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music problem... by Mikee
Yeah, i have a music problem I would to make that in that music folder of MM, but when I have made this and write the right number at the music and at the mansion, i hear not from the music. I don't know but it's a midi File. I had to try this in a mp3 file but i can't hear the music. And now what i must make?
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Re: music problem... by aquaMat
Mikee,MM can't handle MIDI files. You must put an AUDIO file (in mp3 format) into the Game Data > Music folder, assigned with the correct number and then everything will work just fine.
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Re: music problem... by Mikee
yeah aqua that i know! But I would that music make in the mansion but i can't its an midi File? I have asked and now what i must do to i can make this music in the mansion???
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Re: music problem... by aquaMat
I'm not sure I understand correctly what you're asking ?!Could you maybe repeat the question in German ?If you're asking how you could use the music even if it is a MIDI file, well, that is possible but I wouldn't recommend it.What you need to do:1. You need a MIDI-capable synthesizer (either as hardware or as a software synth application within your computer).2. You'll have that synthesizer play the MIDI file in question and3. Record the output as an audio file.4. The resulting audio file will most probably be in AIFF format, Stereo, 16 bit / 44,1 kHz... В which means you have to...5. Convert the AIFF audio into the mp3 format, using a good converter application such as Audacity etc.You see it's not that easy and I'm pretty sure it is not worth all the hassle, since most MIDI files sound really poor, as long as you do not use a high class synthesizer with good sounds.Why don't you use a music file that is already in mp3 format (and to which you have the rights, of course) ??
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Re: music problem... by Mikee
yeah, aqua i send you a PM for this of german... В
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Re: music problem... by aquaMat
Mikee,the question you sent me in German is indeed what I suspected it to be....so the answer is already above.DE: В Die Antwort steht schon in obigem Post von mir (in Englisch). Wenn Du willst, kann ich sie dir aber nochmal in Deutsch via PM senden !?
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Re: music problem... by Mikee
hmmm... I know aqua that Midi File not go in MM but how I can make that to a mp.3 File??? >
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Re: music problem... by aquaMat
Mikee,das habe ich doch oben schon beschrieben !!!Ich werde es Dir aber nochmal via PM in deutsch senden.
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Re: music problem... by Mikee
Ahh aqua В It's now all okay! I have make the sound now... on GarageBand. I have buy today iLife. iPhoto, iWeb, iDVD, iMovie and GarageBand. Yeah a nice CD В But the iMovie is doesn't work on my computer i have already an G4. But my dad have G5... В 8-)Mavbe i buy next time an mac mini or so... В
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Guess Who......... by joeb
Feeling much better all. Good enough to dust off a custom art mansion.Early January release.....Was going to be Search For Jack but since I still haven't come up with a good Jill, Jack is still in. Matt likes Sneaky Pathways but I started this as Frankie's Funhouse (Frankie Stein). We'll see.......Happy New Year folks....
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Re: Guess Who......... by joeb
add pics.......duh....... somebody remind me how to include the screen shots in a post please.Thanks,Joe B
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Re: Guess Who......... by joeb
never mind, that worked
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Re: Guess Who......... by joeb
again
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Re: Guess Who......... by joeb
last
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Re: Guess Who......... by Toybox
Welcome back, Joe and Matt And happy new year!(I really like those zapper beams btw.)
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Re: Guess Who......... by Mikee
WOW! Joeb,That's really a perfect Graphic! nice work! ;D
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Re: Guess Who......... by Semi-Native
Welcome back, Joe and Matt, we've missed you! You were sick? :oWow, your new mansion looks awesome, as usual. Can't wait. 8-)
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Re: Guess Who......... by joeb
Quote:You were sick?
Had some fairly significant surgical procedures performed. Good news is that things weren't quite as dire as at first thought to be. Suffice it to say I've recovered most of the way and my wife has let me use my computers again. Just not allowed to get upset.Anyway, thanks for the welcome back. Looking forward to finishing up my mansion backlog......Joe B
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Re: Guess Who......... by joeb
OK Folks, have just added the Treasure Rooms to Radeka and Matt and I will be playing today looking for JS, cheap deaths, ALTHOUGH, I will say this...Radeka is the hardest mansion we've put together so far. I've included LOTS of coinage so you should be able to make it through. It's chock full of "sneaky" things as Matt calls them (aka what others may call cheap deaths) but just about ALL of them involve spiders and WHERE THERE ARE WEBS THERE ARE SPIDERS, so they're not cheap deaths. You just need to pay attention. There is also a small snow mountain where it's possible to get whiteout. FYI, I'm SURE that purists out there will comment on the graphics so I'll say upfront I'll look at all the comments but I won't be drawn into that looks bad, mine is better thread.Sometime in the next 24 hours I am going to send the mansion off to Freddy and Brell for posting approval. Then I'll be doing some old mansion cleanup.Best of the New Year to all!!!!!!!!mattb & joebps Leon,There are lots of graphics in the file that you (or anyone for that matter) can use. I'm really pleased with the way the slime snakes, swamp bricks and swamp platforms came out.mj
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Re: Guess Who......... by Freddy
I am looking forward to my Jack's Radeka March composed and conducted by Joe & Matt Strauss! When you send your mansion to us, please give us a good, but small text to add on the downloadpage, with that spider-web-warning. Unless you made a BBB somewhere in the beginning of Radeka. Thx.
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Christmas backgrounds! by sam skelton
Here's half of my christmas present to everyone- some x-mas backgrounds! They're a snowy scene that includes a moon, snow on the ground, clouds, pure snow, and an inside as well. Well, here ya go! BTW- (this was made in photoshop if anyone asks)
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Background maker: Painter X by Wingy
I just got a trial version of Painter X (www.corel.com) is great for making backgrounds for Midnight Mansion. There's a free trial there.This image I painted in 3 minutes... If I put a bit more effort into it, then it would become a great background for Midnight Mansion.I first paint-bucketed the background dark blue, then did a few angled strokes of an oil brush with a slightly brighter blue to make that nice Midnight sky. The ground I used a green and a normal brush, and the trees on the ground where just dark-greenish-brown color. The stars where just white dots, just clicked with a normal brush at a reasonable size. The moon, was a nice detail. It was like doing the star, (just clicking once, not dragging, with a bigger brush) Then I got a smaller brush and drew the craters and stuff on the moon with a normal grey tone.Then I got this picture... took me 3 minutes.
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Re: Background maker: Painter X by Mikee
hey wingy, how i can download it painter X? :-[
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Re: Background maker: Painter X by Wingy
Uhh... I think you gotta make an account on the Corel website then you can download it. If you're having trouble, use google to translate the page.
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Custom graphic Help by Leon
In some of the mansions I have tried there are completely different graphic so I was wondering how you can make new graphics, can someone help me?
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Re: Custom graphic Help by brell
Start by looking at those things joeb has posted on this board.
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Re: Custom graphic Help by Mikee
When you have new Graphics on your mansion, you make the Medusa-heads new, right? В from Medusa to Grogon В 8-)
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Re: Custom graphic Help by Leon
[quote author=Mikee link=/0#2 date=] from Medusa to Grogon В 8-)[/quote]No, I just name them gorgons.
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Re: Custom graphic Help by Leon
I just downloaded joeb's graphics but i do not know how to use them, can someone help me?
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Re: Custom graphic Help by Freddy
The best person to help you is of course ... Joe.Now, yesterday we received the good news from Joe that he will be back within a few weeks. So the easiest way is to wait a little bit.
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Re: Custom graphic Help by joeb
WELL.............Maybe not a couple of weeks.How is everyone doing? I had some health hiccups but I'm back around now. I was going to wait awhile longer but I got such nice emails from everyone that I decided to make a quick stop in. I'll be stopping in occasionally for a month or so (PT will be taking some time) but I'll definitely will be back. Plus I still have 3 or 4 mansions to complete and get posted.Again, thanks for all the kind thoughts and I'm really looking forward to getting back into the MM community.Leon, like Freddy said, check out the thread in this forum area for the docs I put in here on graphics. After you read that feel free to post any further questions and I'll see if I can help out.Later guys В 8-) 8-)Joe B
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Re: Custom graphic Help by Mikee
[quote author=triforceguy1 link=1196530998/0#3 date=1196595485][quote author=Mikee link=/0#2 date=] from Medusa to Grogon 8-)[/quote]No, I just name them gorgons.[/quote]Okay.. В
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invisible bricks by Leon
Does anyone know how to use invisible bricks?
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Re: invisible bricks by Mikee
You can make invisible bricks on layer 0,5 and 6, I think, lol. On layer 6 you can make secrets, so you can make a option for this, you must only look at extras. Then you can make the Bricks are full or half or so xD maybe Brell or Freddy can better translate that...
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New Backgrounds!!! by Nick12
I created a new set of back grounds for custom mansion desingersThese backgrounds are slitghty to small but can still be used, new larger versions will be coming out
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Re: New Backgrounds!!! by aquaMat
Wow, thanks...That's mighty fine of you....
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Re: New Backgrounds!!! by Nick12
Your welcome, more backgrounds coming soon.
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Re: New Backgrounds!!! by Nick12
Here's another set of new backgrounds
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Re: New Backgrounds!!! by Wingy
That's mighty fine gradient work of yours... let me guess... you used one of the Following:Adobe PhotoShop CSFlash MX CSAdobe Illustrator CSPainter XOr you used some-unproffession painting program? I usually use Color It! Nice backgrounds. Might use them, sometimes.But the thing we really need... is new Characters! Artists, get your brushes!I've done my Ted charater, (Look at my Avatar) and Joeb has done his nice JAC and in that StarCraft thing I made I used a effect in Photoshop to put a force-feild around Jack so he could survive in space. If only we had some crazy-good artist who could make us some more charaters...*Idea* Or... we could all bribe Jacob (the artist of MM) to make us some more charaters! : ;D
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Re: New Backgrounds!!! by Nick12
Quote:[quote author=Wingy link=1188942050/0#4 date=1189191572]That's mighty fine gradient work of yours... let me guess... you used one of the Following:Adobe PhotoShop CSFlash MX CSAdobe Illustrator CSPainter X
Nope, I used a free .app called LiveQuartz
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Re: New Backgrounds!!! by Nick12
Here's yet another new set of backgrounds.
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Re: New Backgrounds!!! by Nick12
Download all backgrounds here.
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Re: New Backgrounds!!! by Wingy
Hmm... I see you dragged the icon from the custom mansions into some of the backgrounds. I see you wanted people to use this in the opening part or intro of the mansion, and you're looking at the mansion in the distance. If I where you, I'd go around the edges of the mansion icon and get rid of the white transparent stuff before you added it to the picture. It would look abit nicer. But it's fine anyways. Notice: If I remember correctly, the backgrounds will tile if it's too small! A standard background should be at least 640x432. That's the size of the built-in backgrounds.I tried that application you used. It's nice! It's a perfect coloring program. If you want to do more complex backgrounds like Joeb's dominator with that nice-3d stuff on the moon, you should get the nice, (now free) Bryce 5. There's a tread with the address to where you download it somewhere in the Art area.I usually use gradients that have colors from a darker blue to a light blue for my backgrounds. I use Color It! 3.0 for that.WingyP.S. Love that half water/half sky effect.
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Re: New Backgrounds!!! by Nick12
[quote author=Wingy link=1188942050/0#8 date=1189284589]If I remember correctly, the backgrounds will tile if it's too small! A standard background should be at least 640x432. That's the size of the built-in backgrounds.[/quote]I know I just forgot. New versions will be out soon with thhat problem corrected.
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Re: New Backgrounds!!! by Nick12
[quote author=Wingy link=1188942050/0#8 date=1189284589]If you want to do more complex backgrounds like Joeb's dominator with that nice-3d stuff on the moon, you should get the nice, (now free) Bryce 5. There's a tread with the address to where you download it somewhere in the Art area.[/quote]I couldn't find Bryce 5 or 5.5 free anywere.If you know a place that has it for free please tell me.
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FREE SOFTWARE by joeb
All,Remember I said that you could get really great software at a great price at certain times?Well this is one of those times...www.daz3d.comDAZ is GIVING away Bryce 5.5 for FREE. You can upgrade to the full version of 6 for $19.95Just an FYI.....Joe B
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Re: FREE SOFTWARE by ryos
Dang, that's awesome. My Bryce was stuck at version 3, which didn't even really run under Classic (wireframe drawing was unusably slow). This makes me happy if only for nostalgic reasons. I'm downloading as we speak.Too bad I don't really have time for that sort of thing these days. Should still be fun to give it another whirl and see if some of my old scenes still open and render properly.
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Re: FREE SOFTWARE by brell
Joe, could you give us a short description on the difference between Bryce and DAZStudio? В Which one would we use to create background pics?
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Re: FREE SOFTWARE by Wingy
Wow, thats a deal. My brother bought Bryce 5.0 for $200 afew years ago! :o
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Re: FREE SOFTWARE by ryos
I registered yesterday and they still haven't sent me a serial number. Can't really complain since it's free, but still...
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Re: FREE SOFTWARE by joeb
Bryce vs DAZ.......Think of DAZ as the actors guild and Bryce as the set designers.You can use things from DAZ in Bryce (actually the interface between the 2 has been VASTLY simplified) and visa versa but what they do best is what I describe above.For instance in GH the opening "room" has the castle in the mountains (the new version of Bryce actually uses that castle on the box cover and splash screen). The castle is from DAZ (Shroom Castle). I played around with elements of Shroom in DAZ until I got it correct and got the lighting figured out. I exported it as an object file with all the scene elements (lights, textures, etc.)In Bryce I designed the mountains from scratch using the Terrain Editor until I got what I felt was a good place for the castle to sit. I played with the atmospherics (fog, haze, ambient lighting, sun position) until I got it the way I wanted it.Then I imported the castle object, scaled it and placed it where I wanted. I then moved the camera around to get all the scenes (including the ones where the castle isn't visible) and saved them as jpegs. What's cool about this method is that the scenes are consistent as you "move" around and up Ghost Mountain because you're really IN the scene.I then did post work in Photoshop using the Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Nature filters, Smoke (add depth to the fog) and Snow Drift for the snow. I used the Alien Skin Xenofex 2 filters, Cracks (for the lava channels down the mountain), Little Fluffy Clouds for the clouds.Phew.......But I have gotten a TON of positive comments on the GH backgrounds and they really speak for taking a little extra time to setup. If anyone is interested I have the source files, Bryce, DAZ and Photoshop laying around if you're interested (email me). As I mentioned the Bryce promotion was well worth the time to register at DAZ and DAZ Studio has ALWAYS been free. DAZ also has weekly free objects. Bryce and DAZ are not tools that you just go into and use right away without taking time to use them but they are POWERFUL! There is a HUGE forum that you can get to from DAZ that has links to lots of free content and you can get questions answered quickly. AND there are a bunch of free tutorials. My forum ID is joeb3651And you can always email me......HTH,Joe B
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Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
As promised here is the first tile set from M&J Mansions. This one is from the Mummy's Revenge mansion. I'm still working on the Dummy's Guide to Custom Graphics but I'm also trying to clean up and archive all my MM artwork which at this time is scattered all over my Mac.These are the easily replaceable graphics and I've left out some of the more difficult ones until I can explain how they work in DGCG. In the meantime please feel free to look at these and use them if you wish. Happy FLW to all,Matt & Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Semi-Native
Thank you, Joe & Matt, this is very generous of you. 8-)
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
Can we operate with this Tools? В That would be genuinly cool... If, how it goes? В
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Psychotronic
[quote author=Mikee link=1174710906/0#2 date=1174741930]Can we operate with this Tools? В That would be genuinly cool... If, how it goes? В [/quote]*Joe explodes*
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
[quote author=Psychotronic link=1174710906/0#3 date=1174754876][quote author=Mikee link=1174710906/0#2 date=1174741930]Can we operate with this Tools? That would be genuinly cool... If, how it goes? [/quote]*Joe explodes*[/quote]LOL? В [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]Why?
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by brell
[quote author=Mikee link=1174710906/0#4 date=1174758694][quote author=Psychotronic link=1174710906/0#3 date=1174754876][quote author=Mikee link=1174710906/0#2 date=1174741930]Can we operate with this Tools? That would be genuinly cool... If, how it goes? [/quote]*Joe explodes*[/quote]LOL? [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]Why?[/quote]Because:a) Yes, we can operate the "tool", that is why Joe is posting it,b) Joe has already posted a manual about custom graphics and in the manual that comes with the mansion builder there is a section on custom graphics.
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
[smiley=tekst-toppie.gif]ok.
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
I'm making custom graphics and fell upon something....... В When you're doing the hand for the intro (the zombie pointer) or even a snake, how do you get rid of that annoying white outline??? I tried light blue background and I tried erasing the white space around it... How do you get rid of that? :-? :-?
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
Quote:how do you get rid of that annoying white outline???
WOW! My favorite subject. I can't think of the number of times I've been asked this question so I'm going to launch into what will probably be a LONG but detailed explanation.If you have Photoshop it's easier to do and I'll describe it as if you do have Photoshop. If you don't have PS let me know what you do have and I'll see if I can write something up for that app. As you go thru my description below you should make sure that you have the Info window open. If it's not open you can use the F8 key to open it or open it from the Window menu. What we'll be looking at are the values next to the R,G and B. Each of these values shows how much of Red, Green and Blue is in the pixel under the tip of the tool. These values will range from zero to 255.Prepare the graphic by flattening the image. This is important because if you have more than one layer in the document you could be selecting on the wrong layer. To flatten the image you go to the Layer menu and near the bottom you'll see Flatten Image. If it's grayed out then there is only one layer and you can continue.Near the bottom of the Tool palette are the Foreground and Background color boxes. To the left and below are a little black box over the top corner of a little white box. Click on that and the bigger boxes should change to black and white just like the little boxes. What you've done is make sure that the foreground color is Black or 0,0,0. More importantly for what we're doing you've made the background color pure white or 255,255,255.In the tool palette select the second tool from the top on the right hand side. It looks like a stick with a sparkle on top of it. It's called the magic wand. Clicking anywhere in the graphic will select all of the pixels in the image that are the same color, or almost the same color as I'll explain next.When you select the magic wand the toolbar below the menubar has a box that says Tolerance. (The Contiguous should be NOT checked. I'll explain that later) This means how pixels close to the color you clicked on with the magic wand will be selected. HUH!!!! If you put zero in that box then the only color that will be selected is the one you clicked on. Lets say that the pixel you clicked on is pure Red (255,0,0). Any pixel anywhere in the image that is pure Red will also be selected. If you type 8 in the tolerence box now if you click on that same pixel you'll get a range of pixels; Red can have a value of 255 - 247, Blue can have a value 8 - 0, and Green can be 8 - 0.So back to our problem. In the case of the hand MM is saying OK anything I see that is white (255,255,255) is going to be transparent. But why do you have a "white" outline? Because what you think is white ISN'T! If you go into the graphic you're having problems with, set the tolerance to zero and find a true white pixel (255,255,255) and click on it with the magic wand you're going to see an outline around your graphic that looks like it's white but if you move the wand over the pixels you think are white you're going to see RGB values that are not ALL 255. MM says not 255,255,255 then I don't make it transparent and you see it as white but it's not.So how do we get rid of the almost white pixels. Remember the Tolerance box, put a value of 16 in there. Unselect everything by typing CMD-D or choose Deselect in the Select menu. Now click on that same white pixel and now you see that more of the "white" pixels are selected. Keep changing the tolerance until you get to the point where you're within a pixel or two of the graphic (or you're at the exact edge you want to be). Now if you haven't changed the foreground/background colors you can type Backspace or Delete and everything that was selected now goes to the value of the BACKGROUND color, which in this case is white (255,255,255). White outline will be gone in MM.Taking this a little bit further suppose we still have a little "ghost" outline that we want to get rid of. Get back to the last step where you have replaced all the "white" pixels with true white (or reopen the graphic, set the magic wand tolerance to zero, click on a white pixel) and all the white pixels are selected. Go to the Select menu and choose Inverse (or type CMD-SHIFT-I). Now what is selected is everything BUT white. Go to the Select menu again and choose Modify->Contract... In the box that comes up you'll type a number and when you click OK PS when move the selection in by however many pixels you typed in the box. Effectively shrinking whats selected closer in. Choose Inverse again and now if you hit backspace again your white pixels will have moved close in and removed some of the "ghost" outline.This technique takes a little bit of time to master and you'll often find yourself having to put individual pixels back into the graphic but after you've played with it a while it will become easy to figure out where you might have issues with the outline of a graphic. Again, this is done with Photoshop and I might or might not be familiar with whatever graphics package you're using but the concept is the same. Depending on what color MM uses for it's transparencies, in some cases white (255,255,255), in some cases AQUA (0,255,255) to make something transparent it MUST be EXACTLY that transparency value.This has been one long post and for those familiar with Photoshop I apologize if I stated things where you might go DUHHHHHH, No Kidding!!!, but I wanted to make this as clear as possible for everyone out there.Happy Mansioning all,Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
It diddn't work, sorry to dissapoint you Joe. Maybe I got mixed up, ( although I tried several times...) Is there one main thing That I need to do? Even when I fill everything in white, some pixels you can see through (again), some are just white... Is it possible not to make the image square, just the shape of the image? :-?
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
Send me the graphic. I'll see if I can get it to work for you. Use my email.Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
Do not write please so much. The compiler/translator diminishes to me! В
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
Sorry Mikee. When explaining I need to do 2 things.1. Give a complete explanation.2. Use as much detail as possible so the explanation can be followed.1 + 2 = a LOT of words.joeb
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
OK. For those who need the short explanation:Just because it looks like white it may not be white.Eliminate, or change to white, anything that isn't pure white.For the three color components ®ed (B)lue (G)reenR = 100% or 255B = 100% or 255G = 100% or 255HTH,Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
@Psychotronic:
Quote:*Joe explodes*
I've been chemically defused 8-) 8-) 8-)Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
[quote author=joeb link=1174710906/0#12 date=1175616216]1 + 2 = a LOT of words.[/quote]Yes 1 + 2 = A Lot of words. Only with us is it somewhat different... With us 1 + 2 = 3
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
FYI all,The TOTOMBs graphic set is almost complete.Sorry for so many posts in a row but I've been up to my eyeballs in real work, reorganization at the office so I've just been lurking on the forums.Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
Me and my dad worked on this this morning. WOW! I still don't get it... I changed the background to pure white and it DOES say the colors are 255... all three of them! Does the picture have to be a different format? (we tried pcd and psd) The bricks aren't working either. When I put the light blue in (0,255,255) it shows up in MM as well as in photoshop. My dad suggested transparent layers but nothing happened. The only other thing I have to ask is why are the mummy graphics so darn small!?! They're too small for the normal graphics and the game has a problem when I put some in... Hopefully this will be the last time I (and even my dad) ask. :-? :-[
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
They have to be .jpeg! .psd is for Photoshop! .pic is for many apps. as a main image type. Mainly for me, Color it!™. Color is excellent for making new bad guys, and Photoshop is harder to use. It sooo complicated but I manage. To make it .jpeg, when you save your image in Photoshop, make sure the type is jpeg or jpg (No difference) and NOT .pic or .psd. You should read the documents that came with the game! They explain alot! Like how to get custom music, custom backgrounds, ect. (Not sure about sprites and tiles though, read Joeb's tutorial again) Oh yeah, .png works, too for the background type! Quickest way is to take a screenshot of the background you want. Command + Shift + 3 takes full screen screenshot, Command + Shift + 4 you can select an area with the mouse. The screenshot should appear on the desktop. If not, search for "Picture 1, or 2, or whatever.
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
Yeah, the picture type doesn't help. I don't know what's going on...
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
Wingy,We're talking Phototshop here so let's leave ColorIt out of the discussion, PLEASE! ColorIt may be your tool of choice but anything I've been doing with sam is Photoshop.ThanksOK sam,First, what are trying to work with? Background images need to be saved as jpg, not jpeg.If you're talking about tiles then to make the background transparent it needs to be 0,255,255 (AQUA).Also it is IMPORTANT to do one of two things to get ALL the graphics. 1.If you have a multiple layer graphic do a FLATTEN IMAGE from the LAYER menu. Then do a SELECT ALL from the Edit menu. Then do a COPY. Open whatever resource editor you're using and make sure you have a new PICT resource (or the one you want to overwrite) open. Then do a PASTE. What resource editor ARE you using? If you having trouble I'll give you specific instructions. 2. The second way of getting all the graphics is to do a SELECT ALL like above. Then do a COPY MERGED from the Edit menu. Follow thru with the rest of the instructions from 1. above.Also when you do the SELECT ALL make sure that the entire graphic window has the "marching ants" marquee all the way around it. If you accidently hit an arrow key or another key you might see the selection be somewhere in the middle of the graphic window. NO GOOD! The whole window needs to be selected.When you're going directly from Photoshop to the resource editor you don't need to worry about ANY formating just that you have the entire graphic AND all layers selected. Hope this helps.By the way I didn't hear back from you about the hand graphic pointer I did for you. I know it worked on my end but I didn't hear back from you. By the way don't give up!!!! I've already stated that I'd help anyone with their graphics issues. Besides graphics like these are only possible with a LOT of touch up work in another graphics package but a single filter in Photoshop. Keep at it!!!!Joe BJack arriving at the Ghosthunter Train Station
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
Yes, I have figured out how to make it actually SNOW. The snow effect on the Ghosthunter castle is a single Alien Skin filter.Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
Whoops.The mummy graphics are that size because they HAVE TO BE. You can get away with larger graphics on some of the gargyole, angel, hanging pictures, vases and stuff in that area of the resources, BUT the critter sprites MUST be the size they are in the original MM Sprite file otherwise you'll get some VERY interesting but useless graphics. В Joe BHmmmmmmm.......Hey Vern, future reference. When you load the sprites file (or very soon the mansion file) if you read the size of the PICT resource and then divided by the number of frames for that particular critter you could THEN do critters of any size. Yeah I know, a lot of work. Just something to think on.jb
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
Quote:Yes 1 + 2 = A Lot of words. Only with us is it somewhat different... With us 1 + 2 = 3
And in base 31 + 2 = 10000102101112100............But I was talking about the items numbered 1 and 2 in my response not any numeric calculations. 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
Unfortunately, the han still had some white around it. I'll try this out and see if it helps. Thanks Joe!
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
I got bad news, good news, bad news, and more good news:BN: Your teqnique diddn't work.GN: Somehow, when I was trying things on my own, my sprite suddenly doesn't have a white blur around it!!! ;D ;D ;D [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]BN: I need to find out what exactly I did...GN: Your graphics are really cool Joe!I'm using rrezilla as a recourcer, and it's gotten me this far so... ;DThanks Joe!
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
well... we'll just have to wait and see. ou two aren't the only ones making custom graphics... Wait until Utah comes out!!!
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
That is coooool! В This background is genuinly the true! Good work!!! В 8-)
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
If you want to see more of Ghosthunter check out the topic under talk. (I know it'll never be as good as Ted В :)I've been thinking on the issues some builders are having with getting graphics into their mansions so I'm going to be changing the way I release my graphic sets. I'm going to put them into an empty mansion so that you folks can either pull them out easily with what ever resource tool you want to use and put them into your mansion or use it as a place to start. Good idea, bad idea??????Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
I feel like I'm going to write a short thing about how to make custom things work.You must have a good coloring application like Color it!™, Pixen or Photoshop 7.0 or and up. You also need a good resorucer editor, like ResEdit (Classic needed) or Rezilla. (That's for OS X, BTW)Once you have that, do this to chance Sprites, sounds or graphicsuplicate the Data folder.Name the old one "Data Folder original"Name the new one "Data Folder"Open sprites, or sounds, or grpahics with your resourcer.Go into the resourcer with whichever one you want to edit.Sounds has sound effects, graphics has graphics for title screen and some for in game, sprites has tiles, coins, keys, winning spot, mostly everything you see in gameIn sprites, copy your resource by copying it with Command + C after selecting it. Go into Photoshop or color it or whatever application you use for editing pictures, and do your editing and make sure that you have the sprites on a grid so they don't mess up while in game! After you're done that, copy what you did, (Command + C) and memorize the little number under the picture in the resourcer. Delete it after you got it in your head, and paste the new picture you made. (Command + V) Make sure you do Command + I and rename the pict. with the same I.D. as the old one that you edited. Do this again for each sprite picture. For sounds, get your sound effect, or make it, and save it as a .mov file. Rename the .mov sound effect as .snd, then drag it in Quicktime, and press Command + A, (Select all) then copy. (Command + C) In the resourcer, memorize the sound I.D. you want to edit. Delete it, paste your new file, and press Command + I and rename it as the same I.D. as the old one.For graphics, it's pretty much the same as the sprites.For backgrounds, draw your background, save it as "background8.jpg" (or .png) (or with a 9, 10 or 11 ect.) and put it in screens folder in game data folder IN the Midnight Mansion folder. Then go into the editor and select it as the background. (Shortcut to get to background select: Command + B)For music, make it or download it and make sure it's not copyrighted or anything, and make it Background Music 5.mp3. (or with 6, 7 or 8 ect.)Hopefully this could answer a few questions.Cheers,Wingy 8-)BTW: Good idea, Joeb.
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
Well, what you could just give permission to get the graphics straight from the mansions... BTW: could I use some of the TOTOMBS graphics, I am building an underground area...
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
I think you should try drawing it yourself. Maybe then you will make something that fits your personality! В
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
@sam skelton,Help yourself! I'm going to put up empty mansions with all my graphics if you feel like waiting. In the meantime take a look at the graphics below. This is a partial set from Ghosthunter. When it's released in a couple of weeks help yourself to those too (I'd ask that you wait until I release it). But maybe they can give you some ideas. Nice thing about the wall and lava graphics is that they're tiled which means you can repeat the blocks and they don't look as blocky as some of the backgrounds can. You can get a VERY random look just by replacing a single block here and there. For real personality I create my background screens totally from scratch. I don't copy any game screens. @ryos,I really think that GH will be a breakthrough mansion for M&J. Unlike earlier M&J mansions there is not just one set path thru. There is a shortest path that only goes thru 1/3 of the rooms. Like older M&J mansions you'll find what you need along the way but there's so much more to explore. There will also be a LOT more secrets. I'll have to wait and see what sort of feedback I get before I start the massively modified Search for Jack.Enjoy guys.....Joe B Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
Here are the some of the graphics in use. The left side is a mountain side room, the ride side is an underground room. NO they're not next to each other. Maybe this will give you some underground ideas. On the left there is a background screen partially uncovered to match the foreground objects. The right hand side is tiles and objects ONLY.This help???Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
So... where's the mansion? В :-?
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
Well, it sure gives me some ideas... I already have a third of the sprites done. I'll have to look at the tutorial to remove the white outline... ;D Thanks Joe!Wingy- can't wait for your mansion too!
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
sam skelton,Don't know if it's covered in as much detail as the posts I put up here recently (reply #8 & #20). If you're having a lot of problems send me the problem graphics and what you're looking for. If they're secret and you don't want to post them here just email me. I share MY graphics not somebody else's. At least then I can tell you want the issue is.later,Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by aquaMat
Joe.... those different stone walls look SOO great.... much more realistic than anything before...and still going perfectly with the "comic-stripo look" of MM !!I'd love to use some of those.... but only very few...otherwise I would feel bad... for not making my own stuff....and relying too much on other people's efforts !! В :-X 8-)
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
aquaMat,BAH! It's there to be shared and used. Even if you don't use them as is you can always just "tweak" them. Change the color, soften the texture, scale them up/down. In TOTOMB some of the bricks were from images of real Incan structures. I just shrunk them, and worked with the color/contrast. Now I use a tool called Genetica Pro (Windows only В :'( :'() because it can generate repeatable tiling that blends more smoothly.The important thing is that it got you thinking, I know the feeling of I should have just done it myself but often time taking something that's close and working with it to get the look you want not only saves time but it does make it your own. But I won't ever just take an image from somewhere else and throw it in.See you later and please feel free to use the stuff and ask away. I think we're going to have a great contest with all the ideas flying around.Later guy,Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
actually Joe, my graphics are working great! I've just been too buisy exploring graphics and have been too lazy to get rid of the blue outline. For anyone who wants to see the graphics, you'll have to wait! [smiley=evil.gif] ;D
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
this is a silly question, but I made a mistake while making Utah backgrounds...Can someone copy and paste up here background 3??? :-[
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
Here ya go
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
This background is for or other Mansion an ok, but super is not really it... В
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
Mikee,Read the thread! sam skelton asked someone to put up the MM background 3 screen which I did.Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by sam skelton
thanks! I fll a bit stupid right now... ;D
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
Mikee,How about this? Lava tunnels behind the Ghost King castle...... 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
And with a little Ted twist... Behind Sird's fortress. : Darn! No lava! Only water!
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
Nice work wingy!! В В I can hardly expect it!
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by aquaMat
You must be joking, Mikee.This is obviously absolutely identical to Joe's room / screenshot...just with Ted sprites/tiles.What is the purpose of it i... I dare not think about that.... В :
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
[quote author=aquaMat link=1174710906/45#48 date=1176735445]What is the purpose of it i... I dare not think about that.... :[/quote] Just for fun. Wanting to do that for a really funny joke for awhile, and now was my chance! BTW: Joe didn't send me his mansion to do this. I copied it from the screenshot! ;D :Exept Joe didn't include that bar with Jack's lives, articles, ect.
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by brell
[quote author=Wingy link=1174710906/45#49 date=1176737003][quote author=aquaMat link=1174710906/45#48 date=1176735445]What is the purpose of it i... I dare not think about that.... :[/quote]BTW: Joe didn't send me his mansion to do this. I copied it from the screenshot! ;D :[/quote]And with Joe's permission, right?
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
It's not copyrighted! : It was just for fun.
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by brell
I am fully aware that it is not copyrighted. В That was not my point.
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
[quote author=aquaMat link=1174710906/45#48 date=1176735445]You must be joking, Mikee.This is obviously absolutely identical to Joe's room / screenshot...just with Ted sprites/tiles.What is the purpose of it i... I dare not think about that.... :[/quote]Ok, Then is this a notgood work В В no,no... В В
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
[quote author=joeb link=1174710906/45#45 date=1176415124]Mikee,How about this? Lava tunnels behind the Ghost King castle...... 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)Joe B[/quote]Hey Joeb,Send to me nevertheless this background to me. Find the genuinly cool, would like it out times to try.
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
OK guys....I stated earlier in my posts that I didn't care if you worked off my graphics. So although Wingy didn't ask, it's OK that he used his own graphics with a room layout of mine. Besides which the room has already changed and the feel in GH will be different in Ted or whatever. I most certainly don't want to get any negative threads started on the forum now that we're so close to the contest and things are settling down.I also asked that before using GH graphics you wait В (not that long now) for GH to be released. I think I'll be in beta the end of this week.As you might or might not know, I will be starting graphics work on the forum soon (after some polls) so some of my graphics might appear there and will be Actionsoft's. Also Vern has asked if he could use some of my screens as part of the expansion pack and I said yes. I think that will mean that everyone will have use of them when the expansion pack comes out so why don't we all wait until then. There are about 6 other screens which I'm signing over to Vern and IMNSHO they're also not bad.I'll also keep helping (as time permits) designers on the side with graphics of their own. Outside of generalized techniques (like my explanation of the snow/fog effects in GH) I will keep those graphics separate from anything that I post.I must say that I'm pretty pleased with all the interest in graphics that's happening. We're going to wind up with some really impressive mansions here with the contest.Later all,Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
One other thing. Although I am at administrator status I am not an administrator and the word of the REAL forum administrators is the law. Although some of us subscribe to the "Beg forgiveness, don't ask permission" school of thought I prefer to "Ask first" then there's no forgiving needed. I don't think I've said NO to any requests other than those which I know are contrary to forum rules. So although there's no issue here (from my point of view) it might be a good idea to think first before acting. I'm working on it myself. Joe B
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
Just to clear some things up, I deleted that room that I copyed from Joe's GH! AOT (Adventures of Ted) wouldn't fit that room anywhere. I just said behind Sird's fortress just like Joe said behind the evil ghost lord's castle. It won't be in my mansion. This will probably clear up any misunderstandings, brell.One question... how many mansions are you entering, Joe?? В :-?Oh, I wasn't here for the promotion of Joe to admin. Congratulations! ;D В [smiley=birthdays.gif] [smiley=birthdays.gif]I'm still stuck at exp. leader. But I don't really know how to run a forum, better leave it to the older people! В
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by joeb
NOT entering any mansions. Just building and releasing what I build after testing. I felt I would be more of a help to the forum as a resource for others.My "promotion" was strictly so I could get at the graphics of the forum. I have nothing to do with the operations. You still need to go to Freddy, brell or suztours for those functions.joeb
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
Hey joeb, then you can learn something from the other Admins. В To one you then to also ask can with the functions... Does the Admins actually go through also to contest? :o
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
Well... congrats of getting upgraded to being...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Joe B. Administrator of Grapics.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Now you can feel more special! В ;D :
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by brell
As far as I understand the rules everybody except the judges can enter the contest.
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
I didn't say he couldn't, I just want him to feel good! В :
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
And that is history of the singular joeb graphic admin В
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by VernJensen
Not sure if this was made clear, but Joe has been upgraded to Admin status simply so he can work on changing the layout of these formums to be cooler, like the old Midnight Mansion fansite, intead of the plain white/blue look it has now. But Joe isn't an admin really. He just needs the upgrade so he can access what he needs to, in order to change the graphics.I for one am looking forward to seeing what he does with the site's look in the future!
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
Yes, I knew that. So now Joe is:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Joe Banko - Administration of the Restoration of the Graphics from the Old Forums~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I've been getting abit bored of the blue and white. It's been quite repetitive. Joe, we can't tell you how much we'll thank you once the forums is back the way they where before!
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Freddy
@ Mikee: I do ! And hope brell does as well. And just, maybe, Suztours? Come one Suz!! Join the company.
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by aquaMat
Wasn't suztours made an admin. 'cause she wanted to do something with the forum graphics in the first place ??She hasn't been around much, hasn't she ?
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Mikee
[quote author=Freddy link=1174710906/60#66 date=1177029278]@ Mikee: I do ! And hope brell does as well. And just, maybe, Suztours? Come one Suz!! Join the company.[/quote] Ok
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Wingy
[quote author=aquaMat link=1174710906/60#67 date=1177063188]Wasn't suztours made an admin. 'cause she wanted to do something with the forum graphics in the first place ??She hasn't been around much, hasn't she ?[/quote]Yeah, you're right. Maybe she's to busy touring people around her town? After all, it is getting pretty chilly up here, and people want to go south! В Maybe we should flood her e-mail box and PM box to get a move on... Joking!
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Re: Custom Graphics Sets by Freddy
I believe that for most of us in America and Europe, it isn't always easy to understand how it is to live and work in a country that is always at the edge of terrorism or war. And since Suzanne's work is depending from tourism, any attack of any kind stop several travellers to go to her country.So I fully respect that she often has other things on her mind than we do. Btw, it is WITH her permission that we asked someone else to go on with the layout of the boards. And sooner or later, I am sure of it, we will see Suzanne back in better times. Oh, and no one ever said that Suzanne was only an administrator to make work of the lay-out. She is and stays a full administrator (unless Vern should decide to change that and I don't see any reason why). That means that at any time she may be back to strengthen the admin-team again.
I would to make that in that music folder of MM, but when I have made this and write the right number at the music and at the mansion, i hear not from the music. I don't know but it's a midi File. I had to try this in a mp3 file but i can't hear the music. And now what i must make? 
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Nice backgrounds. Might use them, sometimes.But the thing we really need... is new Characters! Artists, get your brushes!I've done my Ted charater, (Look at my Avatar) ![[Image: shocked.gif]](http://actionsoft.com/forums/Templates/Forum/default/shocked.gif)
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If you know a place that has it for free please tell me.![[Image: cry.gif]](http://actionsoft.com/forums/Templates/Forum/default/cry.gif)
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Please tell me how to get it for free.![[Image: sad.gif]](http://actionsoft.com/forums/Templates/Forum/default/sad.gif)
Some one should remove the link.