Aces High Bulletin Board

General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: sizzle22 on June 07, 2011, 09:55:28 PM

Title: gunsites
Post by: sizzle22 on June 07, 2011, 09:55:28 PM

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.    :salute

Title: Re: gunsites
Post by: LThunderpocket on June 16, 2011, 12:46:24 AM

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

Title: Re: gunsites
Post by: sizzle22 on June 18, 2011, 11:49:29 PM

GIMP

Title: Re: gunsites
Post by: RTHolmes on June 19, 2011, 06:44:20 AM

Quote from: RTHolmes on May 21, 2011, 04:39:56 AM

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.

;)