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[Infinitron]

OA cover (Easley)

OA4 cover (Easley)

Also some interior art from OA2 (James Holloway)

Upload as a zip file. What is OA?

 

[deuxhero]

Oriental Adventures. OA2 and OA4 refer to the modules by those codes (Night of the Seven Swords and Blood of the Yakuza respectively), the same way Village of Hommlet is T1 and Skarda's Mirror is x12.

Zip.
https://my.mixtape.moe/pinwal.zip

 

[Jacob]

Infinitron

add these please, from Rance X: Part 2

https://my.mixtape.moe/nwrlio.zip

 

[Astral Rag]

I trust the Codex is still hard at work implementing the custom avatar functionality, and that it's right around the corner now.

Only 7 microissues remaining.

 

[Infinitron]

Some BattleTech portraits:

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I found another spritesheet of the Rock n' roll Racing portraits, this one is a PNG with transparency and has a handsome looking Olaf.

source: https://www.spriters-resource.com/genesis_32x_scd/rocknrollracing/sheet/77596/

link: https://www.sendspace.com/file/j9565q

original upload

Rock 'N Roll Racing! It has stats and shopping for equipment and isometric view and lots of other stuffies, it's totally a RPG.

Actually I just cropped them out of a picture with all the in-game portraits, kind of shoddy but better than nothing. In two sizes, since I don't know which is more appropriate (both sizes looks good to me):

This one contains smaller portraits, around 96 x 96 size.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/plwiej

edit: 96 is minimum for both dimensions? Oops, some of the smaller portraits won't work, then. Ignore the above link, I'll try to reupload in a few minutes...there. Now they're a bit bigger, but not as big as 125x125. Should be good.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2rq2mb

example:

This one contains them as I initially cropped them out of the pic, a bit bigger at around 125x125.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/500xwy

example:

The original pic, if anyone feels like doing a better job.

 

[Infinitron]

Clockwork Knight What program did you use to create these, Irfanview? The transparency is screwed up:

He's got a transparency running through his helmet because it was originally black there. Somebody want to help out with this?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I expected it to look better with the Codex background

I used this site to turn the solid background color transparent and then this program to grab the portraits.

Could be a side effect of the re-sizing I did in Irfanview. The portraits originally look pretty good, like this:



But I bumped it to 96x96. If that's not necessary anymore, I could just upload these. Or somebody who knows what they're doing can make them bigger without fucking up the look.

edit: test

https://www.sendspace.com/file/nny7fn

 

[Infinitron]

Irfanview screws up transparency in everything it touches, yes. I had the same issues with the BattleTech portraits. Ended up using an FFMpeg commmand line: https://superuser.com/a/747582

 

[FeelTheRads]

If you people are too poor or too afraid of pirating software, why use garbage like Irfanview in the first place?
XNView is also free and is a much better alternative, in every respect.

 

[Infinitron]

If you people are too poor or too afraid of pirating software, why use garbage like Irfanview in the first place?
XNView is also free and is a much better alternative, in every respect.

Does it know how to handle transparency beyond the rudimentary level of setting a certain color as transparent globally? That's the only problem I have with Irfanview.

 

[FeelTheRads]

If you want to add transparency to non-transparent images, I'm not sure it can do that, at least not in a batch.

Also, I don't think you can have an automatic option to replace a color with transparency if that color is also present in the image you want to keep and have good results.

I thought it was about resizing images that already have transparency.

 

[Infinitron]

I thought it was about resizing images that already have transparency.

Well that's part of it. It needs to know how to handle and preserve that area-specific transparency when saving the resized image.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Yes, it will keep the transparency.

For example:

->

Can do it in batch as well.

 

[Latelistener]

I sent a few emails to the author of IrfanView regarding the Lanczos algorithm. Basically, when you resize an image it makes it a bit blurrier (and it shouldn't).
I made a couple of pictures, but he replied that he doesn't see anything and asked me to make them smaller, so I cut out small pieces and sent them to him again, but replied that doesn't see anything anyway.
All in all, I just wasted my time, but now I'm using XNView for that.
I also tried FastStone, but it makes them darker for some reason. And there is GIMP, which works identical to XNview, but doesn't have batch processing.
Of course some things may have changed, it was a while ago.

 

[Infinitron]

Those aren't square shaped. I'll take care of these myself when I have time.

 

[Latelistener]

Those aren't square shaped.

 

[Infinitron]

Those aren't square shaped.

Yeah, there's a transparent strip added to that to make it square. But that's not ideal either IMO.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Working on a new set of D&D/AD&D avatars for David A. Trampier, Erol Otus, Gerald Brom, and Tony DiTerlizzi:

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

D&D / AD&D Artwork - David A. Trampier

Spoiler

AD&D Player's Handbook Cover, AD&D Monster Manual (9 portraits) Basilisk, Devil Dispater, Dragon Turtle, Goblin, Gorgon, Groaning Spirit a.k.a Banshee, Minotaur, Pseudo-Dragon, Vampire

There are already six portraits by Trampier in the "D&D Artwork" category; these can now be filed under Trampier:

Spoiler

AD&D Monster Manual (6 portraits) Devil Baalzebul, Displacer Beast, Intellect Devourer, Lich, Lizardman, Rakshasa

D&D / AD&D Artwork - Erol Otus

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AD&D Deities & Demigods original version (3 portraits) Cthulhu, Hastur, Yog-Sothoth, A4 In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords B&W Myconid, B3 Palace of the Silver Princess later version Cover, D3 Vault of the Drow later version B&W Drow Priestess, I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City Cover, Rogues Gallery B&W Roper, S1 Tomb of Horrors later version Back Cover, S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks (2 portraits) Cover, Froghemoth, S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth Cover, D&D Basic Set 1981 (3 portraits) Cover Dragon, Cover Fighter, Cover Mage

D&D / AD&D Artwork - Gerald Brom

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DLS4 Wild Elves Cover, DLR2 Taladas the Minotaurs Cover, Dark Sun Campaign Setting Box Set (2 portraits) Box Cover, Booklet Cover, DSE1 Dragon's Crown (2 portraits) Cover, Booklet Cover, Dragon Kings Mul, DSR1 Slave Tribes Cover, CGR2 Complete Gladiators Handbook Female Fighter, DSS3 Elves of Athas Cover, Dragon Magazine #197 Cover

D&D / AD&D Artwork - Tony DiTerlizzi

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Planescape Campaign Setting Box Set (12 portraits) Lady of Pain, Bleak Cabal, Doomguard, Dustmen, Fated, Harmonium, Mercykillers, Sensates, Transcendent Order, Dak'kon Xaositects, Cranium Rats, Quadrone, Planes of Law Box Set Monodrone, Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix I (4 portraits) Cat Lord female, Erinyes, Falls-from-Grace Succubus, Annah Tiefling, Monstrous Compendium Appendix II Eladrin Ghaele

 

[Infinitron]

There are already six portraits by Trampier in the "D&D Artwork" category; these can now be filed under Trampier:

Spoiler

AD&D Monster Manual (6 portraits) Devil Baalzebul, Displacer Beast, Intellect Devourer, Lich, Lizardman, Rakshasa

Cool, it could be nice if you could sort the others in the same way.

 

[Fairfax]

I love that piece, but that's a pretty washed scan. Here's one using the original:

 

[Don Peste]

 

[Lady_Error]

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Cool, it could be nice if you could sort the others in the same way.

Of the portraits currently in the category "D&D Artwork":

is Keith Parkinson for the cover of CA2 Swords of Deceit, re-used in 2nd edition Lankhmar City of Adventure and also for SSI's Eye of the Beholder III.

are both from the same artwork (the cover of the Forgotten Realms campaign box set, 1987) by Keith Parkinson that is already in the new Parkinson folder as

. I don't think we need more than one of these three. Personally, I prefer my own, as it shows most of the the rider without zooming out to include more of the horse.

I thought earlier this looked like Keith Parkinson, but I had to use reverse image searching to confirm that this is indeed a Parkinson artwork used as the cover of Palladium's Adventures in the Northern Wilderness. Which means it isn't D&D/AD&D, strictly speaking.

is Larry Elmore, from the cover of the Dragonlance novel Dragons of Winter Night, depicting Laurana. Though I already included two portraits of Laurana, a black-and-white drawing by Elmore (in DL5 Dragons of Mystery) and a color cover illustration by Caldwell (DL14 Dragons of Triumph).

is Larry Elmore, from the cover of the Dragonlance novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight, depicting Goldmoon. Though I already included two portraits of Goldmoon, a black-and-white drawing by Elmore (DL5 Dragons of Mystery) and a color illustration by Caldwell ("Flight from Darkenwood", which I think originally appeared in a calendar, but was eventually used in PHBR13 The Complete Druid's Handbook).

I have no idea.

is Larry Elmore, from the cover of the Forgotten Realms Book of Lairs (though this artwork seems to have been created years before it was finally used by TSR). One of the portraits already in Larry Elmore's folder is from the same cover.

I have no idea.

is Larry Elmore, from the cover of the Dragonlance novel Dragons of Winter Night, supposedly depicting Kitiara, though you can't really tell since she's wearing the helmet. I already included two portraits of Kitiara (sans helmet), one by Caldwell and one by Elmore (both originally appearing in calendars).

I though earlier this might be Larry Elmore, but I don't recognize it, and even reverse image searching yields nothing.

is Larry Elmore, from the cover of the Dragonlance novel Dragons of Winter Night, depicting Tasslehoff. But a portrait created from the same artwork is already in the Larry Elmore folder (plus a black-and-white drawing of Tasslehoff from DL5).

There are six portraits in the new "D&D Artwork - Oriental Adventures" folder.

is by Jeff Easley (the cover of the Oriental Adventures hardcover book). The other five portraits could be moved to the "D&D Artwork" folder, allowing for the elimination of "Oriental Adventures" as a separate category.