terrorfromtheswamp: A black rock on top of a facedown playing card. Twelve moons in various phases are painted around the outside of the rock. In the center is a large blood moon and a bronze equal armed cross with a dot in each corner. (Default)
2019-01-04 08:46 am
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Gimping Along

Okay. Maybe now that I’ve been a cry baby I can do something useful. Ignore me while I post weird shit about my photo-Gimp transition. I’m going to make some test files for bloodlines and see how it goes.

Copying, pasting, and working with layers is a pain. Yep. Just as clunky as I remember it. I can’t hit delete to delete layers. Wonderful. Everything is going to take twice as long with this relic. If I was just painting this would be easier but anything more complicated than a single layer painting is going take forever.

At least it supports TGA. Not a lot of programs do. Oh look at those hideously beautiful 2004 pixels.

Edit.
Now I need a suitable shirt and a body. I really would prefer a skinny person for this given how skeletal the nosferatu models are but I imagine my body will do. I’m going to change so much about this texture anyway.

Oh wow. The clone tool is not working for me right now. I can’t tell if I suck or it sucks but I guess I’ll just do what I did before I knew how to use it.

Resizing is okay. It’s a little weird but it works. I miss the integrated move and scale tools but I can see how this would be easier to code and the shortcuts help make it a smoother switch.
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terrorfromtheswamp: A black rock on top of a facedown playing card. Twelve moons in various phases are painted around the outside of the rock. In the center is a large blood moon and a bronze equal armed cross with a dot in each corner. (Default)
2019-01-04 08:14 am
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The Death of Photoshop and Gimp Hell

Self pity and venting ahead.

Well, the worst has happened regarding moding tools and I lost my copy of photoshop. I cannot make you feel how incredibly this sucks. Now I have no choice but to learn to use Gimp. It’s probably a fine program and it can probably do what I need but that doesn’t really matter right now because I don’t know to use it.

My skill as an artist and moder just got set from intermediate to absolute zero. I can’t do shit. I know I should sit down and just learn it, it probably won’t even take that long, but I’m too miserable and depressed right now (Also I’ve never had great luck with tutorials).I just want it to be easy and it can’t be. So I think I’ll just wallow in self pity for a while.

The worst thing is, even if I get good at it I’m not sure the files I export will be compatible with games and other moding tools. Last time I used Gimp the codex it uses fucked up all my textures and made them unusable. And maybe there’s a way to solve that but that’s another really time consuming thing to try to do in addition to learning basic shit.

There is a certain amount of legitimacy to my feelings but that’s not all that’s happening here. My stupid depression brain is telling me I’ll never be happy again and there’s actually no way for me to feel better or act more mature right now. I wish there was because I can’t fix this when I’m upset because I’ll probably have a melt down.
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