most of the time I've been stealing in-game originals but they don't match well on some of my newer projects so I would now start trying to make my mods looking more professional and this looks like a good start.
     
  2. SixSixSevenSeven

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    well if you've been nicking original thumbnails, you should know its just a .png named the same as your config. So just take a screenshot in png, resize it to the same size as default thumbnails and tada
     
  3. John Beat

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    Still I kinda would like a black outline with a professional look I've seen it be done so I know it's possible.
     
  4. SixSixSevenSeven

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    then edit your screenshot in photoshop or something
     
  5. John Beat

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    Poo I have nothing similar to photoshop... Thats Real poo
     
  6. SixSixSevenSeven

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    paint.net, gimp, tweaked postfx settings, even MS paint opens PNG
     
  7. meywue

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    There are plenty of free alternatives out there:

    For example gimp:

    1. Open you picture with gimp
    2. Put your car/selection/whatever on a new layer
    3. Rightclick on that layer and choose 'alpha to selection'
    4. Rightclikc on the new created selection adn choose 'Edit - Stroke Selection'
    5. Choose your color in the toolbox and click on 'stroke'
     
  8. John Beat

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    Hooray Useful info
     
  9. nobadesuuchan

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    Oh...... my......
     
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  10. MRcrash

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    Why editing? Just go to dm showroom or something similar and take a screenshot with 15 fov. Then open it with any picture editor, resize and crop it to 250x120 pixels. I do that with my mod and it looks nice.
    3m_cultivator.png
     
  11. meywue

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    Actually the thumbnails should have a size of 400px x 192px ;)
     
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  12. mumboking

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    It is the same aspect ratio though...
     
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