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August 28, 2007, 10:45 AM
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Importing your own artwork and making your own unit frames guide
hello people i am new to the warlocks den and have noticed that alot of people are requesting ui's so over the next couple of days i am going to write a comnplete indepth guide on how to create / import your own artwork and make your very own unit frames  ok step one things you will need! Photoshop (i use CS3 for this tutorial) Discord Art Discord Unit Frames Bar mod of your choice (no point having custom everything if you aint gunna make your own bars ) ok here we go screenshots will be uploaded from home so at the moment this is just a text guide STEP 1) find some artwork you like in any format as long as it is not animated or design your own in photoshop once you have the artwork open inside photoshop first thing you need to do is select the part of the artwork to get first (for wow to see textures they have to be in the following multiples 64, 128, 256, or 512 so 256x256 is acceptable 256 x 512 is acceptable 512x64 is acceptable 12x 73 is not so make a new canvas using one of the above sizes (remember a multiple of 2) copy the selected area and paste it into your new canvas now the hard part on the right hand side of photoshop window you see layers / channels etc click chanels at the bottom of that window there are 4 buttons hover over them unitl you find the one that says Alpha channel (third one from the left) click it now you will only see a black space select RGB aswell as the alpha chanel you wil see your image and a huge red box ok what is red wow will ignore so take the eraser tool and rub out the red of what you want wow to see once this is done click file save as save it as a Targa now you get a popup that says texture compression select 32 and ok now you need to put this saved artwork in the following folder C:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns/DiscordArt/CustomTextures ***this is for artwork not the unit frames***** now load up wow **wow will not see textures if you have added them unless you quit and load it up again a /rl wont work*** ok now type /dart you get the discord art box pop up at the top in the middle it says select texture click it and then click on custom at the bottom it has a path were you type in the name of the file you just made so for example : test1.tga hit enter you will now see a prievew of your texture click add texture you will now see the texture you just added rince and repeate for more textures ;) click unlock dragging to move them once there all in place make sure you click disable mouse (this stops any backgrounds interfearing with wow) congratulations you just added your first wow texture i will upload screenshots of every single process tonight at home hope this helps some people ;) the guide will continue with unit frames and more about artwork with full screenshots so keep checkin back
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