Modding Questions

[Bowlingballhead]

Oh, and I learned a couple of things in the process. We definitely need a command to change the leadership abilities of a unit. Very muchly. And the special powers of items (like the whip of command or elemental armor) hard-coded onto a unit do not work! That one, alas, I doubt is going to be fixed. It seems to me that it would be hard to code.

[Targa]

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[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
Gimp is really confusing. I redid the buffaloes in it, and they look a lot better now. Anyone know how to set the rulers in Gimp to use pixels instead of inches? They did at first, but now they don't anymore.

Follow the /etc directory under GIMP. At the end of it is some config files (plain text) where you can make more permanent changes

[Bowlingballhead]

Merci. I sent the basic Version to IllWinter.

[Saber Cherry]

I put in a few more monsters, and touched up the buffalo - they're all in the "MonsterLand" file, which can be found here:

http://www.geocities.com/saber_marionette_cherry/Files/

As for getting things to Illwinter, um - I tried that address and it seems their virus filter is down, so you may want to use this:

dom2contrib at yahoo dot com

[Arralen]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
Other Gimp issues:

I copied some parts of a picture in Gimp and pasted to a new file (which starts with a checkerboard background...). But the new file is exactly large enough for what I paste into it. I figured out how to expand the file ("canvas", as they call it) to give working room, but there is an outline of the original canvas size, and the the area beyond that - even though it looks usable - is not usable. I cannot find how to expand the border.

Look at the layers submenue (IIRC) .. something like "set layers to pic size" or something. GIMP handles cut'n'paste as a floating layer .. unless you try to save the file as tga, which doesn't know about layers.

Internally GIMP uses it's .xcf format - even if you open a tga.

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[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:

As for getting things to Illwinter, um - I tried that address and it seems their virus filter is down, so you may want to use this:

dom2contrib at yahoo dot com

I believe the fiter is down. We got the UlmPunk mod. Send mods to info. The contrib adress was a temporary solution and I do not know the password (JK has it though).

[Bowlingballhead]

Ah, well. Turns out I missed a hero, so UlmPunk's going to have to be updated a bit sooner than I'd anticipated. I guess I'll get to work on it!