Purno's Drawing Tutorials [now online]

[Purno]

Hi all, welcome back

I must admit I didn't do much drawing while I was in Switserland, but I was able to make some drawing tutorials.

The current HTML-site contains 5 tutorials, some drawing explanatory and some other thingies.

I still need to try to get it online, never did such thing before so it could take a while, but I can't wait to get some first reactions



EDIT (23 August 2004): Purno's Drawing Tutorials are located at http://users.tt-forums.net/purno/PDT/index.php thanks to Owen!

[Killer 11]

Rar it and post here

[krtaylor]

Nah, stick it on the Patch website in the Wiki. It has to be somewhere it can be easily pointed to and browsed. I bet Owen can come up with a good solution.

[spaceman-spiff]

Rar it and post here

No RAR , use something else please, I'm sick and tired of rar files

[Singaporekid]

Purno's back!! Yay!!
What about *.zip
Is there a drawing tutorial for steamers? If not i can give u my wprk in progress

[Purno]

Purno's back!! Yay!!

Thanks, that's one of the most enthusiastic reactions I got.

What about *.zip

I could do that, but the site isn't completely finished, I still want to add a guestbook, and I've to change some minor things.

Is there a drawing tutorial for steamers? If not i can give u my wprk in progress

Currently it has 5 tutorials:

• * Passenger coach (very detailed)
  * EMU (includes a new shape, panto's, front windows and such (less detailed))
  * Diesel engine (includes a more complicated shape (very undetailed))
  * Oil Tanker (includes a round shape (only the make-the-round-shape-part is detailed))
  * Wood Carrier (includes the unloaded/loaded stages (somewhat detailed))

Besides that it has an explanotary about the TT Dimensions, Light effect and Sprite Sizes (train vehicles only)

It contains a list of some artists/coders, I need to check if the people I mentioned want to be mentioned, I'll do that later (until than I won't post the site, I think that's better thing to do)

So, in short, a steamer tutorial would be nice, but it needs to be in the same style as the other tutorials.

[Purno]

The current HTML-site has the folowing table of contents:

WELCOME
- Introduction
- About me
- News

BEFORE YOU START DRAWING
- TT Dimensions
- TT Light effects
- TT Sprite sizes
- Which tool to use

TUTORIALS
- Passenger coach tutorial
- EMU tutorial
- Diesel engine tutorial
- Tanker tutorial
- Wood carrier tutorial

HOW TO CONTINUE
- Insterting your sprites in TT
- Joining or starting a project
- Available jobs
- List of coders & artists

FEEDBACK
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Contact & asking questions
- Guestbook
- Important notes from others

OTHER
- Links
- Site stats
- Thanks to...
- Copyright


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"List of coders & artists" currently mentioning:

Bastiaan, Colonel32, Mauro, Raven, Saskia, Singaporekid_92 and me as artists

broodje, Hyronymus, Lakie and Oracle as coders

does any of these has any objection to be mentioned?

Note that I only mention artists/coders of railroad vehicles
_____

"Thanks to..." currently mentioning:

Akalamanaia, Bastiaan, broodje, Colonel32, Hyronymus, Lakie, Mauro, Oracle, orudge, Saskia, Singaporekid_92, Szappy, TGVfan

does any of these has any objection to be mentioned?

_____

Links currently mentioning:

tt-forums, ttdpatch site, grfcodec site*, european railway server*, NFO tutorial at Wiki*, MB's website*, Dinges's website*

* I still need to look up the adress

Any objections/additions?

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Current website size is 5 MB (sorry to use BMPs )

[GoneWacko]

BMP is the worst format you can use on websites. Convert it to PNG and your site will probably become 20% of what it is now.
(Except for when you have a browser with a PSD plugin, I suppose )

[Purno]

BMP is the worst format you can use on websites. Convert it to PNG and your site will probably become 20% of what it is now

Yeah I know, I had a laptop/notebook/whatever it's called in English on vacation, but it didn't have software to convert to PNG. Well, now I can convert 100+ files

[Singaporekid]

My laptop can convert to *png
Does anyone know anything that can convert to *.pcx other than photoshop?
Where do u plan to put your website?
Ps: u can't use purno.com cause it's got (you know what)

[GoneWacko]

Purno

use Irfanview (google for it). It has Batch conversion.

You just select all files you want to convert, tell it to convert to PNG, it does the thing, job done.

[Purno]

thx GW, I'll try that.

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I added DanMacK to the "List of coders & artists", any objection DanMacK?

[DanMacK]

Purno, I don't mind at all. Was wondering if I was gonna get noticed

[Purno]

GW, is there a simple quick way to change all links in a HTML file from *.bmp to *.png?

[Steve]

Replace All. You should have it in all good text editors. Even notepad.

[Purno]

and when I got multiple HTMLs?

[krtaylor]

Emacs, if you know how to use it.

[Purno]

Too late Krtaylor, I already used wordpad

The whole BMP to PNG conversion is now finished, result: 5MB becomes 285 kB, not bad.



EDIT:



TO DO:
- Check if all people mentioned want to be mentioned (please respond ASAP)
- Add a guestbook (I have no idea how) (I like the one on Owens Transport Tycoon Station available for free somewhere?)
- Get website online (I have no idea how)



EDIT:

- Check if all people mentioned want to be mentioned

List of Artists:

• Bastiaan - AGREES
• Colonel32 - no response yet
• DanMacK - AGREES
• Mauro - no response yet
• Raven - currently not available
• Saskia - AGREES
• Singaporekid_92 - AGREES

List of Coders:

• broodje - no response yet
• Hyronymus - AGREES
• Lakie - AGREES
• Oracle - AGREES

Thanks to...:

• Akalamanaia - AGREES
• Bastiaan - AGREES
• broodje - no response yet
• Colonel32 - no response yet
• Hyronymus - AGREES
• Lakie - AGREES
• Mauro - no response yet
• Oracle - AGREES
• orudge - AGREES
• Saskia - AGREES
• Singaporekid_92 - AGREES
• Szappy - AGREES
• TGVfan - no response yet

Does anyone knows if any of the mentioned people are currently not at the forums (because of vacation or something)?

[Singaporekid]

ok, u can add me

[Purno]

ok, u can add me

done, I added you at both list of artists and thanks to.