gunsites

[sizzle22]

OK here's the deal, I have made a few of my own that where basically just copies of the default one but in brighter diffrent colors and some of them show up while others don't. the ones that don't just show up, are just a blue square. I'm kinda lost here, I have compaired the properties of the ones that work to the ones that don't and I see no real difference. It kinda seems like its hit or miss with whether the site will work or not as I am not changing the method in which I use to create them. any help or advice would be much appreciated.   

[LThunderpocket]

what program do you use?im thinkin about makin a few for myself

[sizzle22]

GIMP

[RTHolmes]

ive done gunsights in GIMP and it is a bit of a faff testing them in AH.

the best way is to save your working file with all the layers etc as a native GIMP .xcf file. Then when you want to test it out, Save a Copy as a .bmp file (select the Flatten Layers option when you export, the default 24-bit is fine). Then open the .bmp file in GIMP, Image -> Mode -> Indexed (this turns it into an 8-bit .bmp), save it and its ready to test or use in AH.