Post: NGU Dynamic Rain Theme + Tutorial
04-10-2011, 10:19 AM #1
izyehboy
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This is a rather simple modification of the Heavy rain dynamic theme. Ive just fired up photoshop after seeing the dynamic theme maker and here's the final product.

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Copy to usb stick in folder PS3/THEME/HR.p3t.

Please note, this is a VERY simple theme. I made it to create a tutorial so many others will make dynamic theme since this forum has some great GFX people.

Tutorial:
This is my first tutorial on using photoshop a little so bare with me.

Things you will need:

  1. Photoshop
  2. Dynamic Theme Maker You must login or register to view this content. - You must login or register to view this content.
  3. Photoshop DDS plugin to save the image. You must login or register to view this content.


Step 1.

Start the Dynamic Theme maker and select the theme from the top tab menu, in this case we will use the HEAVY rain theme.

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Click on START in the bottom to generate the default theme.

Step 2.

Open up the DDS folder which contains a couple of graphic's.

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Step 3. Drag and drop the file "bg.gtf_1.dds" in photoshop. You will be asked on how to import it:

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Step 4. Get the NGU logo (top of this post or top of this website) and drop it into photoshop. Copy it to your Dynamic theme like this:

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Step 5. Reposition the logo. Use the tool highlighted in the red box:

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Step 6. Resize it (use left shift while draging to maintain logo scale):

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Step 7. Transform it to fit the wall using SKEW:

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Step 8. Give it a layer effect. Overlay works perfect on this one:

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Step 9. Save it - Overwrite it!:

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Use these settings:

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Step 10. Now in Dynamic Theme Maker, click the START button again. A CMD prompt will start up and generates things. Press enter after its done.

Step 11. Your theme can be found in this folder: Dynamic Theme Editor 32(or 64)bit\Theme Files\Heavy Rain

Note that when you save the image, make sure the filesize stays the same or you will get an mismatch filesize error.
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The following 4 users say thank you to izyehboy for this useful post:

Adam™, Jannis96, TryCatchMe, wowaka
04-10-2011, 12:31 PM #2
TryCatchMe
Like A Boss
Woah that is pretty cool man Happy
04-10-2011, 12:35 PM #3
wowaka
Former Staff
What a fat fat kid Happy
04-10-2011, 01:21 PM #4
izyehboy
Treasure hunter
Originally posted by TryCatchMe View Post
Woah that is pretty cool man Happy

Thanks!

Originally posted by julian View Post
What a fat fat kid Happy


Christiano Ronaldo in his early day's Eek
04-10-2011, 01:39 PM #5
oToxicity
I’m too L33T
Nice, Looks sweet. And Lol at the fat kid
04-10-2011, 01:46 PM #6
Nice, someone should provide a download to the .p3t Winky Winky
04-10-2011, 02:08 PM #7
The download link you provided doesn't work :(
04-10-2011, 02:13 PM #8
juddylovespizza
I'VE GOT JUNGLE FEVER
Thanks, no need for the tutorial, I just wanted the theme Smile

Heres a little video for people:

04-10-2011, 03:02 PM #9
Cody_h4x
Nobody is like me
Nice tut :y:
The outcome looks really sexy Cool Man (aka Tustin)
04-10-2011, 03:10 PM #10
izyehboy
Treasure hunter
Originally posted by Clutch
Nice, someone should provide a download to the .p3t Winky Winky


Well, the download link is at the top.

Originally posted by Hondarydr View Post
The download link you provided doesn't work :(


Link is just fine as it is... Ill mirror it to be sure Smile

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