Creating FRM's for posters and such

[Silencer]

I've fiddled with GIMP a bit but to no avail, so I'm asking this in hopes that some more Photoshop-savvy person can answer.

My question is how to rotate or modify an image bitmap (a rectangular one) to make it suitable for using as an FRM for a poster to put on a building wall in the map for example? How do I need to modify the image, apart from of course shrinking it?

 

[requiem_for_a_starfury]

The very easiest way for a simple flat image like a poster is to make your image a bmp, open it in paint and then go image>sketch/skew and then alter the vertial skew +/- depending on which direction you want it to face.

I know in FOT it's +/- 28 but I have no idea what value is correct for FO2.

 

[dude_obj]

sketch/skew and then alter the vertial skew +/- depending on which direction you want it to face. I know in FOT it's +/- 28 but I have no idea what value is correct for FO2.

If I did the right math (hope so...) this diagram should help:
http://modguide.nma-fallout.com/TileGeometry.gif

The angle of the walls follows same angles as the tiles. FO2 tiles are more skewed than FOT in more than one way ... the tiles are more skewed away from a diamond shape, so angles are different for NW/SE and NE/SW. Looks to be 14 degrees going NE/SW and 37 degrees going NW/SE.

EDIT... yes 14 degrees skew gives me this:

EDIT: One more thing ... you can use the free imagemagick program to combine an actual wall image and your poster. After skewing the poster, make the outside transparent, and combine with the wall.

convert -transparent fuchsia poster.gif poster.gif
composite poster.gif wall.gif wallpstr.gif