Everytime I try to replace the symbols for the original religons, and save it as a .tga file, the game crashes as it loads. Has anyone figured out how to edit these two files properly?

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ohh man my alergies have just been driving me nuts. :p :)

There was a thread not too long ago where Kael gave some tips on that: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=156677&highlight=GameFont

I don't think I ever had it cause crashes, but that file gave me tons of trouble when I tried to add my Shinto symbols to it. It caused the wrong icons to pop up in several different places, and I'm still not sure what I did wrong. I just kept redoing it until it worked and got some help from the people on this forum. That file is cursed or something. :egypt:

There was a thread not too long ago where Kael gave some tips on that: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=156677&highlight=GameFont

I don't think I ever had it cause crashes, but that file gave me tons of trouble when I tried to add my Shinto symbols to it. It caused the wrong icons to pop up in several different places, and I'm still not sure what I did wrong. I just kept redoing it until it worked and got some help from the people on this forum. That file is cursed or something. :egypt:

Yeah, I have to agree with the cursed assessment. It takes a lot of playing to get it to work right. Im getting ready to build the phase 2 one right now and Im not looking forward to it.

Ahh, thank you dual. I had looked through the forums, but somehow I missed this thread. Tottemo helpful desu.

Read this thread, too, Sailor. (Start w/post #14) If you're editing them in Gimp I may be able to give you some useful pointers.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=156677

This is driving me insane. As far as I can tell I have got the icons all in the right place and my alpha channel is fine. Everytime I try to load the game though, it just crashes. I can't even get the problems listed in the thread dual posted to happen. If I post my .tga files, would someone be willing to take a look at it?

Go ahead and post it, I'll look at it a bit. Though it's likely I won't be able to find anything wrong either.

This thread also gives a very in-depth explanation of EXACTLY the problem:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=150737

... with illustrations. Scroll all the way down to the 3rd post (VERY far down, these posts are huge!) to where KingTux provides actual screenshots illustrating the exact problem -- he also provides an explanation having to do with alpha channels (which I have no clue about as I don't use PhotoShop).

For me I'm going to experiment with being VERY anal about cutting and pasting and using his screenshots as my EXACT guide for where I should NOT be touching pixels, even if _I_ can't see the mysterious alpha channel.

Or you could use JPEGS and edit the files with Gimp. No alpha channels to worry about. And it's much easier to see whether or not you've pasted the icons properly.

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Ok, I just figured out what i was doing wrong. Do you ever have one of those moments where you just feel like a complete and total IDIOT? Insted of being smart and just saving the .psd files I kyped from Kael and modified, I was copy and pasting the modified tiles into a clean .tga file copied from the vanilla assets folder.

Watakushi wa baka baka tenko desu yo. (I am a stupid stupid fox)

Ok, now they work fine. Thank you so much everyone for helping me out. I will be updating my Harry Potter mod, probably tomorrow night with new religions.