City Graphic Help

Celeborn · Apr 11, 2003

Can Anybody tell me how to get rid of the pink line around the city that i made

Procifica · Apr 11, 2003

Wow...weird graphic there. Try editing the city graphic you're using.

Celeborn · Apr 11, 2003

i have (using photoshop) but i just cant get the line to go away, i just got an idea tough.

ps. i made that city graphic from scratch

Celeborn · Apr 11, 2003

AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!

almost but not quite...

Celeborn · Apr 11, 2003

what do you people think of it anyway?

its a hobbit hole for those who dont know (hopefully not many of you here)

Drift · Apr 11, 2003

1. Check that all of the pink background is 255/0/255. It's very possible that the city graphics have a pink lining that isn't 255/0/255 but very close and is therefore very hard to notice.
2. You are not resizing the picture from a larger one with a pink background? It may cause the colors to mix up near the borders.

So study the image's palette. There should be only one shade of pink (255/0/255). If there is more, you've found your problem.

Sir John · Apr 11, 2003

Its good, but it has to fit into all evironments, meaning it wouldnt look good in tundra or desert and so on since it would be very cut of.. Im not sure on how to change this tough...

Risbinroch · Apr 11, 2003

I don't know if this is helpful, but with Icon pictures that has pink spots, I just lower brightness and contrast and the pink spots disappear.

LBPB · Apr 11, 2003

Originally posted by Drift
1. Check that all of the pink background is 255/0/255. It's very possible that the city graphics have a pink lining that isn't 255/0/255 but very close and is therefore very hard to notice.
2. You are not resizing the picture from a larger one with a pink background? It may cause the colors to mix up near the borders.

So study the image's palette. There should be only one shade of pink (255/0/255). If there is more, you've found your problem.

I think drift is right, that's the reason you have this pink line

mrtn · Apr 11, 2003

You have probably cut and pasted this with "anti-aliasing" on. Whereever you see it, turn it off.
Did you see my hobbit city, btw? there's a preview in the LOTR thread started by yodapower.

Celeborn · Apr 13, 2003

Originally posted by Sir John
Its good, but it has to fit into all evironments, meaning it wouldnt look good in tundra or desert and so on since it would be very cut of.. Im not sure on how to change this tough...

i know what you mean, but i cant really picture a hobit making his home on either of those terrains

Celeborn · Apr 13, 2003

pretty much got it, but there is still one or two pinks dots

thamis · Apr 13, 2003

This occurs if you work in RGB colour in photoshop and resize it. It anti-aliases (makes a mix of pink and green) around the corners to make it look softer. Whenever you work on CIV3 graphics you have to turn antialiasing off. Also, before you resize, always go to indexed colour, then it doesn't antialias.

Ukas · Apr 13, 2003

True.

Some of the city view graphics may use 255,1,255 for a change, at least WON_Pyramid_D.pcx.

Also when you paste something on that 255,0,255 magenta background anti-aliasing occurs in rgb mode. I sometimes like to resize in rgb mode though, because the graphics may change too much in indexed mode.

Civ3 also needs that magenta has index number 0 in photoshop, in some other programs it must the last color on the palette/color table. It's also useful to give green (r0,g255,b0) number 1 in photoshop.

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