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Tracing Guns

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sr.hola

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Mar 14, 2007 9:50 PM #26458
Best Gun EVER!!!! Tutorial
Here is a tut on how to make the most realistic gun you could ever imagine.

Step 1: To start off you will need to download a picture of a gun (obviously). The gun can be any kind, because there is no tracing involved.

Step 2: Press Ctrl+A (select all) or highlight everything in the picture with the selection tool. DO NOT scale down the picture. If the gun doesn't fit in the Stage, simply zoom out.

Step 3: with the picture selected, click Modify, Bitmap, and Trace Bitmap. When the pop-up comes up, simply press OK. Don’t screw with the numbers or options unless you know what you're doing.

Step 4: The gun should now have a more cartoony touch. Click on all surroundings of the gun and delete them one by one. Inside the trigger guard as well. When you think you're finished, press Ctrl+A once again to spot marks or shadows you might have missed, and delete them.

Step 5: Highlight the entire gun, and either group it (Ctrl+G), or convert the entire thing to a symbol.

Step 6: NOW you can scale it down, and watch your creation shine in glory.


You're Welcome!
(Noobs keep scrolling down)

If you don’t know how to import an image, here's your extra tut.

For Windows 2000-XP: Go to a search engine, click Images, and save the image to your computer. Make sure you save it to My Pictures. Go to Flash, click File, Import, Import To Stage, and then go to My Pictures, click on your gun, and that’s it!
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Mar 14, 2007 10:12 PM #26461
No, for the love of God, NO!


Trace bitmap=huge mistake. I would strongly advise you to draw or trace your own guns instead of being image reliant.
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Mar 15, 2007 12:46 AM #26466
Draw your own.

Don't TRACE your own, DRAW your own.

As said, for the love of buddha!
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Mar 15, 2007 8:18 PM #26542
WTF dude?

draw your own guns fewl.
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Mar 15, 2007 10:36 PM #26566
right im pretty ure that illegal in the art off cartooning..or something like that?
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Mar 17, 2007 5:41 PM #26784
good but not that good
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Mar 17, 2007 6:16 PM #26786
Best gun ever? I hardly think so.
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Mar 17, 2007 6:17 PM #26787
Really, if you trace your guns yourself you'll get much better results.
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Mar 17, 2007 11:41 PM #26842
Tracing is good, but trace bitmaping is just horrible.
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Mar 17, 2007 11:46 PM #26844
Drawing is good, but tracing is ghey.

If you can't draw guns, don't resort to tracing.
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Mar 17, 2007 11:57 PM #26846
Quote from Xelectroid
Drawing is good, but tracing is ghey.

If you can't draw guns, don't resort to tracing.


This is tracing bitmaps, were the computer does it for you.


[SIZE="1"]Lol, jump on the hate bandwagon with no previous knowledge. [/SIZE]
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Mar 18, 2007 12:26 AM #26850
Quote from Xelectroid
Drawing is good, but tracing is ghey.

If you can't draw guns, don't resort to tracing.


lol, i'd like to see someone make a better drawn gun than traced (not bitmaped) gun
master tenku

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Mar 24, 2007 7:40 PM #27529
Quote from Miccool
lol, i'd like to see someone make a better drawn gun than traced (not bitmaped) gun


Most good artists are able to draw guns better than another person could trace one from an image. If i could be arsed I would draw you some...
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Mar 25, 2007 3:44 AM #27586
The best worst looking gun ever maybe...
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May 5, 2007 5:23 PM #31622
wow thanks! i spend the last hour tracing a thompson for a ww2 animation and now i know how to do this, thanks! you've saved me alot of time, and the gun looks cool like that, thanks!
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