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« on: May 19, 2005, 01:39:26 PM »
Drac its amazing but my questions is how'd u do it? what did u use?
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« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2005, 02:03:08 PM »
Thank you I'm mostly proud of 'em.

Well that's a loaded question.

Well I used the game, PhotoShop, ImageReady, ACDsee and FrontPage 2003.

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Well firsly I took BMP (shift+F12) screenshots of all the various in game ability tree menus without any abilities loaded (used an alternate character).  Then I took these menus and edited them to move the title more to the left and delete 'decription' part of the menu and crop out the rest of the image to get the base complete blank menu.

Before this I went throught and took a screenshot of every single in game popup ability descript (you know the one that shows up when you hover over it).  I went throught the hundreds of these and crop them to just the descriptions for ease of navigation.

I then had to create the detailed complete ability menus (colored abilities) so I used PhotoShop to import the appropriate icon from the FanSite kit.  This I used the scriptions in order so I could get the right ability.  I found some weren't even in the FanSite Kit so had to go back and get BMP versions of the ingame icons and create my own icons.  Some of the descriptions are the same in the file names so were a challlenge to find at times.

I then took that complete layered menu and used ImageReady to create image slices for each of the icon areas (as separate images are required for rollover effects).  Then exported the sliced images into a complete base HTML page which had the configuration and details for the image map of the menu.   Then took the HTML code for these and incorporated them into the base design for the whole guide which is need to have them function correctly in a PHP-Nuke design.  This included the blank description image.

Took the blank description image made the descriptions from the 100's of screenshots I had taken.  Taking the icon from the menu and re-typing out all the ability description and formating it to fit in the image.  Did them in sections and in menu order for ease of filling.

Then in FrontPage configured the rollover and out effect for each menu and icon.  Then configured the linked between each menu so it could be navigated correctly.

Uploaded all the images and HTML pages and there you have it.  A slgihtly truncated run down of how and what I did and used.
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« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2005, 02:07:30 PM »
wow 8O
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« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2005, 09:38:57 PM »
Yeah ... surprised I actually finished it.
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