Hi guys,
I used to post here quite a bit. I haven't made a game in over two years and feel like gettin back into it.
I know this SEEMS like an easy question, but I just can't figure it out. I'm making an old-school style sierra game. I'm making my 320x200 backgrounds in Photoshop 7. I'm using primarily the pencil tool as to keep the graphics basic (I don't want antialiasing or any of that). My problem is that I can't make a straight line. There is a line tool, but is creates a new layer and is anti-aliased. Is there a way to have a SIMPLE line tool (a la MSPaint) which acts just like the pencil, but creates a line instead?
Thanks a lot.
I have a possible solution:
Select the pencil tool, draw one single pixel where you want the line to start, the hold shift and click where you want the line to end
Yeah, thats the only way I think you can get a straight line without it being a layer mask or new layer...
You could try doing your basic outlines in SCI Studio and then just copying the pic to the clipboard... thats what I usually do now if I want a game with old-school grpahics.
Wow, thanks for the quick reply. I new there had to be a way to do it. Now, just out of curiousity, it there a way to see what the line will look like. As in MSPaint where you hold the mouse button down in order to position the line exactly where you want? If not, this method will still definitely work.
Thanks again.
Or simply uncheck "Anti-aliasing" after having selected the line tool :
(http://www.digitalmindstudio.ch/images/trucs/aa_line.gif)
And it works as in MS-Paint
Ah, thats much easier than the way I said... :)
I suck... :'(