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i have made a tutorial about setting up, modelling and animate a object to make a factorio useable sprite-sheet.
i suggest you tune your volume down and use own music - otherwise you can hear some not very useful comments from me in bad english
you can view the last video (~ 7 min) to see how it looks at the end in factorio.

Youtube

i hope it anwsers some questions and help. the core/basic-workflow princip is always the same whatever 3D-Programm you want to use.
as you can see no photoshop, gimp, paint required - only a 3d-programm that you like and you can operate.

Thank you ! Definitely gonna try this !

waduk wrote:Thank you ! Definitely gonna try this !

Enjoy, and don't give up to fast

i improved the animation in additional 60 min ... and the result you can see/get here for testing or use in your mod

Icon:
Single:
horizontal-sheet: H-Link
horizontal-sheet: V-Link

fancy as shown in video: View

I have to learn all the basic Cinema4D first, but yeah definitely gonna do it. There's way too many mod that i like that don't use custom image.

Seriously, you're very good !

waduk wrote:Seriously, you're very good !

Thank You,
but not good enough to make money with it
so if you aim for easy money you need to be much much better - and this needs more and more time - but everything you model or make, you get a little bit better - it's only time you need.

YuokiTani wrote:

waduk wrote:Seriously, you're very good !

Thank You,
but not good enough to make money with it
so if you aim for easy money you need to be much much better - and this needs more and more time - but everything you model or make, you get a little bit better - it's only time you need.

I would pay somebody like you to make graphics for my game... If I had money
Seriously, there are lots of released games with worse graphics where artists get paid, I think you could get paid

@ficolas
I'am happy. You are alive and you found time for some activity here

back to business <- lol
i continue my youtube-tutorial-series about gfx for factorio and added a video about makeing some icons. if you have no time to view this video or make icons by yourself here all for free download.

Nice work, I will have to look into this more when I have time

Your models look very good!

Piranha wrote:Nice work, I will have to look into this more when I have time
Your models look very good!

you should have time, in other case your are a slave
and time ticks for all people at same speed, have money or not ...

but i want to ask if someone would see i continue the tutorial-series.
possible next topic are improvements + variants and aging, used look ...

notice:
this is not a professional series, it aim's for fast success in all things. you can done icons/sheets in 2 hours or 2 weeks. it depends on how perfect you want your result. and any professional would head shake about this. i had made models in the past with max. 12-16 h modelling - for more time i have to less patience. and i'am sure you can most things shown easy use in your favorite 3d-program, because no real deep-special-functions used.

Thank you for this Yuoki!! I watched all the vids and am now modeling my first structure. I will post it here when it is done!

EDIT: and here it is.
Icon
Spritesheet

It's an flotation cell if you were wondering :p

not bad, looks really good (my first attempts were much more worse).
i guess you have not changed camera to parallel-view so maybe it fits not 100% the ingame-look.

YuokiTani wrote:not bad, looks really good (my first attempts were much more worse).
i guess you have not changed camera to parallel-view so maybe it fits not 100% the ingame-look.

I was only able to do it b/c of your tutorials
And yes, i realized something was wrong with the camera. Already re-rendered it with the parallel-view
I made this one today:

only by doing(modelling) you can improve and discover new things.
looks like you have enough ideas to keep on (you should)
and i'am sure you discovered already - it's a nice reward to get a image/animation done with your hands.

Im trying to create a tech image item 64x64. I posted image. but when I enter game it looks all blured and not quiet as detailed. I used your method for rendering image in c4d but quality comes out poor in game is there another technique for this?

64x64 image looks distorted and meh

solved. used 256x256 image. used icon=256 in script and presto looks like it should