Shyguy
10-18-2004, 8:14 PM
Man I wish there was a way to show off my latest accomplishment?
I was playing with GTRipple, & was getting idea's for cool desktop patterns, well It came to me, If I good find a pic of a Star Trek Romulan or Klingon ship decloaking, & run GT ripple & make just the ship ripple. Well I couldn't find a pic like that, but I did find one that was 1024x768 & was a captured image of a Romulan Warbird from Star Trek: The Next Generation, so I DL it & set it as my desktop background ran GTripple & went to their site to learn how to use the ripple region mask feature, well figured it out, its sort of like Bluescreen/Greenscreen technology in movies, by using a pic editing program, MSpaint will suffice & is default, but you can select others on your PC like PS & the like, anyways, you outline & fill in the regions on the image with a specific color, that you want to ripple & save the image & then GTripple will only ripple that region mask.
So I basically outlined the Warbird, with a little bit of outerspace around it to ripple too. Now on my desktop sits a giant Romulan Warbird, that looks like it just decloaked, I set the ripple to look as close as I could. I only wish I was talented enough to use PS to superimpose the Warbird over a starfield with about 50-70% transparency, to get the more realistic effect. then run GTripple & use a region mask like above.
I just wish I could somehow record a "live" vid or something of my desktop to show off.
It looks so damn cool now!!!:)
I was playing with GTRipple, & was getting idea's for cool desktop patterns, well It came to me, If I good find a pic of a Star Trek Romulan or Klingon ship decloaking, & run GT ripple & make just the ship ripple. Well I couldn't find a pic like that, but I did find one that was 1024x768 & was a captured image of a Romulan Warbird from Star Trek: The Next Generation, so I DL it & set it as my desktop background ran GTripple & went to their site to learn how to use the ripple region mask feature, well figured it out, its sort of like Bluescreen/Greenscreen technology in movies, by using a pic editing program, MSpaint will suffice & is default, but you can select others on your PC like PS & the like, anyways, you outline & fill in the regions on the image with a specific color, that you want to ripple & save the image & then GTripple will only ripple that region mask.
So I basically outlined the Warbird, with a little bit of outerspace around it to ripple too. Now on my desktop sits a giant Romulan Warbird, that looks like it just decloaked, I set the ripple to look as close as I could. I only wish I was talented enough to use PS to superimpose the Warbird over a starfield with about 50-70% transparency, to get the more realistic effect. then run GTripple & use a region mask like above.
I just wish I could somehow record a "live" vid or something of my desktop to show off.
It looks so damn cool now!!!:)