L4D Sprays Options

[MonkeyFiend]

Does anyone want anything in particular doing for L4D sprays??

Post here with ideas/images and I'll see what I can work up.

It'll save me taking the following image




And now in the style of goatse:

[Magik5]

i like this one:

[MonkeyFiend]

what? you want me to reproduce your lonely hearts advert?

look, it didn't help you find true love the first time round, so it probably won't work here either

(Also I did have dreadlocks many a year ago and boy, did I look like a twat )

[MonkeyFiend]

and just for that cheekyness have some of this....

(yep, it's magik6's L4D Spray )

[Magik5]

i no its 6's spray, because i did it for him.

you are serrrrrrrrrriously twisted.

[MonkeyFiend]

well thats the best compliment/insult I've had all day

[Magik5]

ill let u win this one, im too busy making content for my wesbite... finally got something that looks half decent?

well, half decent in the way that its one one notch up from the crap region.

so more like 1/11111111111111111111111111666666666666666666666666666th decent.

http://www.dancotton.co.uk

PLUG PLUG PLUG ZOMG LINKS etcetc.

[Magik6]

rofl at the edit spray

[Cobolt]

I want to make a spray, and you said to save it as some file format... but that conversation has run kicking and screaming from my mind XD A reminder would be appreciated

[Magik5]

targa file (.tga)

=]

[Cobolt]

Ok, a choice of two:
A Pokemon/Zombie theme (looked rubbish with seethrough bg) And good old Portal theme XD

Votes?

[Lawpf2001]

u need vtf edit

[MonkeyFiend]

I personally like the first one - although I love portal, it's probably a little subtle for the L4D crowd.

It also makes me want a coffee

The only points to mention are max image dimensions for the sprays are 256x256 pixels, so the first one will need adjusting.
You can save the files as targa (.tga) or Valve Texture Format (.vtf)

I usually save them as .PNG for use in photoshop etc., then convert them in vtfedit (as lawpf mentions)

I'm going to have a play with my graphics tablet with that first one (back in about 2 minutes)

[Lawpf2001]

i like mine although i did steal it off some guy

[MonkeyFiend]

ok, I had a little mess around. I've saved the format as .png if you want to remove/change any of the layers (and by this I'll assume my badly penned blood, teeth, eye can be removed )



Click here and save: .PNG format

I've also stuck the above file as targa and vtf, for direct import into the game:

Click here and save: .TGA format
Click here and save: .VTF format

[MonkeyFiend]

A wee, you say??

[Lawpf2001]

ur sucha twat but i like it

sigged!

[Cobolt]

Woooo, Monkey, I like! XD I'll have that as my spray, if it can be arranged. I'm off now, so you'll have to tell me how to use it tomorrow.

[MonkeyFiend]

no problem.

Save the file above (probably best using the VTF) to somewhere where you can find it again.

When in game, click on 'options', 'multiplayer options' click 'import spray'

Navigate to wherever you saved that file.

Cheers,

Monkey

p.s. Sprays are loaded at beginning of a round, so you can't change them halfway through

[Magik5]

i dont see the advantage in the vtf format, just another bit of software to install ;p

tga ftw

[MonkeyFiend]

tga 280k = vtf 80k

also if you start any mapping then you'll become oh so familiar with good old vtf

[Magik5]

lol thats a big diff for web, but for locally? meh.

i guess vtf is just a way for valve to protect their textures a little more...

[MonkeyFiend]

locally? Now there was me thinking you could see my sprays?

[Cobolt]

Alrighty, it's saved (went with .tga for simplicity) and put into L4D XD
I'll try it out during our next game.

[fido77]

i think they all look good!!!

[Magik5]

does my game not cache your spray locallywhen the game starts?

how many bits/bytes is uploaded/downloaded during the game ? whats another 200kb at the beginning...

but i see your point.

[Magik6]

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

What a geek thread

[Cabletwitch]

Hmmm, what kind of spray would suit me, ya think? Any replies by 5 and 6 are automagically discounted, being as they are immense turdburglers who will undoubtedly try to derail this thread now with obscene suggestionsc

[Magik5]

a spilled milkshake.

[Magik6]

turdburglers

Stop watching south park all the time you pillow biter

[MonkeyFiend]

Hmmm, what kind of spray would suit me, ya think? Any replies by 5 and 6 are automagically discounted, being as they are immense turdburglers who will undoubtedly try to derail this thread now with obscene suggestionsc

Well you need to suggest something - anything! a theme or something similar. If you as what sort of spray would suit me then I'd probably produce something surreal like this..

brb, need 2 minutes...

[Edit: ok here we go ]



...


Without some sort of initial idea, we'll end up just churning out surreal weirdness.

At least we didn't produce Clint Eastwood shaking a giraffe

[MonkeyFiend]

...At least we didn't produce Clint Eastwood shaking a giraffe

dammit..

[Magik6]

rofl

[fido77]

lol. i need one too.

[Magik5]

[Robthemerciless]

how do i post a pic? i know u press the pic button but http what?

[Robthemerciless]

what a noob i know

[Robthemerciless]

Gimp 2.6 is good for making sprays! Great software! youtube show u everything!

[Magik5]

gimps linux's open source version of photoshop? been meaning to have a play with it

[MonkeyFiend]

no, I suspect he means he's got a gimp in his wardrobe. Occasionally he lets him out and gets him to make artistic drawings

never been a fan of gimp (the software) even with the opensource fanboys beatin gmy door down.

if you want to post a pic wrap the location of the image in

CODE

[img] and [/img] tags

e.g.

if the image is http://sneakymonkeys.com/cats.gif

then to post it in the forums you use

[img]http://sneakymonkeys.com/cats.gif[/img]

[Magik6]

[Robthemerciless]

lol fags

[Robthemerciless]

what u talking about monkey ur the one that gave it to me!

[Cobolt]

Hehe, how about this:

[Robthemerciless]

no reply from 5 or 6? interesting

[MonkeyFiend]

hmm a pyramid scheme... where do I sign up?