Starships Geomorph book now available

[Old School]

It really depends on the tools at hand. Assuming you are using a PC, you can use the Windows snipping tool to clip out the geomorphs you want. Try to clip them right down the middle of the wall for cleaner connections when assembling. In most word processing documents you can add images, rotate, and scale them. In Microsoft Word you need to go Insert > Picture for each image. Then right click on each image and set Wrap Text to something like Through, Behind Text, or In Front of Text so they can be moved freely.

As Whartung said, it won't be as clean as the originals, but it might get you started and it's quicker than learning Photoshop. Good luck!

So, with a little trial and error, I've discovered that PowerPoint of all things does a good job of snapping the images together rather precisely. So that works well for that piece.

What' I'd really like a software that I could snip the same spot from each page, and the save the individual images. That would be so much better than precisely snipping each one. I can dream, right? But that's no criticism, this stuff is great. How we use it is up to us!

 

[Beerfume]

I'd really like a software that I could snip the same spot from each page

I use Screenhunter 6.0. It does this and it's free. Set the "Capture What" to Fixed Area, click on the box to the right of that, draw a boundary box around one of the geomorphs then repeatedly alternate between hitting the Print hotkey (with your finger) and page down button on the PDF (with your mouse). I just banged out about 20 of them in a few seconds. Then delete the ones that are actually clips of the illustrations.

 

[nobby-w]

[ . . . ]As Whartung said, it won't be as clean as the originals, but it might get you started and it's quicker than learning Photoshop. Good luck!

It does occur to me that if the originals could be packaged as usable graphics (vector or high resolution PNG/TIFF files) then you could package them and make them available through one of the artwork sites with an appropriate licence. It looks like DriveThruRPG can do this to some extent as well.

That might be quite useful to folks putting together their own maps.

 

[Old School]

I’ve already created vector files for the standard ones. Edges are next . . .

 

[Vargas]

I love the No Man's Sky style exosuit packs in some of the illos . . .

 

[Beerfume]

I love the No Man's Sky style exosuit packs in some of the illos . . .

And the fact that the No Man's Sky Next patch recently came out and the release of the geomorph book was a month late are completely coincidental.

 

[Old School]

Thanks for the recommendation. I downloaded Screenhunter 7.0, and if it will do the same, I havent figured it out yet. 6.0 is only available as the pro version. Will mess around with it some more later.

Goodreader ap on the ipad can also do it, but the ipad turns them into huge jpeg files.

 

[Vargas]

And the fact that the No Man's Sky Next patch recently came out and the release of the geomorph book was a month late are completely coincidental.

Just hit 600 hours on the game myself . . .

 

[Beerfume]

Just hit 600 hours on the game myself . . .

Wow! And here I am thinking I need an intervention for hitting 125.

 

[Beerfume]

The Starship Geomorphs book has been updated and can be found at my blog here: Starship Geomorph PDF update.

 

[JimMarn]

got it, thanks !

 

[Kilgs]

This is amazing! Thank you!