Diplomacy Picture

[Darth-Griffin]

Q. How do you change the default diplomacy image for the Empire as i cannot find the .bmp for it in any of the resource files.

 

Please help!!!!

[AdmiralToguroAni]

Hm...I know that the big ones are in the encyclopedia folder, or Edata. The pics that appear in the window are, I believe, in the Gokres.dll folder (incidentally, the one you want is entry 7184). Finally, the teeny tiny pictures that you see when you right click the mission icon on the bottom right of a planet are also in Gokres (in your case, you want entry 23568).

 

Be careful, however. The tiny picture seems to be more picky about what colors you use, and therefore can look screwy, even if you use the same palette for the previous entry! Hope that helps.

 

--Admiral Toguro

[Darth-Griffin]

Thanks

 

My new one : >

 

http://diplomats-empire.com/tgn/diplomacy.jpg

 

Couldnt find a more appropriate one anywhere

[AdmiralToguroAni]

looks good. How does it look on the smallest setting? If its not messed up, how did you make it that way?

[Darth-Griffin]

I left the small one alone Couldnt work out the pallette problems. so gave up in the end

[Darth-Griffin]

###Removed### No need for post Edited June 18, 2005 by Darth-Griffin

[Darth-Griffin]

Aaah found it It was 417...something or another. Works fine in the game. Just used PSP to export the pallette from the old picture and then imported it to the new image. Used Irfanview to set the DPI and then Reshack to upload it all. Working fine in game now

 

Thanks for your help. However i am still on the lookout for a better picture!!

[Darth-Griffin]

Hmmmn found this that i might use instead >>>>>

 

http://img105.echo.cx/img105/2685/eventurbansurge1sc.th.png

[AdmiralToguroAni]

how do you export the pallete and apply it to the new pic? I'm not really good with PSP

[Darth-Griffin]

I use PSP5 to start with

 

Open your saved Rebellion picture, go to 'colors', 'save pallette'. Give it a name such as 'DiplomacyPallette' and save is to your hd.

 

Now open the picture you want to use in rebed, resize it to the correct size, go to 'colors', 'load pallete' & then save the new picture.

 

Then open the program Irfanview go to 'image', 'information' and set teh dpi to 28. Use Irfanview to save teh pic as a .bmp & then the pic is ready to be used in rebellion

 

Hope that helps. Let me know if there are any more questions.

 

DG

[MDk]

There is another way to apply a pallete to a new picture: Open both the original and the new picture, resize the new picture to the correct size, then copy and paste the new picture as a new selction over the original picture and save under a new file-name. This way is a little bitte faster and no irfanview is needed.

[Darth-Griffin]

Do you not have to reduce that down to one layer as well

[MDk]

Well, of course it won't hurt to flatten all layers to one. But doesn't have bmps allways just one layer? But you are right, better first merge the layers before saving it.

[AdmiralToguroAni]

its odd. I saved my image (the default of image1.psimage) and I went to image,palette, but the "save palette" option is missing. Any ideas?

[Darth-Griffin]

did you save the original image as a .bmp?

[Darth-Griffin]

If all else fails drop me an email and i will zip you the pallete.

[AdmiralToguroAni]

Yeah, I cant seem to get it to work. Can you send it to FF7Turk@aol.com ? Thanks

[Darth-Griffin]

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