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Title: Skin editing question
Post by: United on January 11, 2004, 04:46:05 PM

I have noticed that while using MS paint, I go to use a certain color, I.E. Yellow, and when I go to use it it is a different color.  I know that since it is in 256 color mode this cant be fixed, or at least not to my knowledge.  How can I change it so that it does come out the color I choose, and if not, how can I get it to 16 color bit mode, and back to 256 without losing any detail or colors?

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: United on January 11, 2004, 04:49:00 PM

Oops, disregard that last post.  Forgot I had fireworks!

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: quig on January 11, 2004, 05:02:33 PM

Have you tried Serif PhotoPlus 5.5 yet? It's the best free image editor I've found:

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=serif+photoplus+5.5&tg=dl-2001

Makes things easier than MS Paint.

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: United on January 11, 2004, 05:11:34 PM

Nope, but I'll give it a shot.  My editor is for Pictures only, so I'm willing to work with anything.

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: United on January 11, 2004, 07:29:50 PM

I tried the seriff, but I can't get the pictures saved as .bmp so it will work in AH.  How can I fix that?

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: Dux on January 11, 2004, 07:44:44 PM

Change the image to RGB mode before working on it... your palette will be unlimited then.

When done, save it back down to 8-bit (256 color) mode. If you have the options of "adaptive palette" and "diffusion dithering", I'd recommend using them.

ps. Don't forget to vertically flip the default texture first.

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: United on January 11, 2004, 07:51:51 PM

I dont have any choices to change to RGB color mode in MS paint.  Or at least none that I can find...

:confused: :confused:

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: zmeg on January 11, 2004, 08:01:12 PM

You just save as 24 bit bmp

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: United on January 11, 2004, 08:08:02 PM

Ah, thanks. :aok

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: quig on January 12, 2004, 04:32:52 AM

You can save as a .bmp or .jpg by clicking File>Export.

In the box that comes up, click 'Optimizer' and you can change the bit depth, dithering etc..

But you probably got all that figured out by now :)

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: United on January 12, 2004, 04:59:12 PM

When I go to convert the file "LA72.bmp" to a 16bit color mode, It screws up and all the details, coloring, and things change completely!!!

I got it to work fine on LA7.bmp.

:confused: :confused: :confused:

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: zmeg on January 12, 2004, 05:21:43 PM

MS Paint will always mess up colors when converting, photoshop or psp do a much nicer job.

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: United on January 12, 2004, 05:28:23 PM

One more question, and thanks.

I made a new skin for LA7, I added it into texsrc, and I opened AH.  It didnt work.  What now?

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: Dux on January 12, 2004, 05:52:30 PM

Quote

Originally posted by United
One more question, and thanks.

I made a new skin for LA7, I added it into texsrc,    -----> whole buncha steps missing here <----     and I opened AH.  It didnt work.  What now?

Did you build it into a terrain? The skins in AH ONLY work if you build it into a terrain, and then ONLY in that one terrain.

After you build the terrain, you must place that terrain.res file into your AH terrains folder, and then you must load that terrain through the Setup button in the clipboard.

As long as people keep asking, I'll keep saying: It's all in the HELP file.  :)

Good luck.

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: United on January 12, 2004, 06:25:58 PM

Heh, I did do all of that, for some reason it didnt show... I'll try it again, maybe I did something wrong.

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: United on January 12, 2004, 06:33:08 PM

OOPS!!

Forgot to go into TE and build map again!!

Got it, thanks!

Title: Skin editing question
Post by: Dux on January 12, 2004, 07:30:44 PM

No prob :)  it's usually something simple.

Show us a pic of the LA-7 if you can.

[edit: Never mind, I saw the pic in Bullethead's thread. Nice work... you're off to a good start.]