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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Grey Wolf on March 14, 2001, 07:58:00 pm

Title: Skins Problems
Post by: Grey Wolf on March 14, 2001, 07:58:00 pm

I've been having some problems with editing the skins for some FS1 ships. I tried redoing the Athena in red, for example. I opened it in Kodak Imaging, copied it, and pasted it in a new picture of the same size and shape because the program doesn't let you overwrite or edit existing files.  I saved it as a bitmap, converted it to a jpeg, and then finally converted it to a .pcx file. But for some reason, FreeSpace wouldn't recognize the file. Help!

Title: Skins Problems
Post by: Shrike on March 14, 2001, 08:40:00 pm

Is it a 256 color pcx file?

Title: Skins Problems
Post by: Setekh on March 14, 2001, 09:52:00 pm

Is it in the FS2 directory? (Though I think Shrike has the right question here.)

Title: Skins Problems
Post by: Grey Wolf on March 15, 2001, 08:14:00 pm

Thanks Shrike. That's what I needed to know.  I accidently had it as 24 bit.

Title: Skins Problems
Post by: Shrike on March 15, 2001, 08:45:00 pm

I've had this happen to me, so I figured that you might have the same problem.

Title: Skins Problems
Post by: NeoHunter on March 16, 2001, 03:00:00 am

I think all FreeSpace graphics need to be in 256 colours or they just won't work. I was playing around with making a blue beam and came across this same problem.

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Title: Skins Problems
Post by: IPAndrews on March 16, 2001, 11:12:00 am

 

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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009:
I've been having some problems with editing the skins for some FS1 ships

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Title: Skins Problems
Post by: Setekh on March 17, 2001, 04:21:00 am

 

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Originally posted by NeoHunter:
all FreeSpace graphics need to be in 256 colours

Title: Skins Problems
Post by: Grey Wolf on March 18, 2001, 12:32:00 pm

I converted it to 256 colors and it still isn't working. Is there a certain color I need for the background?