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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Alex Navarro on March 15, 2008, 09:26:39 am

Title: head ani problem
Post by: Alex Navarro on March 15, 2008, 09:26:39 am

Before starting: HELLO THERE!  :D

Now:
I've created a head ani, but i see it "distorted" when playing. For each pcx i've done a color saturation (true grey) and reduced to 256 grays. When playing i watch the entire head black, and some parts of the t-shirt and font green (my hud is green). I dont know how to put a screenshot, sorry. Excuse my english. Can you help me?

Title: Re: head ani problem
Post by: Water on March 15, 2008, 02:13:48 pm

Quote from: Alex Navarro on March 15, 2008, 09:26:39 am

grey) and reduced to 256 grays. When playing i watch the entire head black

I think it needs to be 16 grey. Take a head ani and check its pallete for number of greys.

Title: Re: head ani problem
Post by: Alex Navarro on June 18, 2008, 06:51:38 pm

Now I know how to put a screenshot. Here is the problem, people:
(http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/AlexNavarroW/Untitled.png)

Do you see that? Can you help me now, please?  :D
I tried everything... i think  :nervous:

Title: Re: head ani problem
Post by: 0rph3u5 on June 19, 2008, 12:49:03 am

Maybe this thread could help? (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,53593.0.html)

Title: Re: head ani problem
Post by: nubbles526 on June 19, 2008, 08:33:02 am

HOW COME NO ONE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THIS BEFORE??? It certainly does look useful. But where do you put this file?

Title: Re: head ani problem
Post by: Alex Navarro on June 19, 2008, 03:43:14 pm

Mmmmmmm... yesss................. i don't understand.  :p.
But i'm not using photoshop, it's a freeware (ai picture utility v8). A head ani is a lot of pcx files. Do i have to modify every pcx? I've got this head from an avi file (video). From this video, i've selected a secuence and divided it in pcx files. Then i've selected the ones i wanted (took some time). Then opened every pcx one by one and converted them to grey (took some time too). First with 256 grays. Then 16 grays as Water said. Both 256 and 16 failed.  :(. Oh, and tried with colors too.

Title: Re: head ani problem
Post by: Backslash on June 19, 2008, 05:56:30 pm

Ok, well sorry I don't know this AI picture utility, but if it helps I can tell you the exact palette necessary in hex:
000000
0F0F0F
232323
373737
474747
5B5B5B
6B6B6B
7F7F7F
8F8F8F
A3A3A3
B3B3B3
C7C7C7
DBDBDB
EBEBEB
FFFFFF
0000FF
00FF00
(and the rest of the palette is all 00FF00) so technically it's a 256 color palette but with only 16 unique colors (plus all the 00FF00 at the end)

Hope that helps.  There's gotta be a way to apply a certain palette to an existing pcx... if not, you'll have to find another program that does.  Good luck!

Title: Re: head ani problem
Post by: Alex Navarro on June 21, 2008, 07:38:54 am

Ah, thank you a lot, Backslash.  :D

I'm sure that's what i need. Thank you to everyone.  :yes: