I have long been of the opinion that most of the images in the chao gallery are poor quality and/or inadequately showcase the highlights or features of a particular breed/evolution. (Dark Swim Swim not showing the back of the chao). Also many of the images have badly stretched aspect ratios and the water marks often cover most of the colored highlights. As a result of these issues I have pondered the idea of making my own chao gallery. So far unfortunately I have used the HD version of SA2 which has some flaws such as the knuckles stomach thing appearing when it shouldn''t and garbled textures on some hero evolutions. I may switch to the dolphin version if I can find a way to easily edit the evolution sliders. I wont be including the hybrids since most of them are visually uninteresting to me and also because they are just mixed up versions of their components and don't really look intentional. You can usually guess what they will look like based on their components anyway. Here is a demo of what I have so far, they are white chao with highlights.
Neutral Child https://postimg.cc/gallery/s5ZGxvv
Neutral Normal https://postimg.cc/gallery/8G0fFy0
Neutral Swim https://postimg.cc/gallery/3mfPHrb
Neutral Fly https://postimg.cc/gallery/b1d8vvM
Neutral Run https://postimg.cc/gallery/BKMqH6Q
Neutral Power https://postimg.cc/gallery/kXYd8Lp
Neutral all https://postimg.cc/gallery/Nsss0q6
Making own chao gallery
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Making own chao gallery
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Re: Making own chao gallery
Yeaa, those images are holdovers from the early days of the site before we had easy tools for chao picture taking, necessity of watermarking due to still being an up and coming site. But now that we have the tools and easy access to much better quality, I honestly wouldn't mind taking it upon myself doing it if people want it and they'd be used. And thankfully I don't think there's much point in trying to watermark anymore, we've accidentally made people think the chao world is called "Chao Island" xD
The hybrids or "second" evolutions I believe are still important to include for documentation reasons even if they aren't "interesting" to some, so if I did work on helping with updating images, I'd definitely include them.
If you still wish to take the pictures though, I'd suggest using the chao camera code. Would make life a lot easier being able to quickly center the chao and freezes it in place.
The hybrids or "second" evolutions I believe are still important to include for documentation reasons even if they aren't "interesting" to some, so if I did work on helping with updating images, I'd definitely include them.
If you still wish to take the pictures though, I'd suggest using the chao camera code. Would make life a lot easier being able to quickly center the chao and freezes it in place.
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Re: Making own chao gallery
Oh I think second evolutions are interesting just not hybrids between two different second evolutions. (eg dark swim fly vs dark swim fly+run). I am also not saying someone else can't record those, I just don't consider them to be as much of a priority. The one I am starting currently is for my own personal use primarily but I will be uploading them here so other people can see/use them if they want. My goal is mainly to just get all the white chao with highlights for now since I am a believer in a theory that all highlight bearing chaos are just tinted versions of the white ones for the most part. This means the white chao gives you the "unmolested" view of the highlights in each evolution which lets you see things like "oh, newborn chao aren't blue with yellow highlights, they are white with blue and yellow highlights." Also, using a camera hack might not be possible in the dolphin version of the game? I was told that restoring things like shiny jewel and shiny highlights would be impossible on the steam versions but that was before people really got into modding them.Roaxes wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:47 am Yeaa, those images are holdovers from the early days of the site before we had easy tools for chao picture taking, necessity of watermarking due to still being an up and coming site. But now that we have the tools and easy access to much better quality, I honestly wouldn't mind taking it upon myself doing it if people want it and they'd be used. And thankfully I don't think there's much point in trying to watermark anymore, we've accidentally made people think the chao world is called "Chao Island" xD
The hybrids or "second" evolutions I believe are still important to include for documentation reasons even if they aren't "interesting" to some, so if I did work on helping with updating images, I'd definitely include them.
If you still wish to take the pictures though, I'd suggest using the chao camera code. Would make life a lot easier being able to quickly center the chao and freezes it in place.
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Re: Making own chao gallery
Summer 2022 UPDATE:
I am doing this a bit differently now. I am now including the full color compositions. (White highlights + Normal monotone = Normal highlights)
Not sure if there is a way to pin my own messages. Editing the original post seems to have been disabled.
Here is what I have so far:
Neutral Child Chao: https://postimg.cc/gallery/8pdDT63
Neutral Normals: https://postimg.cc/gallery/5Vcp3hZ
Neutral Swims: https://postimg.cc/gallery/dZrW9fw
Neutral Flys: https://postimg.cc/gallery/6q10VLy
Neutral Runs: https://postimg.cc/gallery/KLy21cv
Neutral Powers: https://postimg.cc/gallery/85Z0B6J
Neutral All: https://postimg.cc/gallery/0bn9Y0T
Update: I have now documented the dark chao. Here is what I have.
Dark Child Chao: https://postimg.cc/gallery/Z5VN4Q2
Dark Normals: https://postimg.cc/gallery/vs68spv
Dark Swims: https://postimg.cc/gallery/6R4MtNC
Dark Flys: https://postimg.cc/gallery/Mp7vKWr
Dark Runs: https://postimg.cc/gallery/W2zL3mP
Dark Powers: https://postimg.cc/gallery/XvqV936
Dark All: https://postimg.cc/gallery/jwVQhrX
I may add hero chao at some point. They all have the same base color however which makes it a bit redundant to include the monotone normal and white base highlights.
I am doing this a bit differently now. I am now including the full color compositions. (White highlights + Normal monotone = Normal highlights)
Not sure if there is a way to pin my own messages. Editing the original post seems to have been disabled.
Here is what I have so far:
Neutral Child Chao: https://postimg.cc/gallery/8pdDT63
Neutral Normals: https://postimg.cc/gallery/5Vcp3hZ
Neutral Swims: https://postimg.cc/gallery/dZrW9fw
Neutral Flys: https://postimg.cc/gallery/6q10VLy
Neutral Runs: https://postimg.cc/gallery/KLy21cv
Neutral Powers: https://postimg.cc/gallery/85Z0B6J
Neutral All: https://postimg.cc/gallery/0bn9Y0T
Update: I have now documented the dark chao. Here is what I have.
Dark Child Chao: https://postimg.cc/gallery/Z5VN4Q2
Dark Normals: https://postimg.cc/gallery/vs68spv
Dark Swims: https://postimg.cc/gallery/6R4MtNC
Dark Flys: https://postimg.cc/gallery/Mp7vKWr
Dark Runs: https://postimg.cc/gallery/W2zL3mP
Dark Powers: https://postimg.cc/gallery/XvqV936
Dark All: https://postimg.cc/gallery/jwVQhrX
I may add hero chao at some point. They all have the same base color however which makes it a bit redundant to include the monotone normal and white base highlights.
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Re: Making own chao gallery
Neutral Chao:
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Re: Making own chao gallery
Dark Chao:
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