Video Tutorial: Custom Artwork and Main Menu Image

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Category:	Graphics
Level:	Beginner
Created:	Saturday July 17, 2010 - 12:56
Updated:	Friday August 27, 2010 - 19:37
Views:	5815
Summary:	VIDEO TUTORIAL: Using GIMP w/DDS plug-in to edit EXISTING Artwork

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Summary:

VIDEO TUTORIALS showing you how to get your new artwork for Hero Portraits and buttons in-game; as well as how to change the load images and the main menu background.

This only shows you how to do this for existing characters and buttons.

Table of Contents:

Page 1. General Info and Notes
Page 2. Links to Video Tutorials: Hero Portraits and Buttons
Page 3. Link to Video Tutorial: How to change the load images and Main Menu Background

What You Need in Advance:

For this tutorial you will need to have:
a) GIMP
b) The DDS Plug-in for GIMP***
c) FinalBig
d) Have already extracted the TEXTURES folders from the main game directory.

Important Notes:

If you haven't installed FinalBig and/or extracted the textures folders, please go back to the Articles Page and complete these steps.
I'm including links for GIMP and the DDS plug-in for GIMP which will allow you to view Thumbnail size photos of the compiledtextures.

***This is the DDS file you want: gimp-dds-win32-2.0.9.zip

Recommendations?

Want to add to this tutorial? I welcome it! Please shoot me an email.

Links / Downloads

	Hits	Added
Template for Loadscreen and Main Menu Images	1263	July 26, 2010 - 19:55
DDS plug-in for GIMP -download this one: gimp-dds	1362	July 17, 2010 - 13:06
GIMP main program	1202	July 17, 2010 - 13:05

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