Adding a new MapImage to a custom Civ

[danielisamazing]

so I made a custom Civ and added a .dds map image for my new civ, yet when I go to game set up, it said it could not load the image.

and yes VFS is set to true.

any help would be appreciated

 

[Nutty]

Attach the built mod so we don't have to guess.

 

[Pouakai]

I would say check everywhere to make sure the spelling is the same - I've had lots of cases where I made a typo somewhere and fixing it got the image to show up.

If that fails, you might need to compress the image a bit when saving it as a .dds file - I know GIMP can do this, not sure about anything else

 

[Murphy613]

Make sure it has an alpha layer.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Also ensure the format is correct. It should be 360 x 412 pixels; also, I make sure my Civ 5 .dds files are saved/exported in GIMP in the BC2/DXT3 compression format.

 

[danielisamazing]

nice, it's working now.
I added an alpha layer and compressed it as BC2/DXT3. I'm not sure which one solved it, but thanks guys

 

[Murphy613]

nice, it's working now.
I added an alpha layer and compressed it as BC2/DXT3. I'm not sure which one solved it, but thanks guys

It was the alpha layer. Compression is useful but not necessary. When I started modding I had no clue I needed an alpha layer for all the images and spent hours wondering why they didn't work.

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

It was the alpha layer. Compression is useful but not necessary. When I started modding I had no clue I needed an alpha layer for all the images and spent hours wondering why they didn't work.

That's odd, as I was thinking exactly the opposite but didn't want to say . I don't put on an alpha layer, but it doesn't work unless I compress it in that manner. Maybe you have to do one or the other?