EVE General Discussion

from http://poeticstanziel.blogspot.ca/2012/06/greenscreening-coming-to-eve-online.html

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I've played around with putting our characters onto different backgrounds, but the job of removing existing backgrounds can be a little onerous, especially with my middling Photoshop skills. I've wished, for awhile now, that we had the option to put our characters onto a solid background, green preferably.

Yesterday, I decided to use the power of Twitter to ask if it might be possible.

The answer came within the hour from Erlendur, CCP Karkur, and Torfi Frans Olafsson.

And not twenty-four hours later, CCP Karkur demoed a mock-up, the image above. So, I'm excited to think that this may become a reality in a patch or update in the near future.

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[This took all of 4 minutes with the new green background. Only a few pixels to manually edit, rather than hundreds.]

I have middle of the road Photoshop skills. I would expect that those folks with great Photoshop skills will find greenscreening much more useful. It would probably ease the process of step-by-step animating their characters into scenes.

I know this is just a small example, and that it isn't related to internet spaceships, but continually impressed since September 2011: CCP's willingness to listen and respond to its players quickly and efficiently.

I'd like to thank Erlendur, CCP Karkur and Torfi for the positive response to my suggestion, and the quick turn around on something fleshed out. I look forward to seeing it in game. I look forward to seeing how the more graphically inclined utilize greenscreening.

Can do this in photoshop in just a few seconds. Wouldn't help me any, but would be usefull for people who aren't that familliar with PS.

Don't remove the background, remove the forground. It takes practice but once you get used to it you can cut very complex shapes from an imagine in PS.

Working in multiple layers I can have the background image laid, cut the forground character, drop it to the background layer, remove the original background layer. Once you have the hang of it you can do it all in PS in the same amount of time, and without any artifacts.

The green screen is cool though and would be great for a novice PS user.

It might be easier with paint shop.

You know instead of just being pathetic you could tell the OP to do something constructive like saving multi images with different lighting conditions so that is blends in better.

But no if that is the best you could come up with, not impressed.

Why? For more personalized looks? I can just foresee many problems with this.

Edit: are you trying to do it for in-game or out of game picture customization?

Can't you do that already somehow by messing with the game files and replacing the background images with a solid green background? This might be on the edge of EULA, but CCP allowed changing the videos on the CQ screen - I don't see how this could do any more harm.

Some Eve players don't use image editing software or CBA to jump through hoops because they are busy with stuff. Just wow,right? /sarcasm
edited for extra clarity : CBA-busy-stuff.

+1 OP. It would save us a lot of time.

That's sick. I approve.

How about having the rendering server that does the hi detail portraits just generate a green screen one that can be downloaded from eve gate or account management?

With a green screen you wouldn't have to do all that faffing around and it would save you some time.

Unbelievable.