Thread:GellyPop/@comment-33370682-20170704135716/@comment-30123468-20170704153858

This is going to be very long, so make sure you have time to read all of it. This is almost all of steps when I did my profile pic.

As with Grav, I am using PowerPoint to do all my diep-related stuff.

Basically, when starting on a newly-created Presentation (which is best to have default/blank white theme), you can insert shapes and other things you are about to use when making art through "Insert" Tab. Shapes are enough to create simple tanks, as you just need circles and rectangles (and trapezoids in case of Overseer/Trapper-branch classes). Once you inserted a shape, position it somewhere in the slide, then you can add more shapes.

Remember that the first shape you inserted is the lowest in the layers of objects, as other newly-inserted shapes and/or objects are getting the front layers. You can change the layering of shapes if you want to hide parts of the weapons beneath the body (you can find more help about object ordering and layers in [|this] and [|this] (second link may contain a bit of pretty different way compared to previous MS PowerPoint versions, although functionality should be almost the same though). Ordering is important since when making tanks, you need to make sure that the main stem of weapons are always hidden beneath the tank's body, except in case of auto turrets in Auto Gunner, Auto Trapper and Auto Smasher.

If you're not sure if you are having the art almost exact from how it looks from the game, try to take an in-game screenshot of the tank you are about to art-ify, or, if it is a concept, create a scratch of it. If you think the tank parts seems to not have exact measurements of color, length, width, etc, select the part and go to the "Format" Tab, where you can set the color and measurements of the part. A useful page of almost exact colors from Diep.io stuff can be found here, as well as SVG files of Diep.io stuff you can download to view them, serving as your guide. To obtain soft color outlines, combine the color of the stuff you are going to use and the old outline color.

If you're done doing your tank, you can select all the shapes and objects you used to create it. Make sure all of them are highlighted, then right click one of them, select "Save as Picture..." and then name it. The default format is PNG, which most of the time, has better looking design compared to JPG/JPEG.

To insert your saved picture, go through "Insert" Tab and click "Pictures". Find the picture you saved, and then insert it. Now, you got the tank.

Getting to almost final steps, you need to get the square profile template (aka tank upgrade button found in upper left during levels to upgrade), with the color depending on you. You can found such here, which include both vanilla and custom templates made by other users (which for use mainly in concepts, although anything could be a good use to those). Once you download the template, insert it with the same method you do with the tank. Resize both tank and template images into smaller size, as there is a limit on how large/small an image could become usable as profile pic. Rotate and position the tank image to the center of the template image. Make sure the tank image's border does not exceed from the template image's border, else, the final image will not be a perfect square.

Everything is fine except one thing: the text on the image (which is most of the time your username or your tank's name). You need Ubuntu font for the text, the same font Diep.io uses. You can get it easily since it's free, but if you cannot, then use alternatives. Now, insert a text box, and set the font into Ubuntu/alternative you used (in "Home" Tab), and in "Format" Tab, set the text fill to white (pure white is not needed, just to make it identifiable as white), set the text outline with dark grey (better text design can be done, although it is sort of advanced techniques when using PowerPoint), then position the text box to fit with the two images. Make sure the border of the text box doesn't exceed the template image, too. Once you are all set up, select the three objects and save them as picture. Once you're done, try to use the image as your profile pic, and if that works, then congrats, you had set up your pic. You may save the PowerPoint Presentation if you like, which I recommend in case problems occur.

I hope I helped you with that (although sorry if it was very long lol), and if you need other things, you can ask me :)

*yawns Well, I'm about to sleep, so good luck making your profile pic!