Category Archives: Tips & Tricks

Hammerknight is back with another of his great Recipes, this time on how to build a great looking werewolf just in time for Halloween:

Click to make that bigger, and see how you can make your own werewolf step-by-step (again clicking to enlarge the images) after the jump.

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Hammerknight has put together a set of very cool Halloween-themed item recipes for your enjoyment this spooky season. He's also got a nice new layout for these recipe cards that I think looks great. As always, many thanks to him for being willing to put in the time and creativity to assemble these.

Click on any of the images to get a bigger, more legible version for viewing or printing.

Hammerknight was nice enough to agree to push his "How To" post from Friday to today so Mark's polearms would be sure to be noticed, but I'm glad to get this extra edition of the always great recipe series up to help you develop the perfect character sketch. This edition focuses on hair styles for you adventurous composers of female portraits. Thanks again Hammerknight!

As usual, click on any of these recipe images to see it much bigger.

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.

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

(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:

(Click to embiggen.)

How to open MS Paint in Windows:

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

(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.)

(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