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[Circee]

Why do you say Never use MS Paint?

as far as I can see, ellent program... I use it, save in gif or bmp, depending, but whatever gif it use, then I use PSP to convert it into whatever format I need.

so far I can say, there is no looking difference between 89-a interlaced and 87-a non-interlaced...




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[kobayashi]

MS paint cannot save the correct palette that is required for Civ2 gifs. So even though it looks right, even if you just load a Civ2 gif and then save it without doing anything, it will be ruined and will not work.

 

[Field Marshal Klesh]

Hmmm, my MSPaint doesn't allow to save as .gif

. Do you have some kind of newer version?

 

[Circee]

OK, I understand...

Anyway, I use it only with bitmap, and only for cut-and-paste... I use PSP for convert, but the minimum possible: I can't got this program to work corectly because it's much too complicated and much too different from what I had known...


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[xeven_god_of_helsibahr]

HA!!! WRONG KOBAYASHI!!! I use MSPaint all the time and my FW still loads the gifs/bmps. Hell, I don't even use the civ pallet!

 

[Circee]

I'm niot sure, but possibly differences between FW and MGE may explain this?

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[xeven_god_of_helsibahr]

ONE THING I NEED TO KNOW:

WHAT DOES MGE MEAN?!?

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OH! My fricken head! I'm so wasted!

 

[Circee]

Multiplayer
+Gold
<u>+Edition</u>
MGE



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[xeven_god_of_helsibahr]

OH!! DUDE!!!

I AM WRONG

!!!! I DON'T HAVE FW!!! I have Multiplayer Gold!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kobayashi]

I just wanted to clarify a few things.

I am not the one who said 'never use MS Paint'. I always use MS Paint, it is the easiest to use and it has all the basic tools I need.

I never use gifs only bmps for all my scenarios. (that's why I can use MS Paint)

I use Adobe Photo Deluxe for resizing and changing things like contrast, brightness.

I only use PSP for the title.gif which absolutely must be a gif unlike all the other graphic files. Typically I make the title pic first elsewhere and then load up an existing title from somewhere eles and then paste my own title over it.

To save as gif from MS Paint, choose File/Save As, and then below where you enter the save name is a pull down menu for many different kinds of formats.

The civ palette is not something you use. It is the set of colours that civ2 recognises in a gif. If the palette of your gif is different from the 'accepted' palette, Civ2 will not accept the gif.




[This message has been edited by kobayashi (edited April 24, 2001).]

 

[Field Marshal Klesh]

Originally posted by kobayashi:

To save as gif from MS Paint, choose File/Save As, and then below where you enter the save name is a pull down menu for many different kinds of formats.

Unfortunately my only options for 'saving as' are:

Monochrome Bitmap
16 Color Bitmap
256 Color Bitmap
24-bit Bitmap
JPEG Interchangeable format

I've looked all over, and I just don't think I can do it. No problem though, as I can just have someone make my title into a gif.

 

[kobayashi]

Must be a different version because I have the gif in between the 24-bit Bitmap and JPEG Interchangeable format you put down above.

Tried looking for the versin number of my MS Paint but there isn't any. As you siad, no big deal. Editing gifs in MS Paint wouldn't work anyway.

 

[ahenobarb]

Any idea how to get past the expired Paint Shop Pro 7 screen. I only use this program to convert my units.gif file to the .gif 89a that civ recognizes. I deleted the old paint shop pro and downloaded a new demo copy, but there must be a file on my computer that is telling the new version that I have used it before.

Or better yet, anybody know another program that con do the same thing. I have MS Photodraw which claims to have this ability, yet it is not explained in the help file.

 

[allhailIndia]

I have the same problem. I cannot convert my bmp files into .gif . I guess the best way is to use PSP. I havent tried it yet, but hope to do so when it comes with my new system.

[This message has been edited by allhailIndia (edited April 30, 2001).]