Living Avatars FAQ and Tutorial

Hello peeps, there has been some confusion about how to create a Living Avatars item. Or what in the world a Living Avatar is. I shall be answering both of these questions in this post!

Living Avatars FAQ​

What is Living Avatars?

• Living Avatars is a cool program that lets you make your own avatar from items that other people make! Just throw on some clothing and you have an avatar for the forums!
• You can get to it at Website Title - Powered by Living Avatars

These things cost points? Omigosh what are points?

• Points are worth one post each. So everything is pretty cheap!

That's cool..so I am super artistic and I want my own items in there!

• Good for you. That is why I wrote this handy guide in this very post!

Whoa, that explosion is way too small. How do I make it bigger?

• Just hold shift and drag the item.

Living Avatars Creation Tutorial​

So you want to create an item for the Avatars? Cool. It is quite easy, actually.

• First, make an image in the editor of your choosing. MAKE SURE THE BACKGROUND IS TRANSPARENT AND NOT WHITE! (Learn more about this lower down.)
• Save the image as a .png and a .gif
• Upload both files to mediafire.com and send them to Ogreman in a PM.

But..I don't know how to make any art! I JUST WANT TO!

• Okay, no problem. First you need a good editor. I recommend GIMP. The rest of this tutorial will use GIMP for Windows.
• I won't explain how to use gimp in this post. There are MANY great tutorials elsewhere. Some good ones are here: GIMP - Tutorials

Getting rid of background

• First, click the magic wand tool.
• Hold shift and select all things that are the background. These should all be one color.
• Right click the layer on the layer panel and hit Create Alpha Channel.
• Hit Edit>Clear

 

Thank you. Also, if anyone has any questions they can be asked here

 

Okay, adding how to resize objects in the editor!