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Title: new gunsights
Post by: scooby on February 03, 2002, 02:52:18 PM

i got saw some really good sights off of http://paparomeo.freeyellow.com
theyre gunsights for EAW, but is it possible to convert them to AH compatible files??
i really would like to
please reply to this if you know how to...
Scooby:confused:

Title: new gunsights
Post by: Kratzer on February 03, 2002, 04:00:06 PM

In a program like photoshop, you just need to save them as an indexed color bitmap with that pretty purple color for the background.

Title: and.....
Post by: scooby on February 03, 2002, 07:30:57 PM

and what if i dont have photoshop........:confused:

Title: new gunsights
Post by: Kratzer on February 03, 2002, 07:40:27 PM

I suppose you could do it in paint shop pro.

Title: and
Post by: scooby on February 03, 2002, 07:43:32 PM

and if i dont have any sort of paint programs except for MS Paint.........:confused:

Title: new gunsights
Post by: scooby on March 03, 2002, 09:33:05 PM

ok i downloaded the trial photoshop, and now can someone tell me how i go about converting these BMP files to indexed color bitmaps...as they are for our default gunsights...

any help would be appreciated

Scooby:confused:

Title: Give me a second..
Post by: Qnm on March 03, 2002, 10:08:19 PM

Popup frenzied webmaster.

Title: new gunsights
Post by: Qnm on March 03, 2002, 10:44:33 PM

Paint bucket (no anti-aliasing, 0 tolerance) the verified same pink instead of the EAW original black.  
Seen pink in AH.
Checked format: indexed color, 8 bit, no RLE compression, Windows format of course.
No change.
Changed Indexed color format's color table (PSv5.5: Image>Mode>(Indexed color is checked)Color table) to include only the used colors.
No change.
Pasted the EAW gunsight onto a working AH sight, with AH.bmp color table changed to include EAW gunsight's used colors (even though they are the same at this point).
Still pink.

Remake each EAW gunsight by hand over working AH template bmp?
Tedious, and someone must know how to make them compatible very quickly.

Will do it in a few days if no one does, though.

Title: new gunsights
Post by: scooby on March 03, 2002, 11:00:52 PM

thanks
i dont think anyone will do it tho, n i probably wont be able to figure the first step out let alone the whole thing....


if oyu oculd, plz convert them??.....thanks a bunch for your info


Scooby:D

Title: new gunsights
Post by: Tumor on March 03, 2002, 11:51:18 PM

...lay off the retarded pop-ups will ya?

Title: new gunsights
Post by: Tumor on March 03, 2002, 11:53:18 PM

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Originally posted by Tumor
...lay off the retarded pop-ups will ya?

ooops..sorry scooby.  Thought that was your site.  Normally by the second pop-up I'm hitting that little x up in the tip right corner of the screen.  Hate that crap.

Title: new gunsights
Post by: Kratzer on March 03, 2002, 11:58:06 PM

send the sights you want changed to bob.lefevre@shlgroup.com and I'll screw with them when I'm back at work on wednesday.

Title: new gunsights
Post by: Qnm on March 04, 2002, 10:29:06 AM

figured it out.
will have time tonight.

Title: new gunsights
Post by: SKurj on March 04, 2002, 11:34:22 AM

most of those sights have been available for AH at one time or another already..

Have u checked the gunsight page?


SKurj