Ball Customization Tips

[spl]

Version 1.5 comes with Customize Balls feature and here are a few tips for customizing balls! Questions and comments are welcome.

Customize Balls Menu can be accessed from the Ball Select Menu. To create a custom ball, select any ball in Customize Balls Menu and click "new". This will open a ball editor with a copy of the chosen ball. Custom balls can be easily edited and deleted later.

Surface appearance can be controlled by changing smoothness, metallicity, hue, color, surface texture and light texture. Light texture is an extra that's only needed for light emitting balls. Textures can be either in JPG or PNG format and recommended size is either 2048x1024 or 1024x512. Textures are wrapped around the ball so that horizontal centerline of the texture runs along the ball's equator.

It's also possible to copy custom balls via a manual process (for now). Click on the folder icon in Customize Balls Menu to open Balls folder. Inside Balls folder we have one folder per custom ball... You can rename custom ball folders and copy them between installations.

When other players use custom balls in online game, you'll see them as random standard balls if you don't have matching custom balls in your installation.

[Wrothbog]

what percentage of pixels off the top of the image are being cropped? i've been flood filling the top and bottom edges to give myself thumb plugs and a top pin but the top pin isn't evident nor would it be even remotely in the right place but meh

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AnL7B9VMjS9fgoBf27hEXe0haDHKrQ
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AnL7B9VMjS9fgoBgC2D_ghOCcqf4iQ

these are ludicrously easy to make using a couple filters in photoshop. specifically cloud render, liquify, offset 3-4 times then do some colour overlays for colour blending and whack a logo or some text to finish it off.

[vesa]

Hi. Top 1/32 of vertical pixels (32 pixels if image height is 1024) are cropped, or to be price those are mapped into holes of the ball, so those can be used to change color of holes. And bottom pixels are mapped around thumb hole.

[Wrothbog]

thanks

[vesa]

Version 1.5.1 is out now that fixes custom ball saving issue. Ball rotation also fixed in ball customization window.