I'm a newb, who someday wants to make my own tiles. I think redviewer seems to be the tool.
I loaded a tile .bmp into redviewer, then when I try to convert BMP to ZAR
it asks for some Pallet? file. Fallout tactics didn't come with any .pal files that I could find?
Pallet ?...
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I think you have to save the .BMP file in 256-color format. The program will select 256 colors to use in your .BMP file. That's the palette. I think that if your .BMP file already has a palette defined in it, you won't be asked for the palette. More detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmap_Image
Photoshop and some other programs call the palette the "Color Index".
There's a pretty good tutorial on Redviewer either here at DAC, at NMA, or at The Radiated Society, but I think it assumes some knowledge of palettes (which I didn't have until about 2 weeks ago).
As an alternative, if you save your .BMP to a 256-color .PNG file, then start the FOT editor, you will see an option to "convert PNG to ZAR". This will also let you convert whole directories of .PNGs to .ZARs.
Photoshop and some other programs call the palette the "Color Index".
There's a pretty good tutorial on Redviewer either here at DAC, at NMA, or at The Radiated Society, but I think it assumes some knowledge of palettes (which I didn't have until about 2 weeks ago).
As an alternative, if you save your .BMP to a 256-color .PNG file, then start the FOT editor, you will see an option to "convert PNG to ZAR". This will also let you convert whole directories of .PNGs to .ZARs.
