A lot of you know me for my awesome CSPs. I have moved on to importing, but I don't want to leave Portrait making without helping others.
I hope you all enjoy :)
Supplies Needed:
Basic knowledge of BrawlBox http://www.mediafire.com/?slrig3kevcpux (http://www.mediafire.com/?slrig3kevcpux)
Basic Knowledge of Gimp http://www.filehippo.com/download_the_gimp/ (http://www.filehippo.com/download_the_gimp/)
CSS Templates:
(http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7021/bluenn.png)(http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6548/defaultfk.jpg)(http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/8968/electricg.png)(http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/8122/purpleb.png)(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1998/reddv.png)
(http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/9728/templatelarge.png)
^^Name Template is black^^
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Old Brawl Box:
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Very nice job.
Is this how you did your CSPs?
yes. yes it is ;D
This is amazing!! Thank you so much for this :)
Now I don't have to wait for other people to upload theirs!! This helps soo much :D
yeah bro this is a kicking ass tutorial now i wont have to ask too much for CSPS ;D
I've always wondered the proper way to do this. Well, I was slowly figuring it out myself but this tutorial is awesome. And it's now even better now that we have Brawlbox 0.64 which has proper good lighting.
thanks everyone :)
Finished the Recolor Tutorial, i think overall this thread is complete.
hopefully a mod will sticky this ^-^
Yes!! Request for sticky asap!!
You sir have made my csp making so much easier! Thank you VERY much! :D
And i approve of the sticky idea.
Stickied!!
Thanks Vish :af:
this is really easy i thought it would be harder
I dont Understand, if click the green areas and right click , layers,transparency and add alpha channel but, the green stays, What I have to do?
Quote from: Boosos on September 21, 2011, 06:57:00 PM
I dont Understand, if click the green areas and right click , layers,transparency and add alpha channel but, the green stays, What I have to do?
delete the green after you select alpha transparency. ill fix the OP
Got it and done, thank you the tutorial is awesome and I just want to ask you to make sure to put that we have to use the moving tool after step 14 in making csps and please specify a bit better the tutorial of making recolors,and I wonder what is the other and proper way of making csps that silentdoom mentioned...Thanks for the tutorial.
really helpful!
glad to help ;D
Also be aware that parts of your CSP will be cut off by the game interface.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/PhredLevi/framing.jpg)
I always keep that in mind because it bugs me to lose their faces under the ready bar.
awesome!
Quote from: Phred on October 04, 2011, 05:58:02 PM
Also be aware that parts of your CSP will be cut off by the game interface.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/PhredLevi/framing.jpg)
I always keep that in mind because it bugs me to lose their faces under the ready bar.
i use a different CSS... so i dont rly have that problem. but some people may.
Of course, even with the new brawlbox that has lighting, you should still play around with the dodge and burn tools on an overlapping layer to give the CSP more depth.
Actually, honestly, there are some better ways of doing this. Perhaps I should make my own CSP tutorial, even though I have little experience in the subject. But I've made my fair share of poses.
Thx for this incredible guide. Made my first CCS Names and portraits using this
glad to help :)
how do i increase the lighting? so it can become more brighter?
Quote from: Ricki Li on October 23, 2011, 11:35:04 PM
how do i increase the lighting? so it can become more brighter?
eh... try playing around with the dodge tool.
the new BrawlBox has lighting effects... maybe it can make things brighter?
very helpful.. :D
on teh recoloring, i took red and wanted it blue, so i mad ethe color of the brush blue, but it makes everythign blue. form your pic, it looks liek it doens.t how do i single it out?
Quote from: Caterpie on November 10, 2011, 06:05:32 PM
on teh recoloring, i took red and wanted it blue, so i mad ethe color of the brush blue, but it makes everythign blue. form your pic, it looks liek it doens.t how do i single it out?
did you change the brush "Mode" to "Color"?
yup
soo.... the whole entire picture becomes blue?
i dont really understand whats going on...
it replces all teh colors with blue, or a bluish tint. not the color i want. i wan all red to be blue. it makes everyhitng blue
meh. the color tool is pretty crappy in GiMP. it never works properly. you gotta play around with the other tools
you could also use the tone and saturation tool in GIMP
this was really helpful, and where could i templates?
Quote from: Ricki Li on November 27, 2011, 02:29:20 AM
this was really helpful, and where could i templates?
um... wut
Quote from: Nanobuds on November 27, 2011, 05:54:52 AM
um... wut
templates are empty textures, the regular ones, where can i get those to make a CSP, i already have the .pac fitmotion for every character, im just missing the .pcs/.pac files, but where can i get those?
resources section
Well, thanks, dude, and goodbye. You've REALLY been a great help here, and honestly, I'm gonna miss you... :-\
Quote from: Flik on December 01, 2011, 11:58:38 PM
Well, thanks, dude, and goodbye. You've REALLY been a great help here, and honestly, I'm gonna miss you... :-\
youre leaving? nooooooo
Quote from: Nanobuds on December 02, 2011, 01:01:08 AMyoure leaving? nooooooo
Oh, wait...you're staying?
Now I'm confused. On the OP, it said you were leaving...
Quote from: Flik on December 03, 2011, 02:41:58 AM
Oh, wait...you're staying?
Now I'm confused. On the OP, it said you were leaving...
oh... heh. thats when i left for like half the simmer i made this... i changed the OP about a week ago :P
1: Sorry if bumping.
2: I love you tutorial.
& 3: I don't think I did this quite right:
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It's the eyes that look weird to me... :-\
If you can tell me what I did wrong that would be great!
Its just the eye placement... that takes practice to get right.
also, try to brighten it up a bit... use the dodge tool a bit
About the CSS names, the font Nintendo uses for the default one is Mercury Display Bold (http://f.cl.ly/items/3c1O3L0Z0n1J1d1T3002/Screen%20Shot%202012-03-24%20at%2011.32.13%20PM.png)
Quote from: Nanobuds on March 13, 2012, 01:03:30 AM
Its just the eye placement... that takes practice to get right.
also, try to brighten it up a bit... use the dodge tool a bit
Hmm... So I just fix the eyes & move them a bit then I brighten it a bit? How do I fix the "eyes popping out at you" problem? They look a bit too big but if I make them smaller they are to tiny. Weird. What exactly does the Dodge Tool do?
Hey, I'm trying to do the CSS name, and I was wondering how I can get the Levibrush font onto my Gimp program. It didn't come with that font installed. I googled it, but I'm not really sure which download link to use, and I'm not sure how to install the font into Gimp.
Quote from: THE Sonic Wolf on March 25, 2012, 02:40:30 PM
Hmm... So I just fix the eyes & move them a bit then I brighten it a bit? How do I fix the "eyes popping out at you" problem? They look a bit too big but if I make them smaller they are to tiny. Weird. What exactly does the Dodge Tool do?
the Dodge tool brightens the pic
Quote from: Nanobuds on May 17, 2012, 12:47:22 AM
the Dodge tool brightens the pic
-_- I never knew.
Updated!
NOTE: the sound is off on this one
[Brawl Hacks] Making Character Selection Portraits (CSPs) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANErSqbM7mI#ws)
Nice job. This is really helpful!
Not sure if is the right place, but for some reason, even after replacing CSP files in sc_selcharacter_en.pac, (under char_bust_tex_lz77), they don't show up in the menu, much less on the battlefield. The characters' portraits I'm attempting to replace are located under Misc_Data[12] and Misc_Data[43], which are Peach and Wolf respectively.
The .png files in question are all 120x160 pixels with transparency layers using Photoshop, and yet, despite following all instructions, none of them ever show up in Brawl. Is this due to my using Dolphin as opposed to a real Wii console? Does it I need to delete the matching character costume's old palettes? (What I mean is, Peach's default outfit is named "MenSelchrFaceB.121", so if I swap that with a new CSP, do I need to delete the old palette)?