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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Yoshimbo on November 23, 2006, 12:51:25 PM

Title: HLP! skin CTD!
Post by: Yoshimbo on November 23, 2006, 12:51:25 PM

made a skin fer t3h RV8, but when i try to look at it in the hangar my game CTD!:huh  nvr had this happen before does any1 know what could be wrong? when i edited it in Gimp, i got a message about sumthinlike "...can't handle transparencys..." or something like that, but i exported it and it showed up fine in the skin viewer. But when i select the RV8 now and it CTD. :cry :cry

Title: HLP! skin CTD!
Post by: Krusty on November 23, 2006, 01:08:33 PM

Is this your first skin?

Title: HLP! skin CTD!
Post by: Yoshimbo on November 23, 2006, 01:21:50 PM

no, i;ve made 'bout 5-6 other skins, before (None are historically accurate, just for fun) and i nvr had this problem, this IS however the first skin i've made in quite some time, perhaps i haev forgot to do something i should have?:confused: :cry

Title: HLP! skin CTD!
Post by: Krusty on November 23, 2006, 04:05:21 PM

Well, one of two things comes to mind:

1) There was a mistake/omission in the export

2) The RV8 just doesn't accept skins.


You've got a layered RGB file. Flatten the layers, change it to indexed 256 color (aka 8-bit) and save it as a bitmap.

or

Take the bmp you already exported for the RV8 and put it onto a p51 or something. It'll look like garbled crap, but if it shows up as garbled crap you know the bitmap *itself* is fine. If it crashes then you know it's the bitmap. If not then you know it's the RV8.

Title: HLP! skin CTD!
Post by: weazely on November 25, 2006, 10:15:55 PM

Krusty how do u make skins do u use Windows Paint?

Title: HLP! skin CTD!
Post by: Krusty on November 25, 2006, 10:47:58 PM

Replied in C205 thread

Title: HLP! skin CTD!
Post by: Yoshimbo on November 26, 2006, 08:16:46 AM

good ideas i'll try it:aok