Make your own Pipboy wallpapers

[nisen]

looking for a way to open screenglare.dds files as images to fix a bug with the Readius orientation (rotated 180 degrees, so need to use rotated images) found Paintnet which can also convert other formats (bmp, gif, jpg, png, tiff & tga by default) to Fallout 3 compatible dds.

 

just open something in Paintnet, SaveAs a dds and in save configuration menu, click the dropdown list to change DXT1 (Opaque/1-bit Alpha) to DXT3 (Explicit/Alpha) and tick the box to Generate Mip Maps; For wallpapers it needs to called screenglare.dds and goes in the textures/pipboy3000 or textures/scorptec/readius folder.

 

standard size is 512x512 which can be increased by fractions like 640/768/896/1024 but it needs to be resized to counteract getting squashed about 30% vertically so for 512 altering it 160 pixels works, and can do it either stretching vertically, squashing horizontally or a combination so horizontal x vertical would be

 

512x512 resized 160 from 512x352 or 672x512, or combined 592x432

640x640 resized 200 from 640x440 or 840x640 or combined 740x540

768x768 resized 240 from 768x528 or 1008x768 or combined 888x648

896x896 resized 280 from 896x616 or 1176x896 or combined 1036x756

1024x1024 resized 320 from 1024x704 or 1344x1024 or combined 1184x864

 

and at least on the Readius things appear a lot brighter, and can lose some color; sharpness also takes a hit but works better sharpening after its resized

 

you can also improve map visibility by opening it in Paintnet and tweaking the color/contrast or adding an overlay if youve got a second one (but might lag). find it in textures/interface/worldmap. and it helps using Fallout 3 Interface Color Changer

 

(thanks to Mechine for explaining Paintnet)

 

 

Heres an example from a great photo by MMark Added color to one, reduced brightness on the other with similar results.

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6684/sexywoman22.jpg

 

and an overlayed map with alotof color

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/783/sexywoman11.jpg

 

 

Edited March 3, 2011 by nisen