Duck and Cover

Strapon2 wrote:is there anyway to view the charactor sprites? i cant find them anywhere

You need to unpack them before you can look at them.

Jinxed wrote:Is there any way to save with background transparency or without one at all? I'm talking about frm inventory files.

Did you want the original colours or what?

Technically, apart from the colour shift of course, my viewer preserve the colours. It just sets the alpha layer to 0 (transparant) when it encounters colours set to 255 or 128, so all you need to do if you don't want to use the alpha layer is remove it in whatever editor you're using... put it back to RGB indexed... Of course you'll need to make tsure that the "Anti Alias" option is off.

Dunno if this has been posted before, but when I open up one of Req's new blood tiles, tick "Ethereal," and Save, your the prog crashes with:
However, if I do the change and do Save As and give it a new filename (i.e. blood1eth.til), everythin's fine (although I dunno if the tile actually works in the game, but I'm guessing it does).

Just thought I'd give ya a heads up, Red ol' buddy ol' pal! *psst sprite editing!*

EDIT: It also happens if I don't make any changes and do Save, and it happens with the tiles that come with the game (the one I used was on of the corrugated wire fence tiles). My guess is that there's something wrong with Save that isn't wrong with Save As... Maybe the parsing of the filename is whacky?

Max-Violence wrote:Dunno if this has been posted before, but when I open up one of Req's new blood tiles, tick "Ethereal," and Save, your the prog crashes with:

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Run Time error 32

Bad file name or number

However, if I do the change and do Save As and give it a new filename (i.e. blood1eth.til), everythin's fine (although I dunno if the tile actually works in the game, but I'm guessing it does).

Just thought I'd give ya a heads up, Red ol' buddy ol' pal! *psst sprite editing!*

EDIT: It also happens if I don't make any changes and do Save, and it happens with the tiles that come with the game (the one I used was on of the corrugated wire fence tiles). My guess is that there's something wrong with Save that isn't wrong with Save As... Maybe the parsing of the filename is whacky?

Hmm I've just discovered that as well, and if I use Save As and overwrite a tile I then can't open it in Redviewer or the Level editor, If I want to keep the same name I have to save it in a different folder and then replace the original. Something similar also happens when trying to rename a tile in explorer, so maybe you just can't edit a tile.

Red, what I basically want is this:

Instead of this:

Oh, you WANT the transparancy. Well, you need a pic editor that properly supports TGA format and it's alpha layer and then save it into a GIF.

PS: I'll be looking at the "Save As..." bug as soon as I have time.

[edit] Ok, the bug is found and nailed. The problem was that I made a mistake in the Save routine for TILs and it uses a different procedure when using "Save As...". So meanwhile, use "Save As..." as it should work even if you overwrite an older file.

Note that if you use Save, VB actually creates the file and then crashes - which means it effectivly deletes the orginial! (saving in it nothing). I have VB. Anyway, don't "Save" until I make a patch. My program doesn't handle invalid files properly, this is why it then crashed when loading a "Save"d file.

updated revision history:I'll put this one up as soon as I can can as I think this is a major bug...

Next question, anyway to change the background into something other than that pearly white?

Course, go into... Oh crap, you reminded me of a bug...

Well, anyway, go into rendering -> Background colour and choose something.

Note that in DirectX rendering I forget to "fix" the colours, so if you select anythign else then a shade of gray expect another colour to pop up instead.

Bah, I'm trying to export a pic into a TGA file with a different background.

The background colour is set by the original picture.

The colour you specify in the viewer is just the background colour and has nothing to do with what you specify in my viewer.

YOU NEED AN EDITOR THAT CAN HANDLE PROPERLY THE ALPHA LAYER IN TGAs.

Either that or revert the image back to indexed and tell your editor to use the proper colour as a background.

BTW, the DirectX8 background colour conversion problem is fixed...

I was hoping I could take a major short cut with your program, guess not. I know how to work it all otherwise, but the process is a pain in the ass and some items require it done by hand.

I guess I should support an indexed format at least for FRMs. I was working on that a while back but DirectX gave me some trouble with palette management. What do you mean "having it don by hand", you make the shape of the transparancy by hand?

Which graphic editor program are you using anyway?

PSP7.

I set the background trasparent, problem is, some pics have elements of the same white inside them... which creates holes. You can see it on the gauss clip if you look closely.