Graphics

[Buster's Uncle]

Spent the last few hours making another Talent leaderhead...

[JarlWolf]

That looks like a certain somebody I know 

[Geo]

That just looks... wrong... somehow.
You sure a red face wouldn't appear better on the model in question?

[Buster's Uncle]

Why?  I spent some time making the face less red...

That looks like a certain somebody I know 

You know Buster's Daddy?  It kinda looks like him...

(He's Dr. Buster's Daddy now.)

[Buster's Uncle]

Bases15



9 structures adapted from GalCiv2, laid out to copy/paste into the .pcx of your next custom faction.

Bases are the most difficult aspect of a SMACX faction graphic to create, so it is hoped that these graphic goodie files will give beginners at faction modding a leg up.  See also the Portraits series, also in this section, and for info on art techniques and/or to communicate with BU and ask any questions, see the Graphics thread: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=1237.0  These are a lot of work to put together, so please be sure to credit me in the empty space of the .pcx.  Posting to let me know you found it useful would be okay, too.

Thanks to I Have No Name for the GC2 files I worked with.

[Sigma]

Rows 6-9 are pro-tier.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah - about half the GC2 files I have are small and don't blow up very well - I need to start skipping those, as they just take up space and make me look inept.

[JarlWolf]

Tier 6 im tempted to use as a replacement for my Valhallans factions, those look really space viking and I love it...

[Buster's Uncle]

Diplomacy Landscapes1



23 diplomacy landscapes, size/croped and scanlined to copy/paste as-is into the .pcx of your next custom faction.

Diplomacy landscapes are one of the easier aspects of a SMACX faction graphic to create -provided one hasn't anything terribly specific in mind- but it is hoped that these graphic goodie files will give beginners at faction modding a leg up - given a logo appropriate to the faction, all the elements of a faction graphic are available in AC2's Download section for anyone with elementary copy/paste skills and a graphics program that can handle .pcx files - a good eye/taste helps, too.  (See also the Bases and Portraits series.)

For info on art techniques and/or to communicate with BU and ask any questions, see the Graphics thread: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=1237.0  These are a lot of work to put together, so please be sure to credit me in the empty space of the .pcx.  Posting to let me know you found it useful would be okay, too.

[Buster's Uncle]

So I really enjoyed SMACing up gwilly, and while I was posting a news story today, I noticed that the boyfriend of the Ebola nurse in Maine had a great face:



So a few hours of right-brain mode later:



With this the final result:



Portraits7 is 1/4th done w/ no twinks so far, and all original work...

[Buster's Uncle]

In fact, I liked the look of the wrinkles on this incredibly Caucasian World Health Organization official I saw in an ebola story, but not the incredibly white part - for a lot of reasons, it's bad to make our future too white and male, so-

[Buster's Uncle]

-Speaking of which,

Benazir Bhutto


and Yulia Tymoshenko


-Respectively, the best-looking heads of state in the world when each lady was running a country, would make excellent leaderhead material.  Ideas about how to future them would be welcome.

I also found Brother Lal's brother, Rajendra Pachauri, who's the head of some climate thingy at the UN.  The beard streak was too awesome to pass up.


Him I can future by doing something weird with his collar - that doesn't work with women's fashions, and as I though of the two ladies because they're so attractive, I hate to paste shiny junk on their faces or make their eyes glow.

[Buster's Uncle]

I may have futured her enough, subtly - she's certainly otherwise ready to go.

[Buster's Uncle]

She always did look like she was from space, somehow - one of her nicknames is "Ukrainian Leia".

[Buster's Uncle]

Portraits3



Leaderheads are the most time-consuming aspect of a SMACX faction graphic, so in the same spirit as the Bases files, here are eight leaderheads, ready to copy/paste as-is into your next custom faction.  It is hoped that these graphic goodie files will give beginners at faction modding a leg up.  See also the Bases series, also in this section, and for info on art techniques and/or to communicate with BU and ask any questions, see the Graphics thread: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=1237.0

These portraits were a lot of work, but all I ask is that you credit me in the blank space of the .pcx you use one in.  Posting to let me know you found it useful would be okay, too.   Enjoy.