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Doofus-01: /* See Also */

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‎See Also

Pentarctagon at 23:09, 2 September 2021

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Egallager: /* Art Tutorials */ update notes

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‎Art Tutorials: update notes

Egallager: /* General Art and Computer Graphics */ note about scanning

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‎General Art and Computer Graphics: note about scanning

Pentarctagon: /* See Also */

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Pentarctagon: /* Terrain Graphics */

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‎Terrain Graphics

Pentarctagon: /* Terrain Graphics */

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‎Terrain Graphics

Pentarctagon at 08:39, 23 January 2021

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Pentarctagon: /* General Art and Computer Graphics */

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‎General Art and Computer Graphics

Pentarctagon: /* Terrain Graphics */

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 * [[EditingWesnoth]]
 * [[Project]]
 [[Category:Art Tutorials]]

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 * [[Creating Shadows Under Units]] - How we create the shadows for the units in-game.
 * [[How to Anti-Alias Sprite Art]] - A means of removing the jagged edges on pixel lines, for those that wish to do so.
 * [http://forums.wesnoth.org/download/file.php?id=56284 Zerovirus's Spriting Workflow] - Wesnoth artist Zerovirus explains step-by-step his methodology for creating Wesnoth sprites from scratch (.png file).
 * [[Creating a scratch built sprite]] - An attempt to show some ways creating a sprite from scratch.

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 * [[Using the Levels Adjustment]] - How to make scanned pencil drawings ''not'' look washed out.
 * [[Extending dynamic range]] - The Grooviest (so far) tutorial about extending the dynamic range of images and how this technique can be used to make better scans of pencil drawings.
 * [[Scanning with camera]] - How to transfer real-life art to computer using a digital camera instead of a scanner.
 * [[Art Supplies]] - What physical items you need to do larger cell-shaded art like that of Jetrel/Jormungadr/et al.
 * [[Inking With Pencils|Computer Inking a Sketch]] - Info from Jason Lutes on his portrait workflow.
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 * [[TeamColoring]] - How to automatically team-color sprites to see what they look like in various colors.
 * [[Creating Shadows Under Units]] - How we create the shadows for the units in-game.
-* [[How to Anti-Alias Sprite Art]] - A means of removing the jagged edges on pixel lines.
+* [[How to Anti-Alias Sprite Art]] - A means of removing the jagged edges on pixel lines, for those that wish to do so.
-* [[Rotate Pixel Art Without Blurring]]
+* [[Rotate Pixel Art Without Blurring]] - This page is bad; don't use it
 * [http://forums.wesnoth.org/download/file.php?id=56284 Zerovirus's Spriting Workflow] - Wesnoth artist Zerovirus explains step-by-step his methodology for creating Wesnoth sprites from scratch (.png file).
 * [[Creating a scratch built sprite]] - An attempt to show some ways creating a sprite from scratch.
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 * [[External Tutorials]]
 == See Also ==

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 === General Art and Computer Graphics ===
 * [[Using the Levels Adjustment]] - How to make scanned pencil drawings ''not'' look washed out.
 * [[Extending dynamic range]] - The Grooviest (so far) tutorial about extending the dynamic range of images and how this technique can be used to make better scans of pencil drawings.
 * [[Scanning with camera]] - How to transfer real-life art to computer using a digital camera instead of a scanner.
 * [[Art Supplies]] - What physical items you need to do larger cell-shaded art like that of Jetrel/Jormungadr/et al.
 * [[Inking With Pencils|Computer Inking a Sketch]] - Info from Jason Lutes on his portrait workflow.

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 * [[Create]]
 * [[EditingWesnoth]]
 * [[Project]]
 [[Category:Art Tutorials]]

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 * [[Mesilliac's Essay on Terrain Perspective]] - The geometry behind the perspective used for terrain tiles in Wesnoth.
 * [[Tiles Tutorial]] - Frame's tutorial describing the process of making terrain tiles in Wesnoth, and how they interact with adjacent tiles.
 * [[Turning Square Tiles into Hex]] - Nifty tricks for transforming square (or any rectangle) shaped seamless tiles into hexagon seamless tiles.
 * [[CastleTutorial|Castle Tutorial]] - A description of how Wesnoth's castle tiles work (needs updating, but useful nonetheless).

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 To edit these graphics, you'll need some program capable of creating PNG's - some of the programs in the following list are free, open-source software, and will do the job nicely: [[Art Programs]]
-If you need some inspiration, we have a (no longer maintained) [[GraphicLibrary|Graphics Library]] which collects art posted on the forum. You can use this for ideas, and as a scrap heap for different parts of unit images (a technique described [[Give Your Hero A Personality|here]]).
+[[Give Your Hero A Personality|Give Your Hero A Personality]]
 == Art Tutorials ==

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 * [[Scaling Digital Images]] - How to properly resize an image on a computer.
 * [[How to Shade]] - An attempt at tackling a very complicated topic.
 * [[Designing weapons and armour]] - Advice from zookeeper on designing realistic weapons for your characters.
 * [[Portrait Tutorial]] - A guide on how to draw unit/character portraits by Kitty.

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 * [[MultiHexTutorial|Multi-Hex Tiling Tutorial]] - A description of how multi-hex tiles work.
 * [[Editing Castles]] - Instructions for how to make/edit castles (and other corner-based terrains) using yobbo's GIMP script.
 These describe the system used to specify how terrains behave in game: