LBM creation question. - Page 2

DRG · #1 September 18th, 2005, 12:26 PM

Wow ... that certainly sounds interesting. Can you post a random sample of the pics you've done here? Maybe a couple dozen random samples.

Don

cusbut · #2 September 18th, 2005, 01:30 PM

Not a problem these are a few random lbms

DRG · #3 September 18th, 2005, 02:12 PM

While I applaud the work you have done but I wish, for your sake, you had asked about this when you first started and I would have given you a couple of suggestions that would have saved you some problems

Most of the pics do not use the correct, abbreviated PIC palette I provided in the games \Game Data\Design\Palettes folder for WinSPMBT. The one you need for B&W use is JASC_WINSP_PICPAL.pal. If you use any other palette for B&W you risk the a "shimmering" effect when the game is run on some systems. These are shades of grey used by the game for smoke etc and if they get into an LBM you will see twinkling. When I find a PIC that does this I fix it but they are not common but all pics should use JASC_WINSP_PICPAL.pal to elliminate any chance that may happen. The reason I have not done this for every PIC in the game is there are now 4,390 in the game and redoing each one is, as you know, a bit tedious

However, I think for the most part you may be OK with the "red bands" palette you have used for most of them but I found two in that sample that use the entire palette so those "smoke" greys are included in your PIC. PM23107 and PM23109 both have the full palette and both pics contain a number of pixels that come from the last row of greys that are used by the games for colour cycling

This is quite a project you've taken on. Good luck with it

Don

cusbut · #4 September 18th, 2005, 02:22 PM

Thanks for the tip, I was aware that some would shimmer, because I initially started with the old DOS SPMBT pallette and didnt realise the palette had changed until about 1000 odd pics later, but never fear I plan on testing and redoing any pics on completion. A labour off love as they say, lol

blazejos · #5 September 18th, 2005, 09:23 PM

I made some color intro Lbm's . Moust of them are with "western" equipment and soliders. So I made with "eastern". Here are pic from war in Chechenia , Iraq with Warsaw pact equipment and from rusian intervention in Afganistan. Pic are from range 1500 to 15117 is that posible to coded this range for use as intro pictures in game?