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Missions Briefing Icons

I don't know who this would be best addressed to - not that it really matters though but I was wondering how you did the icon animations. I can do the icons themselves and get them working correctly in FS2, it's just they tend to be of varying brightness. I've produced a few for 'Time of Change' of an Orion, Vasudan fighters wings, and Science cruiser (I'm doing these because I have been in the mood to work on missions) and annoyingly they look a bit odd when they are of different brightness. In itself it doesn't really matter, but if I'm going to do something, it might as well look good.

Looking at your own icons, they don't seem to have this problem so I was wondering how do you get them similar brightness

Just for info's sake this is the method I use to create the icons:
I tend to take a side view shot in modelview, grey scale it and shrink the image to the size I want it in FS2. Then I fade or brighten it (depending on whether I'm doing the fade or select ani) creating the animation steps. Once this is done the image is loaded into a extracted ani (to produce the correct colour palette) and the ani produced.

I hope that this all makes sense.

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Why not visit the [url=http://www.sectorgame.com/timeofchange/]Time of Change[/url] website?

Or perhaps my own website - [url=http://www.geocities.com/ackleyfarran/]Telencephalon[/url]

well you just make them the same brightness when making them ...errrr

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yeah.. just put the icons next to each other in whatever pakage you're using and adjust brightness/contrast/gamma till they look the same.

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How silly am I. That just never occured to me. Duh! Thanks.

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'The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us ...and our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between.' - Emperor Turhan

'Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.' - Law of Unintended Consequences

Why not visit the [url=http://www.sectorgame.com/timeofchange/]Time of Change[/url] website?

Or perhaps my own website - [url=http://www.geocities.com/ackleyfarran/]Telencephalon[/url]