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[Rickenslacker]

I don't read many long posts, but when they're as illuminating as henery's I had to. Good shit.

OT, but I know a few of you are graphic designers/are better at Photoshop/Illustrator than I am. Is there a way to extrude a transparent layer from an object? What I've been doing is using the eraser to a poor effect.

As an example, this is what I'm going for:


What I want to know is if there is an effect that does something like this(pardon my laziness with the curve of the P) and covers anything below it:

In PS you can make a selection on the P then go to (using CS2 here so bear with me if it's changed) select > modify > expand to do exactly what you're illustrating in that second image. Is this how you want the result to be?

 

[User 73706]

OT, but I know a few of you are graphic designers/are better at Photoshop/Illustrator than I am. Is there a way to extrude a transparent layer from an object? What I've been doing is using the eraser to a poor effect.

As an example, this is what I'm going for:


What I want to know is if there is an effect that does something like this(pardon my laziness with the curve of the P) and covers anything below it:

I'm actually working in illustrator right now. What I'd do is:

-Duplicate the "P" and put it behind the real one
-Go to edit -> transform -> scale and increase it to approximately 110% or so
-Lock the original "P" layer
-Select everything in that general region - the big background "P" and anything that may be going inside it
-Make sure the P is at the very bottom.
-Go to Window -> Pathfinder and open that little window up.
-With everything still selected, hit "Minus Front," which is the second option from the left on the top row.

Let me know how that goes.

 

[Karl2177]

I don't read many long posts, but when they're as illuminating as henery's I had to. Good shit.

In PS you can make a selection on the P then go to (using CS2 here so bear with me if it's changed) select > modify > expand to do exactly what you're illustrating in that second image. Is this how you want the result to be?

http://i.imgur.com/zs7zncS.png[img][/QUOTE]

Yes, yes. Thank you.

 

[senador]

Tuck yeah it is.

Really good post though. Hit the nail right on the head.

Duck you. I'm leaving it.

 

[Blueblur1]

So according to Halo Charts, Halo 4's population has been under 50k since March 18th. I wonder if it'll jump past 50k for a few days next week once the maps hit.

Edit: Henery got The Ghaleon Bump™.

 

[GhaleonEB]

The Henery: https://twitter.com/HaloWaypoint/status/319260273846411265

 

[senador]

So according to Halo Charts, Halo 4's population has been under 50k since March 18th. I wonder if it'll jump past 50k for a few days next week once the maps hit.

Edit: Henery got The Ghaleon Bump™.

I still haven't downloaded the previous pack even though I got the LE. :/

 

[Ghazi]

The Henery: https://twitter.com/HaloWaypoint/status/319260273846411265

Holy shit, hopefully they actually take this into account and it puts them on the right path. Henery, you might've have just saved Halo.

 

[Poker Face]

So according to Halo Charts, Halo 4's population has been under 50k since March 18th. I wonder if it'll jump past 50k for a few days next week once the maps hit.

Edit: Henery got The Ghaleon Bump™.

I don't think it will. None of the map packs have helped the population in a significant way.

The Henery: https://twitter.com/HaloWaypoint/status/319260273846411265

 

[Spawnling]

The Henery: https://twitter.com/HaloWaypoint/status/319260273846411265

He walks on water.

 

[Twilight Gap]

Boom.

I'll think about it. I don't like Halo 4's forge palette so we'll see.

 

[Blueblur1]

He walks on water.

I just got this. lol

 

[Overdoziz]

Holy shit, hopefully they actually take this into account and it puts them on the right path. Henery, you might've have just saved Halo.

eeeeehhhh

 

[Duji]

The Henery: https://twitter.com/HaloWaypoint/status/319260273846411265

Thanks so much for doing that.

The Henery be saving Halo.

 

[xxjuicesxx]

So according to Halo Charts, Halo 4's population has been under 50k since March 18th. I wonder if it'll jump past 50k for a few days next week once the maps hit.

Edit: Henery got The Ghaleon Bump™.

I dont think so, none of the other ones have and not even a free map gave a boost.

 

[Computron]

OT, but I know a few of you are graphic designers/are better at Photoshop/Illustrator than I am. Is there a way to extrude a transparent layer from an object? What I've been doing is using the eraser to a poor effect.

As an example, this is what I'm going for:


What I want to know is if there is an effect that does something like this(pardon my laziness with the curve of the P) and covers anything below it:

Not sure if this is what you want, but masking would be one easy way to go about doing that if you're working in Photoshop.



I screencapped a quick .GIF with LICEcap of one way I might do it, and it looks like so:

The part where I load the selection of the "P" text layer's transparency can be faster done by Ctrl+LeftClicking the text layer's icon.
But CTRL+clicking doesn't show in the .GIF, so thats another way of doing it.


Hope that makes sense.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Thanks so much for doing that.

The Henery be saving Halo.

Props to whoever runs that Twitter handle (Jessica?) for responding and sending the link out to a larger audience. It was a great post and I'm glad folks read it.

 

[MaximumFlipFlop]

Halo 5s gonna have prone right?

 

[heckfu]

Lol a PR response taken seriously.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Lol a PR response taken seriously.

I think it's a good thing when when good, constructively critical posts get acknowledged. I don't really understand mocking it. That seems strange to me.

 

[heckfu]

I think it's a good thing when when good, constructively critical posts get acknowledged. I don't really understand mocking it. That seems strange to me.

Don't understand mocking what? They sent back a pretty standard response as they do with most things like that I'm sure.

 

[Ramirez]

"Thanks, we'll take a look"

 

[EagleBurnn]

Don't understand mocking what? They sent back a pretty standard response as they do with most things like that I'm sure.

I think we're just glad they at least acknowledged it.

 

[xxjuicesxx]

I think that we should acknowledge that while HaloGAF has subsets and players of all kind we have never unanimously agreed so much about one thing, and that is that Halo 4 is not a good Halo game and the next game needs a lot more focus.

Its not even a bad game, if it had some other name it would probably be pretty well accepted. However its not a Halo.

 

[User 73706]

Not sure if this is what you want, but masking would be one easy way to go about doing that if you're working in Photoshop.



I screencapped a quick .GIF with LICEcap of one way I might do it, and it looks like so:

Hope that makes sense.

dat ending

 

[EagleBurnn]

Well technically that is rebooting. Maybe you should have been more specific next time. He was already listening to you! Wahrer, you ruined Halo.

 

[Karl2177]

I'm using Photoshop right now, but I have Illustrator if I needed to use it, Wahrer.

Not sure if this is what you want, but masking would be one easy way to go about doing that if you're working in Photoshop.



I screencapped a quick .GIF with LICEcap of one way I might do it, and it looks like so:

http://i.minus.com/igQAUqHQS8NBX.gif[IMG]


Hope that makes sense.[/QUOTE]

This works great. Thanks! Ending was unexpected.

 

[Korosenai]

Don't understand mocking what? They sent back a pretty standard response as they do with most things like that I'm sure.

They may not read it, but they replied to his tweet and they have a lot of followers that might read it as well. Good exposure.

 

[heckfu]

They may not read it, but they replied to his tweet and they have a lot of followers that might read it as well. Good exposure.

lol what goes does it do if they (you know, the people who are in charge of decisions) don't read it? I'm not arguing how good of a post it is I'm just saying everyone here is applauding a very standard response.

If they read it and change things then more power to them, but it looked more like community relations than anything else to me.

 

[User 73706]

LICEcap is officially the best thing ever.

 

[Ramirez]

lol what goes does it do if they (you know, the people who are in charge of decisions) don't read it? I'm not arguing how good of a post it is I'm just saying everyone here is applauding a very standard response.

If they read it and change things then more power to them, but it looked more like community relations than anything else to me.

 

[Tashi]

Gotta agree with Heckfu but I do know that a lot of feedback, including this very fucking thread (sorry) is read by 343. Jess or whoever behind that Twitter account replying to Ghaleon's tweet isn't a, "OMG 343 is listening to us now!" moment.

AKA make your criticisms readable.

 

[Ghazi]

LICEcap is officially the best thing ever.

I must know how you did this. I want to make one with my avatar since I have a larger image of it.

Spoiler

I have no idea how to use photoshop and other editing progarms

 

[Korosenai]

I must know how you did this. I want to make one with my avatar since I have a larger image of it.

Spoiler

I have no idea how to use photoshop and other editing progarms

It's actually a website that lets you do it easily but I don't know what it's called.

 

[User 73706]

 

[GrizzNKev]

Gotta agree with Heckfu but I do know that a lot of feedback, including this very fucking thread (sorry) is read by 343. Jess or whoever behind that Twitter account replying to Ghaleon's tweet isn't a, "OMG 343 is listening to us now!" moment.

AKA make your criticisms readable.

Like was said before, I think most of us here have written a post or few like that. I know I started posting in HaloGAF right after I did one about how loadouts and ordnance ruin balance in a gaming side Halo 4 thread and Karl backed me up.

I've done at least one other one in one of these OTs about Reach vs. 4. We've all had our moments but it gets tiring when you wait months for progress and get none.

I think I said before, it was very revealing that it took hiring an MLG player for us to get a gametype that vaguely resembled what we like about Halo.

 

[Booties]

It's a reply to make us feel good and leave them alone. It takes over six months to see real change as they've made painfully apparent to us already. By then we will all have ps4 and gaming rigs.

 

[Bregmann Roche]

People who bought or rented Halo 4 to see if it was normal again have disappeared. They won't be back five months from launch when it's announced in a corner of an internet forum that Team Throwdown, a normal-ish Halo playlist is coming to Halo 4! After that opening week they've made their mind up and you've lost them forever.

This describes me perfectly and that was an all-time greatest post.

 

[Twilight Gap]

I think I said before, it was very revealing that it took hiring an MLG player for us to get a gametype that vaguely resembled what we like about Halo.

I like Bravo a lot and I'm glad he got that position. He deserved it, especially after his coverage of Halo 4.

 

[Computron]

LICEcap is officially the best thing ever.

Well, something like that would actually probably be easier to do in photoshop entirely and would result in better compression, less dropped frames (Non of that jerky motion) and better color retention.

On the other hand, when I am semi-often tasked with helping people with software or bug write-ups, (Which often have very little motion, very few colors and a handful of other ".GIF compression convenient" aspects) I find its much faster to just screencap the a .GIF than to write up all the specifics.

But yea, LICEcap is amazing. It does a great job with compression (Which I sometimes can't even match in PS) and its really lightweight.

OK, lets not go crazy now...

 

[User 73706]

Well, something like that would actually probably be easier to do in photoshop entirely and would result in better compression, less dropped frames (Non of that jerky motion) and better color retention.

On the other hand, when I am semi-often tasked with helping people with software or bug write-ups, (Which often have very little motion, very few colors and a handful of other ".GIF compression convenient" aspects) I find its much faster to just screencap the a .GIF than to write up all the specifics.

But yea, LICEcap is amazing. It does a great job with compression (Which I sometimes can't even match in PS) and its really lightweight.

Well yeah, I have enough experience keyframing to know it'd look better, it was just a quick test. The fact that it's live means that it's amazing for something like capturing youtube videos, though. For example:

 

[StalkerUKCG]

No one at 343i is paying any attention to that post by Henery. Its going to be read and shelved straight away. They have had months to make significant changes to Halo 4 and the most we have is a flat forge map and a couple of gametypes that are half way to want people want.

Vast majority of the maps still blow and this can't change. No legacy map pack is going to come and even if it did no one is buying it so they can play infinity slayer on lockout.
Sprint is staying and for some its seen as a lesser evil but personally I think its one of the main problems at this point

Its not that Henery's post is going to fall on deaf ears its that its falling on ears that simply don't want to implement the changes that the community wants because its clearly not inline with the vision of 343i.

Core Halo 4 is great. stripe away the garbage intended to bring in a new crowd and you have possibly the best Halo game to date. Play one of those modded zero sprint gametypes with actual respawn times and weapons on map on haven and its amazing.

Nothing is saving Halo 4 at this point Id rather they just said "fuck it we goofed" worked on bringing Halo 2 MP out with snazzy HD content for the 10th anniversary and built Halo 5 to be the definitive Halo title.

In reality the most likely scenario is we get a Halo 2 map pack for Halo 4. HD Halo 2 campaign and Halo 5 that basically Halo 4 with some new guns and AA's

 

[Karl2177]

Well yeah, I have enough experience keyframing to know it'd look better, it was just a quick test. The fact that it's live means that it's amazing for something like capturing youtube videos, though. For example:

http://i.imgur.com/ZYTyBKk.gif[IMG][/URL][/QUOTE]

Or you could just use JDownloader or something similar to download the video and import the frames into Photoshop. Then you don't have to worry about Flash randomly dropping frames.

 

[Computron]

^Fuck yea, JDownloader.

Well yeah, I have enough experience keyframing to know it'd look better, it was just a quick test. The fact that it's live means that it's amazing for something like capturing youtube videos, though. For example:[/URL]

Youtube downloader extension (Or ^JD) + Custom Photoshop Droplet + "Send-to webhost/min.us" shell extension = .GIF Machine

 

[EagleBurnn]

Core Halo 4 is great. stripe away the garbage intended to bring in a new crowd and you have possibly the best Halo game to date. Play one of those modded zero sprint gametypes with actual respawn times and weapons on map on haven and its amazing.

This is what frustrates me to no end. The problems in Halo 4 are much easier to fix than the ones in Reach, yet here we are.

 

[Twilight Gap]

Well yeah, I have enough experience keyframing to know it'd look better, it was just a quick test. The fact that it's live means that it's amazing for something like capturing youtube videos, though. For example:

Time to make more reaction gifs.

No one at 343i is paying any attention to that post by Henery. Its going to be read and shelved straight away. They have had months to make significant changes to Halo 4 and the most we have is a flat forge map and a couple of gametypes that are half way to want people want.

Vast majority of the maps still blow and this can't change. No legacy map pack is going to come and even if it did no one is buying it so they can play infinity slayer on lockout.
Sprint is staying and for some its seen as a lesser evil but personally I think its one of the main problems at this point

Its not that Henery's post is going to fall on deaf ears its that its falling on ears that simply don't want to implement the changes that the community wants because its clearly not inline with the vision of 343i.

Core Halo 4 is great. stripe away the garbage intended to bring in a new crowd and you have possibly the best Halo game to date. Play one of those modded zero sprint gametypes with actual respawn times and weapons on map on haven and its amazing.

Nothing is saving Halo 4 at this point Id rather they just said "fuck it we goofed" worked on bringing Halo 2 MP out with snazzy HD content for the 10th anniversary and built Halo 5 to be the definitive Halo title.

In reality the most likely scenario is we get a Halo 2 map pack for Halo 4. HD Halo 2 campaign and Halo 5 that basically Halo 4 with some new guns and AA's

This is what frustrates me to no end. The problems in Halo 4 are much easier to fix than the ones in Reach, yet here we are.

Pride is the greatest sin.

 

[Tashi]

Like was said before, I think most of us here have written a post or few like that. I know I started posting in HaloGAF right after I did one about how loadouts and ordnance ruin balance in a gaming side Halo 4 thread and Karl backed me up.

I've done at least one other one in one of these OTs about Reach vs. 4. We've all had our moments but it gets tiring when you wait months for progress and get none.

I think I said before, it was very revealing that it took hiring an MLG player for us to get a gametype that vaguely resembled what we like about Halo.

Well you have to be realistic about it all. HaloGAF is just a fraction of all feedback 343 gets. And feedback includes forum posts, tweets, articles, videos, podcasts, live streams and then data they get in game. And just because they see it, that doesn't mean they will or even can act on it. Also, these things don't happen overnight.

And if when Halo 5 is announced and 343 says, "we listened to all the feedback and here's Halo 5" and it's actually based on the feedback that was gathered, then what?

 

[GrizzNKev]

Nothing is saving Halo 4 at this point Id rather they just said "fuck it we goofed" worked on bringing Halo 2 MP out with snazzy HD content for the 10th anniversary and built Halo 5 to be the definitive Halo title.

This much would satisfy me. As long as they could convince me they were going in the right direction.

As of right now I've given up XBL and Xbox gaming in general because Halo was pretty much my only reason to have the console. Halo 4 was the first Xbox 360 game I bought since Halo Reach and once I was done with that I let my Live expire. I have no intention to buy the new Xbox until I find an exclusive I'm actually excited about, and being free from the shackles of XBL Gold sure is nice. Makes PS+ look pretty compelling.

Well you have to be realistic about it all. HaloGAF is just a fraction of all feedback 343 gets. And feedback includes forum posts, tweets, articles, videos, podcasts, live streams and then data they get in game. And just because they see it, that doesn't mean they will or even can act on it. Also, these things don't happen overnight.

And if when Halo 5 is announced and 343 says, "we listened to all the feedback and here's Halo 5" and it's actually based on the feedback that was gathered, then what?

Pretty much what I just said. I'm a Halo fanboy through and through, and even though I'm incredibly excited about what Destiny might bring I'm not just going to ignore what the future of Halo holds. If Destiny doesn't end up on PC, Halo 5 the deciding factor in whether I'm getting a PS4 or Xbox 720.

If it's anything like Halo 4, I'm not interested.

 

[Fuchsdh]

This hud looks nice, anyone agree?

Too much stuff going on. I think the Halo 4 multi HUD is about as busy as I'd ever want a HUD, but I much prefer Halo 3's. There were the lines that gave you the impression of being inside a helmet, but they weren't in your face.

 

[GhaleonEB]

lol what goes does it do if they (you know, the people who are in charge of decisions) don't read it? I'm not arguing how good of a post it is I'm just saying everyone here is applauding a very standard response.

If they read it and change things then more power to them, but it looked more like community relations than anything else to me.

It's my nature to be a cynical bastard, but I also have a pretty wide reasonable streak. I see the exchange as going like this:

The Henery: *great post*

Ghaleon: Hey 343, please read this. *links great post from The Henery*

343: Okay, thanks.

Ghaleon: Cool, thanks.

Heckfu: lol *flings poo*

I'm not expecting anything other than someone at 343 to read it. That's all I was hoping for. I think that's all you can reasonably expect from a forum post. I'm glad they acknowledged the post and replied in a public way that put a lot of eyes from the community on it. I didn't expect a fucking miracle from it. Geez.