DSA Toy Theater.

[Light496]

Hahahah too funny

[JDEZ09]

Or me when i get knifed i act it out

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[Light496]

I remember one day rage went haywire and went on a friendly killing spree on BF3. it looked hilarious as he chased me and everyone else, and tried to kill us.

And a apparently it's funny to hear me scream as I'm chasing after jake wen I try to knife him.

[BOSS]

Sent you a pm, bro! Can't wait to see what you have in store for us.

[Kamui]

PM'ed you man, my bad I jumped the gun.

[Deslock]

Special announcement !!

If anyone does or sees anything that they consider funny at a practice, (since I usually have to work that night) Please feel free to PM me the event(s), So I can consider using them in this project.

I already have some from Solo and Dooku.

But as I said, please PM me privately and not post them here publically, so I can suprise everyone here with them.

Right now I'm working on DSA BF3/4, and a DSA Sea story.

I was losing my mind on figuring out just how to make a water set, but now that I have GIMP, I can just CGI the water, which is making this much, much easier to do, as well as adding underwater effects. I can't wait to show you guys the ships and all the props I have. I've bought a bunch more in just these last few days. (Thank you dear wife I LOVE YOU !!!, and thank you for your support and ideas with this ! *because she does read these threads sometimes, and suggests props, and sometimes buys them for me*)

THANK YOU RAGE SOOOOO MUCH !!!! :D You've saved me so much trouble and anguish on how to do all these effects to really make this project special. :D :D :D

Instead of just putting up a few at a time, I'm working on a lot so that way I can put them all up at once, but I know waiting is a pain, but it will all be worth it, I promise.
All I need is one more tank, and a few planes *. I've been looking for the Power Team Elite Russian tank, but I cannot find it anywhere... But dammit, I will find it !

* I do have a lot of planes, but they're all G.I. Joe/Cobra planes, and I want the more modern realistic ones for BF3/4

[Deslock]

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the comments. All I can say is thank God for Utube.
And Boss for pointing them out to me.

From what I learned before on other programs is just left clicking on what I want to work with and going from there. This program doesn't do that. You have to select which "layer" you want to work on, and I'm just not used to that. The version I downloaded doesn't have a manual or an online one, I've had to watch a lot of videos, or just figure it out on my own, by trial and error.

Many times I'll click on a tool to work on something, and it will just come up with a "cancel" sign (circle with a bar through it) and I have to figure out why it won't let me do what I want to. Nowhere does it say I have to go to the options dialogue bar and click "select to Alpha" for that layer, nor say that I have to merge certain layers to then get the effects I want. So I've been having to watch an insane amount of Utube Tuts, and thank God for these wonderful people that post them.

Like I said before, I'm not bitching about it. It's just like someone gave you a pirated version of the new $3000.00 dollar version of Adobe, but minus the manual on how to use it. The guys and girls that use this are indeed awesome, and I really appreciate them taking their own time out to make these Utube Tuts. :D It certainly has made trying to figure out this proggy easier to learn. Most of the comments that I've read about it do complain about the overly complicated GUI for it. But I really am amazed at how deep it is once you properly know how to use it. :D

Learning how to do the flame effects was really F'n cool, and very necessary to this project of mine.

Now to work on the blur....

[Stryker0022]

Looks really good. A lot of TLC.


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[RageProphetXIII]

That looks great man.

[Deslock]

Testing....

Before:








After:

[Deslock]

Wow, this is as I said before a very complicated proggy, but a damn fine one.
Having cut my teeth on Coreldraw and Adobe, I do understand what the tools are, but as Boss said, it goes in really weird ways on just how to do it.

This program does not have a straight line "snap to line" tool that I'm used to using. But I did figure it out. You have to click on the path tools icon and create a path for it, select the width, colour, and tool (paintbrush-airbrush-pencil...Whatever), and then create a path for it.

I'm used to selecting a tool, picking the colour and width, selecting the straight line anchor, and just snapping it down. Pretty simple. But this proggy doesn't do simple. The hoops it makes you jump thru is more complicated than it needs to be.

As in, (for those of you that's never used a proggy like this ever, you can see the kind of home work that I've been going through this last week ):



Why she just didn't use the rectangle tool and make a simple box around it is beyond me. To someone that's never used a graphics proggy before, this one would make their head explode. :D

I do have several days off this next week, I'm really going to try and nail this proggy down. Once again, thanks to Rage for pointing out this free program to me. :D

Now I can do all the special effects that I've been wanting to do for this project.

It's just learning all the steps necessary is confounding. Thank God Boss pointed me to the Utube Tut's. :D

[Deslock]

The only thing I found annoying with GIMP was the extra steps to perform simple tasks that can be easily done in PhotoShop.

I totally see what you mean Boss. It's sooo agravating that you can't just put down a text box and move it by clicking on it. All that does is open another text box, that you can't easily get rid of or delete. Holy Cow, this proggy is indeed complicated... It certainly assumes you already know how to use it; it is certanly NOT a user friendly GUI. Last night I was trying how to figure out something as simple as making a straight line with it; and damn near had me banging my head on the desk. It's a very deep and complex proggy.

It has a circle tool, an elipse tool, and a rectangle tool; but no hint of a straight line tool. I'm sure it's there, I just haven't found it yet. It's use of a system of layers upon layers is really impressive, and you can tweek anything to the Nth degree, but doesn't have a simple "snap to line" tool truly baffles me. Place an anchor here, and another here, set your pixel width, depth, and colour, and just snap it down.

But I was astounded at the font levels, and how you can damn near use any language on Planet Earth with it, including even Himalayn, Arabic, and Thai.
Hell even more than that.

I can see why Rage said he used it in school, as you'd damn near have to attend classes to learn to use it properly. As I went to college for graphic arts and computer design I understand all the different tools, and how they are used. But Boss, you are right that it uses a somewhat convoluted process for doing what I would call "simple" tasks. It does indeed make you jump thru some bizarre hoops.

It's like someone asking you to teach them simple math, and you give them a book on advanced physics, and then say "Figure it out yourself. I wrote the book, gave it to you for free, you figure out all on your own how it all works together".

But don't get me wrong, I'm NOT ragging on the program. It's awesome, amazing, and free. But it's been so long now that I'm out of the loop, kinda like how I felt after being married for sooo many years, and then had to start the whole "dating" thing again. It's not the proggy, It's me.

It's like "where do I even start..?"

Thank you Boss for the advice to check out Utube for Tut's. :D It's really helped a lot.
But I certainly understand your comment now.

[Deslock]

Sorry I didn't respond earlier. But seems like you got plenty of help. And yes that program is pretty nice just have to get the hang of it.

You're not even kidding. I've been playing with it all night, and I've barely even scratched the surface on just how deep this program is. I was just looking for something a little bit better that MS paint that would get the job done. GIMP is waaaay more than that. It's fantastic. But wow. I can tell I'm going to spend some serious time on the online tutorials.

But really Rage, I mean it when I say I really appreciate you telling me about this program. All I was asking for was a BB gun, and you gave me a nuclear bomb of a proggy. I can't wait to do some really amazing things with this.

Thank you again sooo much !.
I'm really excited about this ! :D

[RageProphetXIII]

Sorry I didn't respond earlier. But seems like you got plenty of help. And yes that program is pretty nice just have to get the hang of it.

I have all sorts of free open source program recommendations if anyone needs anything just let me know.

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[Deslock]

I do have to say that I'm really impressed by the professionalism of this program, and even more so that it's provided free of charge. I've been watching the tutorials for it, and I'm absolutely amazed at the level of depth of this proggy, and how it matches up with being both better than both versions of Corel and Adobe that I was trained on years ago when I went to college, and ran my own business (and those two were top dollar at the time), and what amazing effects and tricks that people have been able to do with it.

Thanks again Rage for telling me about this free program. :D