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I think it will be possible to find existing photos of the bridge and other parts in straight on, and then edit them a little to make them coherent. It would look odd to have parts that should look similar in tone, like the control plate and the bridge, have a different lighting and a slightly different hue.

I'll have a look and see what I can find.

DanHeron wrote:http://imgboot.com/images/DanHeron/mustangbuilder2.swf

The actual size isnt full screen... it just stretches it too full screen for some reason.



I found a site that hosts .swf images! woop!

It stretches because that's what browsers are supposed to do with direct links to swf files.

James wrote:I think it will be possible to find existing photos of the bridge and other parts in straight on, and then edit them a little to make them coherent. It would look odd to have parts that should look similar in tone, like the control plate and the bridge, have a different lighting and a slightly different hue.

I'll have a look and see what I can find.

Yeah, having all the chrome parts as actual photos would make it look a lot more realistic. The fender site has quite big good quality photos, all taken straight on. Could take parts from those photos?

I tried to take some from the site but they have nasty jpg compression artifacts when you look closer.

This is a pretty good forward shot for real photo dressing room. someone with skills could mod it for all colours surely.


It was a lefty at first and I flipped hence the backwards decal.

That reminds me we should have lefty option really for the freaks.

FUCK YOU HURB. I HOPE YOU SWALLOW A HUMBUCKER.

euan wrote:FUCK YOU HURB. I HOPE YOU SWALLOW A HUMBUCKER.

you knows I loves you southpaw.

EMG

cool. I took some from the Fender site and photoshoped on a bridge and control plate:




That looks better!

A lot of this is just going to be photoshop donkey work. I'm not claiming to be very good at it, but I can do bits. I just did a bit of a botch job on this (click for link) turning it into this. Oddly the bits that look bad are on the original pic. I'll see if I can find an old style pearl guard to do.

James wrote:A lot of this is just going to be photoshop donkey work. I'm not claiming to be very good at it, but I can do bits. I just did a bit of a botch job on this (click for link) turning it into this. Oddly the bits that look bad are on the original pic. I'll see if I can find an old style pearl guard to do.

Man thats perfect! How do you get images with transparent backgrounds?

That one just has a black background. You can use photoshop to delete the background then save it as something other than a jpg to keep it that way. png i think is best for that.

Hurb's pic could do if you wanna make it a bit more photorealistic:



Colours would be harder, you could have like a base colour then just have a layer of shadowing & highlights that's on all the time.

Can't you just take the photo body and reduce it to a bump map? Can Flash handle bumpmaps and lighting?

James wrote:That one just has a black background. You can use photoshop to delete the background then save it as something other than a jpg to keep it that way. png i think is best for that.

Ok cool.

Heres my plan! :

The body, neck and headstock will be in a vector style so I can easily change colours and stuff. Except when its not a solid colour, e.g sunburst / natural.

Pickguard will be a vector style unless it is tort, or pearl in which case a photo will be used.

The bridge will be a realistic photo in a fixed position but you will be able to change the style by clicking left and right arrows to change it. Mustang, Duosonic, etc.

The control plate will be a photo fixed with the knobs photoshopped out.

The knobs, pickups and other bits will be realistic and will be drag n dropped into desired position.

Hopefully this will make it look slightly more realistic.

Zaphod wrote:Hurb's pic could do if you wanna make it a bit more photorealistic:



Colours would be harder, you could have like a base colour then just have a layer of shadowing & highlights that's on all the time.

This is the way it should be done. dont half arse shortscale!

I lvoe purple sparkle, but seriously, fuck some j. mascis dickslobbler.

OK I had a quick mess in ps and ruffley cut out the shape. once I do this properly with colour behind the pickguard so we can chnge things if we have to do each colour individually we should so it looks cool.


fiesta red



dakotared



rough bass colour to change

Just make a faek reflection layer that you can put over faek colors to simulate photo?

That is a cool way of doing it. If we got a good photo of a blank body we could change the hue and save loads of different coloured versions - getting them as close as possible to fender colours. Then we can do pickguards and stuff seperately on new layers.