Chittering Clawbug Iluvhorses Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Ok, I'm slightly confused and I'm just starting LOL. I've been reading up on how to put in pictures for the intro text and I have a couple of questions. 1. What are sheets?? 2. How do I find out if a picture I want to use is at 72 dpi and if it's 8 or 16 bit? I've been trying but can't find any such info on the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Quote: Originally written by iluvhorses:Ok, I'm slightly confused and I'm just starting LOL. I've been reading up on how to put in pictures for the intro text and I have a couple of questions. 1. What are sheets?? If you're on Windows, a sheet is an individual graphics file. For example, if inside a scenario folder you see a file with a name like G500.bmp, that's a sheet. If you're on Mac OS, a sheet is an individual resource number within the scenario's .cmg file. Quote: 2. How do I find out if a picture I want to use is at 72 dpi and if it's 8 or 16 bit? I've been trying but can't find any such info on the picture. Most images designed to be displayed on a computer screen are at 72 dpi. 8 bit means 256 colours; 16 bit means thousands of colours. (A good graphic editing program should be able to tell you the colour depth of an image.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 By the way, looking at examples (like Valley of the Dying Things) is very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chittering Clawbug Iluvhorses Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 Thanks guys I've figured out how to do it, but I do have another slight problem. The picture that I want to use, although it's 406x450, it's also about 530K. Is there anyway I can make it smaller without making the picture look smaller??? I was looking at the VoDT's cmg files, and the pics are like 73k, 40k, and yet they look bigger than my picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 One way to reduce file size is to reduce the colour depth to 8-bit. This will give you a very significant improvement in file size, but may make the colours look a little funny. Try it and see how it works. Don't worry too much if the image ends up big, though. It'll compress down fairly well, so it certainly won't add 530 kB to the actual download size of the scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chittering Clawbug Iluvhorses Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 It already is 8-bit. Ok, I reduced the size just to see if the 530k was what my problem was. I kept getting an error message when i would try to enter the scenario. Error message is: Error! The game just failed to load this graphic: sheet 550, icon 0. the editor might have run out of memory but more likely the graphic it was trying to find wasn't there. What did I do wrong? I even numbered it 500 and it still didn't work. I have the cmg file in the scenario file, and I have the resource number in the field for intro text, so... could it be because I haven't actually designed anything for the scenario yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Now that you mention it, there might be a maximum file size on images. Try to reduce it as best you can, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chittering Clawbug Iluvhorses Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 I reduced it to about 112K and still got the error message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Is everything named properly? That is, if your scenario's bas file is titled horses.bas (for example), your cmg file should be titled horses.cmg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chittering Clawbug Iluvhorses Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 Yup, things are named properly. It's actually .cmg.rsrc (i'm using ResFool), but the names are correct. Could the .rsrc be the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast *i Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 That might be it. Every working file I see has a .cmg tag, not a .cmg.rscr tag. Try removing the .rscr part and see it works. If not, create a new .cmg file in ResFool and copy a couple images from an existing, working .cmg file for another scenario and try that one with your scenario. If it works, then try copying your original image in; it not, then we'll get to that if it comes up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Swimmin' Salmon Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 The error mentioned G550.bmp You mentioned G500.bmp Is this the problem? *this message sponsored by the number 5* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Yeah, it has to have just .cmg as the extension. The Finder will probably complain if you try to remove the .rsrc extension, but ignore it and do so anyway. Quote: The error mentioned G550.bmp You mentioned G500.bmp Is this the problem? I took her post to imply that she'd tried using several different sheet numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chittering Clawbug Iluvhorses Posted January 11, 2006 Author Share Posted January 11, 2006 I got it to work! I decided to download ResEdit and use that instead, and it worked this time. It was ResFool's problem, it wasn't working at all with ResFool for some reason, even though it says in the editor manual that you can use ResFool. Anyway,thanks for your help guys, it works now!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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