modding diplomacy costs & question on pcx

[sandoval]

2 quick questions,

1. i used to be able to edit the cost of the various diplomacy/spy options, but the button to edit base cost somehow has disappeared. i've tried both the hacked and unhacked versions of the civ3editor.

2. i've gone through the unit graphics mod tutorial and the units work almost perfectly except for one annoying glitch. the icons do not show up properly on the tech tree/civilopedia. they show up in the correct spots but the icons don't display, all i get are black boxes where the icons should be. i've checked the xxxsmall.pcx and xxxlarge.pcx files and they seem to be ok. any suggestions why this isn't working?

 

[tpasmall]

I have the answer to your second question You have to make a place for the icons in your PediaIcons text file.

#ICON_PRTO_Tie_Interceptor
art\civilopedia\icons\units\77Interceptorlarge.pcx
art\civilopedia\icons\units\77Interceptorsmall.pcx

This is an example of what it should look like.

Hope that helps.

 

[Kal-el]

I was having the same problem. You need to switch the image to indexed from, most likely RGB.

At which point you will probabaly have to edit the palette to get rid of the transparency problem. One way to do this is to go into the palette and change the last color to civ pink 255/0/255.

for some reason this does not always work. when the above fails I usually find an image in the game that I know does work and then save that palette, open the image that you want to edit and load the saved palette. Try and find an image that closely matches your new image’s color scheme or you will lose color quality.

I use paint shop pro for this.

 

[sandoval]

thx thx

 

[Kal-el]

no problem! glad to be of service.