Category Archives: Recipes

The face of time

With many thanks to Hammerknight for his excellent ongoing series of how-to articles, I am happy to present his latest. Let him know in comments what you think and any other guides you'd want to see from him.

Making polearms

Since it's going to be a few weeks before I can resume work on HM3 and the polearms, Hammerknight has graciously put together some guides on how you can make your own in the meantime. He also wanted to know if you'd like some instructions on how to save a weapon so you don't have to recreate it over and over, so by all means let him know in comments what you think of that.

Enjoy! As usual, you can click on the images to make them bigger and more legible.

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Hammerknight’s Recipes: Toon

(With many thanks to friend-of-the-site Hammerknight, who now presents you with suggestions on how you might use the new test Toon body. Enjoy, and be sure to thank him for volunteering his time! Click on an image to embiggen it for legibility.)

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Hammerknight’s Recipes: Stained glass and tatts

(Many thanks once again to Hammerknight for putting together two new "how-to" recipes. Click on either image for a larger version.)

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Hammerknight’s Screen Captures

(Back with another helpful edition of his Recipes series is Hammerknight, this time with a pictorial essay on how to do screen captures and put your character into MS Paint. Thanks for the help, Hammerknight! Feel free to consider this an open help thread, and post whatever you like in comments.)

Doing a printscreen in Windows to capture your character image:

How to open MS Paint in Windows:

Hammerknight’s weapons

(Thanks once again to Hammerknight for putting together this how-to sheet. Click on the image to see it at its original full size.)

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Hammerknight Recipe 7: Poses

(Many thanks to artisan Hammerknight for sharing his techniques for some of the crazy poses he's able to put together! Click on any image to get the original full-sized version. Feel free to ask questions, make observations, or just spout off about whatever in the comments.)

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Tiles tiles tiles

(Hammerknight has been kind enough to assemble another set of recipes for cool stuff you can do with the HeroMachine 3 Alpha. Thanks big guy! Click on any image to embiggen it.)1

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Hammerknight Recipe 5: Rock of ages

(Frequent commenter and power-user Hammerknight has been kind enough to put together some visual tips, which he calls "recipes", to help you assemble just the right visual for your character in HeroMachine 3. His latest installment deals with properly sizing your character by age. Thanks again HK, these are great! Feel free to use the comments to ask questions, get tips on putting together your character, or anything else help-related you have on your mind.)

Hammerknight Recipe 4: Gun that hog!

(I'm happy to present the latest in Hammerknight's "Recipe" series, giving you step by step instructions on how to duplicate some of his remarkable items with HeroMachine 3. Thanks Hammerknight! Click on any of the images to biggify them.)

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