Now that I have a background I start considering the idea of who I should put in my picture from the Darkstalkers side since I already have Nebula open.  At first I consider using Jon Talbain since he is my favorite character but then decide that his moves are to regular to make a dramatic fakeshot that I was looking for.  I decide to use B.B. Hood (or Bulleta for the purists) she has one of the weirdest looking moves... you know that one where she brings that freakin' woodcuter out.  I decide to use that specific special move.



So I perform the move I'm looking for and quickly pause it before she's done.  This can be a problem for some people as sometimes when you need a speciffic sprite you can never time it right to pause.  Lucky for me I'm not very choosy as to what color she is and pause it here.



I then open up Shots Factory exactly how I did it the last time, except that this time we have no concern for the background, so instead of removing the sprites I remove Layers 1,2, and 3. Do not panic that there are peices of the background and life and power bars remaining although the Layers are now diabled.



Noticing I didn't get the full sprite I click on the left button of the "Global Sprite Plane Offset until I am able to see the whole sprite.



Now that I have my sprite in view I click on background color and change it from black to pink.  Pink is one of many fakeshotter's favorite colors because it's an unconventional color that is rarely used on outlines.



With the background now pink I begin selecting sprites from the list under "Total Active Sprites" and clicking Disable.  In this picture notice that by disabling the selected sprites peiced of the background are slowly disappearing.



I have now diabled all but the sprites of B.B. Hood, her associates, and her little dog.  Also noticing that the main part of the power bars did not disappear I click the down button on Scroll Y of the "Global Sprite Plane Offset" to show as little of it as possible. Some people prefer that the sprites have shadows while to others it really doesn't matter, for the sake of arguing I keep the shadow B.B. Hood has.  Also some people also like to see the gauges and such in their fakeshots... personally I feel that it detracts from the picture ans should only be used when you're attempting to fake a game... which I am not doing.



After I take a shot of the sprite I then bring back the bombs and the gun fire from the soldier's barrel (and don't ask me why a peice of Jon's tail is there, because that was an accident).  I scroll right on "Global Sprite Plane Offset" until only a peice of the barrel from the soldier's gun is still on-screen for a reference point. I then take a shot of that.

You have now learned the basics of using Nebula's Shot Factory.  Next Part I'll show you where those pictures went and how I'm going to make them useful.  

Proceed to Part 3- "Turning Gold into Straw"