Creating New Images

Overview

(more details to follow)

In ARK:

1. Setup ARK with Filmmaker's mod bluescreen, or similar simple background
2. Set to night, cancel weather
3. Disable creature movement
4. Spawn creature
5. Position any lights needed
6. Position yourself (remembering final image will be square)
7. Enable global pause to stop all movement
8. Set all regions to white, then capture screenshot
9. Set all regions to their key colors, then capture screenshot

Image processing:

1. Load both screenshots as layers of the same image
2. Crop the image to a square region
3. Remove the background (full alpha)
4. Duplicate the white image and invert it
5. Use layer modes to Overlay the inverted layer over the color mask, removing dark areas
6. Scale the image to 256x256
7. Export the original white layer to <Species>.png
8. Export the overlayed color mask to <Species>_m.png

Testing:

1. Ensure ASB has no creature selected in its library
2. Remove the existing cache
3. Copy your new images across
4. Select a creature of the correct species