i got a question that arouse shortly and that is how do you guys make the ships silhouette in the bottom left corner for any ship not yet in this game?
as example there is the tie aggressor of DarthEnderX
Start by finding an image of the ship you want. There are a couple of optimal qualities that you should look for:
- high resolution (we're going to be scaling the image down at the end)
- high contrast (not necessarily on the ship itself, but between the ship and the background)
- correct angle (this is more variable, but generally you want something with a slightly nose-down attitude, top-down or side shots aren't the best)
Once you've found a good image, magic-select the background and delete it. It doesn't matter if you don't get it all in one go, just try not to select parts of the ship (this is why we want high-contrast between ship and background).
You'll end up with a ship and a transparent background. Select the background (global magic-select is useful if there are non-contiguous pockets of background), then make a new layer. Fill the selected area, doesn't matter what colour, then fill the empty area in white (there's an easier way to do this by using selection modes to select everything that's not transparent on the ship layer, but this is my muscle memory for it).
You should get a white ship with whatever background colour. Delete the background colour and the underlying layer so you just have the white ship and a transparent background. Now, flip/rotate the ship so it's facing right, and slightly up/down (this is sort of to taste), then scale the image way down (anywhere from 150-300px longest side is fine).
This produces nicely antialiased edges. Now, change the canvas to a square (although it doesn't matter much), and save as .png to keep the transparency.
Then you can add it in StrangeEons. It'll automatically scale, but adjust scale and position a tad to get it filling most of the circle on the card.