DPaint Room Background

[Elliott Hird]

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I'm not very good at dpaint, but i came up with this pretty quick. What do you think? C&C welcome.
EDIT: Fixed link.

[jetxl]

I'm thinking about lassi quest for some reason.

[Andail]

Hehe, indeed.
Elliott, start by saving your Visyesque background in a format supported by common webbrowsers.

Then we can commence our usual avoid-the-filters drill.

[Elliott Hird]

Alas, I only have dpaint, and the most widely supported format that it can do is pcx, I'm afraid. I'll change it sometime.

No filters used. gradients != filters.

[Krysis]

I bottered to help. This is in PNG.

It aint bad but it looks empty to me.

[Elliott Hird]

It IS bare, I'll add objects and stuff later if i actually use it.

edit: thanks btw

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

The gradients seem to be rather haphazardly used.  There seems to be no specific light source (look at the base boards in particular, one has light coming from top left, one from the left, and one from the bottom left).  For gradients to be used properly you need to set a light source and reference them from it.

[visy (the guy who made Lassi Quest)]

Now that certainly takes me back... DPaint rocks the big one! Box rooms galore!

..Nice to see that somebody still knows who makes the toughest DPaint art around here

PCX for the greatest pleasure.

[Elliott Hird]

Now that certainly takes me back... DPaint rocks the big one! Box rooms galore!

..Nice to see that somebody still knows who makes the toughest DPaint art around here

PCX for the greatest pleasure.

Uh, that's nice? Hey, I told you I suck.

The gradients seem to be rather haphazardly used.  There seems to be no specific light source (look at the base boards in particular, one has light coming from top left, one from the left, and one from the bottom left).  For gradients to be used properly you need to set a light source and reference them from it.

The light source is probably coming from the invisible viewport wall, it seems like that to me at least...

Thanks for all the C&C.

[visy (the guy who made Lassi Quest)]

Actually Elliot, I meant that it reminded me of my own "artwork" of years back.

[Elliott Hird]

Actually Elliot, I meant that it reminded me of my own "artwork" of years back.

I realised that after I'd posted . (and it's Elliott. You have no idea how many hairs i've lost over those mizpellungz)

[Janik]

Comments/questions:

- What is the green rectangle? A window? A painting?
- The floor, ceiling, AND walls are orange. Might I suggest hiring a new interior decorator 

[Elliott Hird]

Comments/questions:

- What is the green rectangle? A window? A painting?
- The floor, ceiling, AND walls are orange. Might I suggest hiring a new interior decoratorÃ, 

The green rectangle? Why, can't you see? It's obvious! It's... a green rectangle!
Yeah, I've shot him. He was just an, ahem, test case.

[Andail]

Are you trying to make it psychadelic? No offense, it could work as a part of a psychadelic game, or a Lassi quest clone or something.

But if you want to make a more mundane game, just take a brief look at an ordinary room. Your own, for instance. You will see how all the gradients, the colour-scheme and the general composition is quite absurd.

[Elliott Hird]

Are you trying to make it psychadelic? No offense, it could work as a part of a psychadelic game, or a Lassi quest clone or something.

But if you want to make a more mundane game, just take a brief look at an ordinary room. Your own, for instance. You will see how all the gradients, the colour-scheme and the general composition is quite absurd.

How do you know my room isn't like that ? j/k

Problem is, it's just hard to get the right colour.
What's so bad about orange anyway ?

[Darth Mandarb]

I don't think the orange is the "psychadelic" part Andail was referring to.

More the way the room doesn't seem "normal".  The gradients (as was already mentioned) go every which way.

Here's a quick paint-over to show you how to (I think) effectively use gradients:



Hope you find it helpful!

[Elliott Hird]

I don't think the orange is the "psychadelic" part Andail was referring to.

More the way the room doesn't seem "normal".Ã,  The gradients (as was already mentioned) go every which way.

Here's a quick paint-over to show you how to (I think) effectively use gradients:



Hope you find it helpful!

When I clicked on this thread just now, and saw your name in the last post column, I thought "i bet there's gonna be a paintover here." And what happened? I'm psycic.

That's a really good paintover btw, my only problem is dpaint can't do vertical gradients...

How the heck did lucasarts manage without a vertical gradient tool?

[Krysis]

LOL. Try rotating.

[Nikolas]

Try a new painting program

[Helm]

naw, stick with Dpaint.