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Lord Lothar

12-03-2002 04:55 PM

Currently I'm experimenting with making my own portraits for BG2. I wanted some WarCraft 3 pics for my portraits so I went to Battle.net and downloaded a few from their strategy guide. I also took some screenshots. Using photoshop I edited the ones from the strategy guide to the right size and saved them into my portraits folder as 8 bit pictures. The screenshots only save as 16, 24, or 32 bit pictures. I put them into my portraits folder. The ones from the guide work but the edited screeshots don't. Do the portraits have to be 8 bit or something? If so, how do I save them as 8 bit images?

Bardan the Slayer

12-03-2002 05:18 PM

I don't think that has anything to do with it, though I may be wrong. The pictures you edited, you're sure you saved them as bmp's?

Brennihelvete

12-03-2002 06:03 PM

try an older version of photoshop maybe?

andrewas

12-03-2002 06:30 PM

Quote:

The readme says:

Custom Portraits:

The measurements for player portraits are 38X60 pixels for
the smaller portraits (8-bit color runs faster but it can be
up to 24 bit color), and 110X170 pixels for the larger
portraits. To use a custom portrait, place it in the
Portraits directory (in the install directory for the game)
and add an S to the end of the small portrait name and an L
to the end of the large portrait - otherwise the two names
must be identical. The names must be 1-7 letters long,
maximum - so the filename with the S or L added to the end
is no longer than 8 total characters. The portrait files
must be in BMP format.

Im guessing that if you took them off the web they werent .bmps to begin with - people posting large .bmps to the web deserve to be *hurt* for it. Horrid things.

However, any decent graphics package can save as .bmp. You can even use MSpaint to do it, but photoshop does it as well. Just go into save as and chang the file type.

NiceWorg

12-03-2002 06:58 PM

MS Paint is really useful tool even today. Especially when quality programs such as Photo Paint tend to mess the picture when you change it to 8-bit.

Lord Lothar

12-03-2002 07:52 PM

Thanks for the advice but it still isn't working. Yes they are saved in bmp format yet strangely it's the screenshots that aren't working not the web pictures. I'll try using paint. BTW how many colours are in 8,16,24,32 bit?

LennonCook

12-05-2002 04:23 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lord Lothar:
Thanks for the advice but it still isn't working. Yes they are saved in bmp format yet strangely it's the screenshots that aren't working not the web pictures. I'll try using paint. BTW how many colours are in 8,16,24,32 bit?

Not many.
1 bit < 1 colour, I think.

Sodomatic Goat

12-05-2002 08:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by LennonCook:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Lord Lothar:
Thanks for the advice but it still isn't working. Yes they are saved in bmp format yet strangely it's the screenshots that aren't working not the web pictures. I'll try using paint. BTW how many colours are in 8,16,24,32 bit?

Not many.
1 bit < 1 colour, I think. [/QUOTE]Well eeeh not that I'm 100% sure but I'm pretty sure anyways that 1 bit = 1000 colours.

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