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All I want to do is have real flags, How do I do this?
How do I make real nation flags?
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You'll need to edit a number of civsymbolscolor***.dds files (starting with the 2048pixels wide & resizing down for all the supplemental versions) and fit whatever graphics you want into a circular framing. IIRC, there is a pseudo set of templates (Photoshop PSD format) in the SDK that will also need to be somehow cropped for the above framework. But wouldn't recommmend it since the transparency layer is not pre-configured in those. In the CFC library, somebody made valid "Files" for them with That.
Read this, first.
Then, decide on the necessary tools for the job; Gimp! 2.6 + its extra DDS plugin for conversion(s). Maybe, Paint.Net (plugin built-in) or even Corel PSPro X++ (if again the NVidia plugin is activated). I doubt, you'd want to spend thousand$ on Adobe Photoshop to replace symbols with flags only.
Mipmaps must be used and preferably No-Compression for precision_quality when saving your new files.
Dump the new flags into the Steam/Common/..Civ5../Resource/DX9 folder - they'll simply replace the Vanilla defaults.
Read this, first.
Then, decide on the necessary tools for the job; Gimp! 2.6 + its extra DDS plugin for conversion(s). Maybe, Paint.Net (plugin built-in) or even Corel PSPro X++ (if again the NVidia plugin is activated). I doubt, you'd want to spend thousand$ on Adobe Photoshop to replace symbols with flags only.
Mipmaps must be used and preferably No-Compression for precision_quality when saving your new files.
Dump the new flags into the Steam/Common/..Civ5../Resource/DX9 folder - they'll simply replace the Vanilla defaults.
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