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Looking for LIE Tutorials

nabob21nabob21 Posts: 1,027
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Hello,

Can anyone recommend some tutorials on how to make LIE images for Genesis 8 figures?

Thanks in advance for any help.

nabob21

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,443

    What are you looking for? Making a LIE image is making a LIE image, what it is being applied to has no bearing on the method itself (though it does affect what maps should be used, of course).

  • nabob21nabob21 Posts: 1,027

    Hi Richard,

    I am looking for tutorials on how to make the LIE images so that I can make my own.

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    LIE image is just an image that is overlayed on top of an another image, there is no special procedure to create them.

  • nabob21nabob21 Posts: 1,027

    PerttiA,

    There appears to be masks involved with them to create transparent areas (for example in the case of make-up or tattoos) and that is something I don't know how to do. I guess that is the part that I am asking for a tutorial to help me with.

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Open the image you want to overlay with the LIE in Photoshop, GIMP, etc. Create a new layer and start painting on it. Once you are done, hide the underlying layer and save the image to a PNG with transparency preserved.

    In DS open the texture file in Layered Image Editor and import the LIE image on top of the original texture.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,443

    Assuming you are painting the makeup on a new layer in your image editor, load its transparency as a selection (most applications should let you do this), create a new layer, and with the selection active fill with white; invert the selection and fill with black. Save that layer as your mask, save the makeup layer as the colour, and you are done.

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    I still don't get the need for masks.

    Opened a G8F face texture in PS
    Copied the base layer to create another
    Selected everything on the new layer and cleared them away
    Started drawing on the layer
    Hid the underlying layer and saved the image as PNG

    In DS loaded G8F
    Opened the face texture in Layered Image Editor
    Created a new layer and imported the PNG

    Proof of concept attached

    LIE.JPG
    392 x 416 - 30K
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,443

    Reklying on the PNG alpha has, in the past, caused issues in some cases so using a separate mask image is possibly more robust. It's possible that the past issues have been wholly resolved and PNG alpha is now entirely safe, I'm just hesitant to rely on that - or, more to the point, to tell others to rely on it.

  • nabob21nabob21 Posts: 1,027

    Thanks for the help Richard and PerttiA. I will give this a try and see if I can get it to work for me.

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