Generals Graphics Mod

[Franciscus]

Welcome back aboard, General Jabber
Hope that all is well with you.

[arsan]

Welcome back!!!!!!!!!!!

[Big Muddy]

ouet: O.K. call off the dogs, Jabberwock turned himself in. No need to apologize welcome back sir

[Lafrite]

Welcome back aboard, Jabber

[Ian Coote]

I love you Jabberwock

[Jabberwock]

Small update on the second post of this thread.

[Jabberwock]

Perhaps he ended up in court after all....

Touche'

That is funny

funny to you maybe

actually, court is tedious and annoying

[Jabberwock]

I'm hoping that if I play around with these images enough Jabberwock will resurface and finish his mod.

I can't really do any serious work on this mod because I'm currently in the middle of something in Real Life (tm) that will prevent me from taking on any more commitments. But I've done a certain amount of graphics modding on similar projects and would really like to see if I can learn to make these images efficiently. If nothing else it will be a nice change from modding flags.

Any contribution you would like to make would be welcome.

And does anyone happen to know what filters Sandra, Robin, and Jabberwock were using?

I use mostly Paint Daubs & Dry Brush from Photoshop 6. Nobody seems to know what Sandra and Robin were using.

Mimicing someone else's graphics style is a forger's skill that I haven't learned yet.

I'm still working on this. Hopefully getting better at it.

[runyan99]

It is good that you are back. I will put your '62 set in the next update for the leader mod, if Pocus does not include the portraits in the next patch.

[Jabberwock]

And I'll add Stone, Lovell, and any others you brought in to my 'to do' list.

[Chamberlain]

Welcome back Jabberwock



It's great to hear you are going to continue your graphics !!!!!



Chamberlain

[runyan99]

And I'll add Stone, Lovell, and any others you brought in to my 'to do' list.

If you are willing to do extra leaders, that's great, but you should do them last.

[Clovis]

Great work as usual.

[Jabberwock]

If you are willing to do extra leaders, that's great, but you should do them last.

But of course. Like these guys.

[Pocus]

You remember Jabberwock about the sharpen filter of irfanview? It worked excellently to unblur some of the portraits you made.

(this is the jpg conversion by Imageshack, so slightly degraded compared to what you get in true)

[Jabberwock]

I believe Zolli was one of the worst offenders as far as blurriness and color problems (seems fitting, considering how he died). Anyway, here are some reworked images for him.

[arsan]

Looks nice!
Now if you could do somethig abut his "blurry" stats we could make a nice general out of Zolli At least he have a cool name!
By the way, how did he die??
Regards

[Jabberwock]

He apparently rode up to a union outfit and told them to stop shooting at their own men.

[Jabberwock]

One account:

Zollicoffer was somewhat vain and although very near-sighted he would not wear glasses. He could not tell that the forces in front of him were the enemy and not the 15th Mississippi so he rode forward into their lines and told Col. Speed S. Fry, commanding the Union forces, that he was firing at his own men and to cease fire.

Col. Fry, not knowing who Zollicoffer was, turned and was about to order the cease fire when one of Zollicoffer’s aids came riding up, realizing what the general had done, and opened fire on Fry shooting his horse. Fry returned fire with his Navy revolver and shot Zollicoffer through the heart, killing him.

[Jabberwock]

Lots more:

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/1864/zolldeath.htm

The exact details vary quite a bit.

[Jabberwock]

Since I couldn't find a good quality high-res photo of Bee I did the first portraits from a low-res one. I think he came out looking like a burn victim. Here is a better set, done from a higher-res composite picture.

I have been working on some new faces as well, hope to have a small update tonight.

[arsan]

The new Bee looks fantastic!!

Oh, and thanks for the link about Zollicoffer's dead.
The different accounts are very interesting
I like the version on which he cuts the head of a Yankee soldier with his saber before being shoot down.
Like the Sleepy Hollow rider... but near sighted!

Regards!

[Jabberwock]

Small update, 62c, in second post of this thread.

[jackfox]

Thanks for the time and effort you're putting into the general portraits, Jabberwock. I've been playing around a bit in photoshop, and I'm able to create portraits that, I believe, are pretty true to your's and Sandra's style:




Let me know if you'd like a hand in finishing this project.

[Jabberwock]

Nice! Absolutely I would like help. Your Richard Johnson certainly looks better than the one I've got half done. (Mind if I try a composite?) VonSteinwehr is dead on. Who is the third one? What resolution and filters do you use to create those? Do you have larger versions available?

Your use of shading is better than mine (closer to Sandra's originals).

PM sent.

[jackfox]

The third sample was John Davidson. He spent most of the war in the Trans-Mississippi.

Most of what I've done is based on your "instructions" earlier in this thread. I find the higher res original b&w, delete the background, then use other finished portraits for a color palette. I then use the paintbrush to apply the color directly over the b&w, taking care to match the shading to the original. When that's finished, I apply a sharpening filter, shrink it down to size, and voila!

[Jabberwock]

JF - The composite won't work, the poses are too different.

[Rafiki]

Nice work, Jackfox

[Pocus]

yes, you two are really goods, I hope you can team together

[Le Ricain]

Jabberwock & jackfox,

Impressive work. It would be great to have this particular project completed. Good luck.