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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Ares III on December 07, 2006, 03:36:40 pm

Title: .eff file not working -- need help
Post by: Ares III on December 07, 2006, 03:36:40 pm
Being too lazy to find the programs necessary to create .ani files from .pcx images, I have instead decided to embrace the system of using DDS files with .eff definitions to make animations for shields and the like. However, my first attempt at making such a shield has failed. How does one use these files? And can they be used as shields?

EDIT:
By shields, of course, I mean the ani files that display on the hud that show your shield quadrants.

EDIT:
Okay, by switching it to 32-bit RGBA DDS format and alpha mapping it, I have managed to make it visible, but it is now a solid white box. What is going on?

ONE FINAL EDIT:
Lack of hud icon was due to my own stupidity. Disregard this post, as I put the shield icon in effects rather than hud folder.