P-51B sckin causes crash to desktop

[coyo]

I am working on a skin for the P-51B. I only copied the p51bsid and p51btop bmp files and modifed those.
I did not change the res or size (it is still 72res and 1024x1024)
I made sure I saved it as indexed color.

WhenI select the skin in AH, AH crashes.

Can anyone help? I also copied the art files, unmodified to the new directory (P51bart1, p51bart1_a,p51bart2, p51bart2_a.txt)

Also, anyone know why p51bart2_a.txt is a txt file? it only contains the number 1; what is that all about?

Thanks

coyo

[nopoop]

Your not saving it as a 8 bitmap. If you don't, it will crash the game every time.

If your using photoshop save your work as a photoshop file FIRST.

Then..

Pick Mode->indexed->Local (adaptive)/256 colors/Forced B&W/Matt=none/Diffusion 75%..then click "OK"

Then "Save as"->BMP (with your file name ) and make sure it's saving it as an "8 bit"

Hope this helps.