Mana Games

[Dilima]

Bad news, I'm not able to make Petkovic face I haven´t good photos ...Now Julia Goerges Hamza si tu pouvais me donner les photos ...

[torto14]

Sorry Dilima, but your Minella face does not look very good

You need to add textures for the whole face, not just eyes/nose/mouth. You should also use a pic with a closed, unsmiling mouth (you don't players with a fixed grimace the whole match! ). I can post my method of doing faces for you if you want.

There should be something usable for Petkovic, I'll try and look later.

[Dilima]

I would apreciate if you post your method...

[torto14]

Ok, I will later, I am busy right now.

[Dilima]

Ok thanks!!

[Dilima]

If you could make it in video it would be perfect...

[torto14]

I tried Minella's face, from a better pic (literally the one suitable one I could find: http://www.peoples.ru/sport/tennis/mand ... lla-05.jpg)

What do you think of the result (I'll upload it if it's alright)?

faceprev9.jpg

I'll post that tutorial soon (can't do a video, sorry).

[torto14]

Sorry, I ran out of time to do the tutorial today but I did make a Petkovic face (more fun )

faceprev10.jpg

[Dilima]

Thanks!!

[torto14]

Ok, here is a little tutorial on the faces, i can't say if it's the best way to do it, but it what I have been doing:


1. Find your image, I usually use Google image search (a useful feature is to set the type to "Face"). Remember to aim for a pic that is: unsmiling, closed mouth, directly facing camera.

If you find a pic where half the face looks good, but the other half has a problem (e.g. over-lit, under-lit, wrong angle, closed eye) you can clone and mirror the good half and "stitch" it together with a little editing in Photoshop.

2. Now that you have your pic, crop to the relevant section (the face ) and copy. If there are any obvious blemishes (e.g. very dark or light areas) you may wish to remove them with clone too at this stage, but it is not necessary.

3. Open the default face01.jpg image to serve as a template and paste your image on top. Adjust the transparency of your image layer so that you can see both layers clearly.

4. Re-size your image until the features (eyes, nose, mouth) align with the ones on the template. Eye alignment is of particular importance. Restore full transparency when done.

5. Use the colour replacement tool to set the skin colour your image to match with the template. If necessary, adjust brightness/contrast to create a better match, whilst retaining detail. Try to avoid the eyes, eyebrows and lips.

6. Colour the yellow area at the bottom of the template with skin color.

7. Blend the edges of the image with the lower layer using the smudge tool and the clone stamp tool.

8. Alter the ridge of yellow hair to match the player's actual colour. Depending on their hairline your may need to reduce or extend the areas of hair.

9. Save (as facexx.jpg), create a template (all black) add to the gamesys.ini and test in game.

10. Make further adjustment depending on how it looks (it is unlikely to be perfect first time) Remember once the face is in the game, you don't need to close it after each adjustment, just click on the player twice and it will update.


Hope this is of some help I'll upload those two faces in my thread later.

Edit: spelling/typos.

[Dilima]

Torto I can´t use the replacement tool Help me...

[torto14]

What's your problem with it? Are you using Photoshop or something else?

[Dilima]

Photoshp but I don't know who to use the replacement tool...

[torto14]

First, right click on the brush icon and you should see color replacement in the drop-down menu.

To use it: alt+click on the colour you wish to change to (the source) and then click and drag over the areas you want to replace (target). Make sure mode is set to "Color".

[Dilima]

Ok understood... I'm working in Goerges face