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Originally Posted by DensetsuNoKaboom
Did you know if you follow bunny's instructions for the splash screen, but instead go to the gallery, go to one of the folders within, and save your file as directoryThumbnail, you can change the directory thumbnails?
@bunny and x2495iiii: how do you upload those huge pictures?
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Yup. First thing I did was make my new objects folder have a thumbnail of my avatar.
How to upload the pictures: PrintScreen (Prtsc) key, Paste to GIMP, save as jpg, attach to post.
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Originally Posted by debussybunny563
Yeah, it's cool, 'cause you can use it to add your own thumbnails for your folders.
If you go into the Required folder and just look around, you can kind of see where Alice gets everything.
I have Windows 7, and there's a program it has installed called Snipping Tool, which allows you to take pics of your screen either fullscreen, a certain window, or a highlighted rectangular area.
Not sure what X used though.
How? I figured out the directory thumbnail thing, but how do you get the individual models to display?
Wait, you're using 2.0?
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Neat. I have 7, but I hadn't heard about that. I'll have to check that out.
Hehe, a little techno elbow grease. It's at the end of this post.
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Originally Posted by jediaction
I never got my thumbnails working. But YES, i know how to get your own objects in a folder. I have a folder with all of my objects that i posted in one big file
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Well, here's how you get thumbnails for individual models.
1. Import the model into an Alice world with no ground. Keep the blue sky, light, and camera though.
2. Place the model as you'd like the thumbnail to look, then capture a screenshot.
3. Unzip any given .a2c that came with Alice, then open the thumbnail image inside in your favorite photo editor (I use GIMP)
3. Open the captured screenshot in the photo editor, then select the blue sky with a color selector and a threshold of about 45-50.
4. Invert the selection (ctrl-i), then cut the selection (ctrl-x).
5. Save it as a new layer in the thumbnail image (the cut selection should paste from your clipboard across projects.
6. Resize and rotate the new layer as needed, then delete the background layer. Don't save yet
7. Unzip the .a2c file for the model you were making a thumbnail for. Save the open thumbnail photo to this newly unzipped folder under the same name and as a png. Export as necessary.
8. Select the contents of the folder (not the folder itself), then zip it again.
9. Change the extension to .a2c and test it out in Alice.
That's how I did it. It seems like a lot of work, but it's like 5-10 minutes for each model. Not really a heart-stopping amount of time, you know?