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#1 Post by Rosstin »

What would you guys recommend as a good filter to create a night scene? I have this scene of a snowy castle in partial light and I want to put a filter over it to make it nighttime. Accomplishing this with Photoshop would be okay, although a Ren'Py filter would be preferable to save space. Anyone tried this?

My artist Meagan Trott is really amazing but if I can reduce her workload by finding a way to have her make less images, I'd like to do it.

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#2 Post by SundownKid »

You can always use this: http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... atrix.tint

Also in combination with saturation and brightness.

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#3 Post by Rosstin »

I was looking at that. That's the thing that does what I want to do? I'll mess with it and share once I've figured out how to use it.
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#4 Post by SundownKid »

The best way to make a night scene is still Photoshop. Since you would have to paint over the image to make it truly night-like rather than throw a filter over it. But a filter is a decent shortcut.

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#5 Post by mugenjohncel »

Photoshop is still the best way to do this (in your case)...

It's actually easy but you will have to ask your BG artist to separate the sky from the terrain. Make everything except the sky blue as night and put an appropriate night sky in the background... :mrgreen:

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Not really good looking but this should do the trick :)

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#6 Post by Rosstin »

OK, thanks for the tips guys. Meagan always sends me the PSDs so it shouldn't be hard for me to adjust the values for the various layers. Uncle, what sliders do you like to use for night?
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#7 Post by inarizushi »

I found this did the trick as a night filter:

image bg ruin_path_night = im.MatrixColor("img/bg/ruin_path.png",
im.matrix.tint(0.5,0.5,0.6)
* im.matrix.brightness(-0.2))

You might need to tweak it a bit though, and I think having sources of light like fires or lanterns would really sell the idea that it's night time. I wonder if that could be on another layer on top of your background like a composite image?

As a programmer and a lazy artist, I like how you're trying to save your artist's time with fun programming tricks. :)

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#8 Post by Snowflower »

mugenjohncel wrote:Photoshop is still the best way to do this (in your case)...

It's actually easy but you will have to ask your BG artist to separate the sky from the terrain. Make everything except the sky blue as night and put an appropriate night sky in the background... :mrgreen:

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#9 Post by Rosstin »

Wow! That im.Matrix example is exactly what I needed!! Thank you so much!
inarizushi wrote:I found this did the trick as a night filter:

image bg ruin_path_night = im.MatrixColor("img/bg/ruin_path.png",
im.matrix.tint(0.5,0.5,0.6)
* im.matrix.brightness(-0.2))

You might need to tweak it a bit though, and I think having sources of light like fires or lanterns would really sell the idea that it's night time. I wonder if that could be on another layer on top of your background like a composite image?

As a programmer and a lazy artist, I like how you're trying to save your artist's time with fun programming tricks. :)
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#10 Post by Rosstin »

asterazul wrote:Wow! That im.Matrix example is exactly what I needed!! Thank you so much!
inarizushi wrote:I found this did the trick as a night filter:

image bg ruin_path_night = im.MatrixColor("img/bg/ruin_path.png",
im.matrix.tint(0.5,0.5,0.6)
* im.matrix.brightness(-0.2))

You might need to tweak it a bit though, and I think having sources of light like fires or lanterns would really sell the idea that it's night time. I wonder if that could be on another layer on top of your background like a composite image?

As a programmer and a lazy artist, I like how you're trying to save your artist's time with fun programming tricks. :)
Gonna try this now.

F---ing awesome, Inarizushi.

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#11 Post by inarizushi »

That looks great! Glad I could help. :)

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#12 Post by pineapplepocky »

one extra trick after doing background is to change the tint of the characters on screen, or even re-shade it so it looks like the shadows are tinted the same as the background (so if it's dark, then their shadows are more purple)

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#13 Post by Jod »

As a programmer and a lazy artist, I like how you're trying to save your artist's time with fun programming tricks. :)
Thanks, I've been looking for something like this!

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#14 Post by Rosstin2 »

Someone asked me about this today, so *bump*
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#15 Post by curry nochi rice »

that trick is beautiful.. though it doesn't do anything against shadows.

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welp I had to tint the characters, the background, even the snow >.< :v will use this trick until tailor-made backgrounds arrive.
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