Interface templates beta, for creating custom interfaces for mods.
http://www.mediafire.com/?prrwmjzgnuwContents of readme below:
Requires:
Imagemagick is installed (
http://imagemagick.org)
Anibuilder
Aniview
nvDXT (provided for windows users, for converting to DDS)
Notes:
- Excludes preload, mainhall, medal screen and medals (as preload can be anything and recolours of the rest look crap)
- Only 1024x768 is available, as it was a total PITA to fix up templates for it, and I'm not going through that again
- Only batch files provided, as I do not have other environments to test with, nor do I know any shell scripting etc.
- Mixing DDS/TGA and PCX is possible, though not advised due to palette issues messing up colours (load priority is DDS --> TGA --> PCX)
- Use of DDS/TGA allows better colours/quality, but runs into palette issues with the loading screen animation and other ANIs
- Use of DDS results in better performance, but requires more disk space compared to TGA
- Use of PCX requires careful background image selection to minimise quality degradation
WARNING: conversion to PCX takes significant time
Usage:
1. Pick an interface colour and find its HSV value (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV, most graphics software can give you HSV values, or use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors)
note: mspaint does not give the correct values for this purpose
2. Assemble 1024x768 background images in "base" directory
3. Edit edit_me.bat (backed up as example.bat, which includes extra notes), replacing screen_base.TGA with desired background image for each screen
4. If desired (and is usually a good idea), run sample.bat (may be edited) and inspect the results in the "sample_output" directory
5. Run edit_me.bat and wait. Results will appear in the "output" directory
note: you will be asked whether you want to convert to DDS and PCX
6. If you wish to convert to DDS and did not do so in step 5, it can be done later by running make_dds.bat
note: 38 files (2_BAB_*.tga) will not be converted by nvDXT due to odd pixel height/width. Software such as GIMP may be used to convert the required files by opening TGA files in "output" and saving as DDS in "dds". Alternatively, the missing files can simply be substituted with tgas
7. If you wish to convert to PCX and did not do so in step 5, it can be done later by running make_pcx.bat
8. Swap the filenames 2_Loading0000.pcx and 2_Loading0007.pcx in the "load_temp" directory using swap_loading.bat
9. Create an ANI with anibuilder using default options (adapt to 1st frame, command briefing/techroom animation, 15 frames/sec)
10. Save the frames from the resulting ANI over the PCX files, then swap the 2 files again
11. Create the ANI again and copy to your desired location
12. (optional) Run make_load.bat from the command line (can be opened using open_prompt.bat) to create custom load screens for missions using:
make_load <path of background image> <destination>
These may also be converted to PCX or DDS using batch files if <destination> is the "output" directory
13. Copy the contents of either the "output" (TGA), "dds" (DDS) or "pcx" (PCX) directories to your desired location
14. (optional) Run clean.bat to remove files created by the other batch files