Eye of XANA (Red/Grey)

XANA Symbol, from the french anime Code Lyoko

So a friend of mines asked, "I wonder if there was any Code Lyoko skins?" My efforts of searching turned fruitless, so I did the next-somewhat-best thing, make my own! Just used a randomly found image on google search so.

This is my first spray, and I don't have many tools to work with (Paint.net and VTFedit, the beforehand I don't even know how to use :c ) therefore making this a little more longer to make and rather a challenge to do so as I only knew the hard way to make it the way it is.

Enough of my rambling now, I'd really appreciate feedback, even if it's those short, stupid ones c:

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  • Devieus's Levels
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    Posted 9 months ago

    I see there's a lot of noise in the spray when I open it in Gimp (which I suggest you should consider using for future projects), this is what happens when you use compression and makes the spray look terrible. The normal way to fix this is to resize the spray to 256x256 and use RGBA8888 instead, but since this is monochrome with a reasonable, decent alpha channel, all you really need to do is make the base image the same color (i.e. a blanc amaranth/gray square) and let the alpha channel do the work.

    Next thing, this spray is in the 'Team Fortress 2' category, but the screenshots show 'Counter-Strike: Source' and 'Left 4 Dead 2', which suggests it should be in the GameBanana/Source category instead.

    One more thing about the screenshots, you'd do well to hide all the clutter surrounding the spray (i.e. the hud and the weapon), to do this, open the console and type these commands:

    sv_cheats 1
    cl_drawhud 0
    impulse 200
    

    Disabling clipping ('noclip') also helps. Doing this, however, this does mean you have to do this offline. Also, make sure the texture qualities are all boosted to the max, it's not like you're making a movie here, you don't need a high framerate.

    Lastly, you'd do well by adding a bit of directory structure; for all games this is pretty much the same from 'materials' onward anyway.

    Addendum for bonus points, play around with the alpha channel to make it look like an actual spray, stuff like partial transparency can give the impression that not every spot has been given the same amount of attention or that it was somewhat rushed; it can also help bring out the underlying texture's grittiness.

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  • Martin-PL's Levels
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    Posted 9 months ago

    I love you (no homo). I've been looking for this for AGES.

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    Posted 9 months ago

    Aaack. See a little typo I overlooked... I meant Sprays*

    Bananite

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