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DertyNerdy's LCARS Graphics

MGI Photosuite

It's a very old photo editing program for Windows 95....similar to the old Paint Shop Pro
Nice, I used to love that program. I stopped being able to get that to work at some point and then changed to GIMP.
These graphics are really amazing. I just can imagine how hard they were to make and animate. I tried making some 23rd century LCARs once and gave up, and they were only a bunch of coloured boxes!
 
Can't wait to see the Non-Red Alert version of the ASM

It's coming...

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Nice, I used to love that program. I stopped being able to get that to work at some point and then changed to GIMP.
These graphics are really amazing. I just can imagine how hard they were to make and animate. I tried making some 23rd century LCARs once and gave up, and they were only a bunch of coloured boxes!

It still works...i use it on Windows 10! But instead of auto setup just go to the psuite folder on the disc or image and launch the install.exe :)

It is time consuming, especially these days when we have quicker and more saficiscated programs to work with. I'm just replicating what they had then in the early 1990s when they were making this stuff. It's just like a basic 8 bit pixel image or something. How many colours are in that graphic above...5? lol. They are enjoyable to make when your going frame by frame, screencap by screencap and matching what you see but colouring in 294 indiviual frames is not fun lol

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They are very nice ;-)
i'm glad you are doing both versions of the ASM.
Amazing work
 
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Do you plan on working on other Red Alert Lcars ? like the Vehicle Status. (appears when red alert command is initiated)
 
This one...yeah that will be an easy one...although i'm unsure about the colors....are those bits really blue or grey????

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I had the same issue with the ASM Red Alert untill this graphic was done in post production. These post production ones are really helpful as you see the actual colors of the graphic as oposed to the ones displayed on the video monitors during a scene.

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Thing is on the Vehicle Status the blueish coloring looks better imo...i dunno. I did see it in it's orginal form from a cutout i saw at a trek convention....

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This one...yeah that will be an easy one...although i'm unsure about the colors....are those bits really blue or grey????

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I love this animation. i think it seems blue because of the camera from the show because almost every LCARS seems blueish in Red Alert Mode.
 
This one...yeah that will be an easy one...although i'm unsure about the colors....are those bits really blue or grey????

pdvds-002.jpg
In the Night episode of VOY they slowed it down, looks better when it's running faster, like on Scorpion or in the earlier seasons.
 
Pretty cool, pretty cool. Have you considered doing some in the Nemesis colours?
 
I havent been able to work on it lately as ive been busy doing other things but i should be back on it this week...
 
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