What's with the pink background for city graphics?
- Thread starter Emperor C
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vbraun
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About the question in the title: Pink is the color in which civ reads as transparent causing you to see (or at least what your suppose to see) as the terrain units or anything else.
About the question in your post: It has to do with the pallete that is used. If the pink isnt in the right spot it won't be transparent.
About the question in your post: It has to do with the pallete that is used. If the pink isnt in the right spot it won't be transparent.
256 colors, palette
Red = 255
Green = 0
Blue = 255
Also, you can just use the eye-dropper to get the correct color.
Unless Rufus erred in the actual creation, it's likely you altered something - maybe shrunk/enlarged the image? What ends up happening in those cases is that the image stretches/compacts and thus the image blends with the surrounding pink. The bordering pixels may then become a color somewhere between the 2 adjacent colors, thus producing an off-pink image that doesn't become transparent in game.
If you were altering the image size, here's a correct way to do so:
Copy the image onto a new canvas where the background is transparent. Remove all the pink, so you only have the actual image left. Make your size adjustments, then copy the image and place it back on the proper pink background.
EDIT: and yes Photoshop works, I believe Paintshop is fine as well. You essentially are looking for anything that can handle a pcx image.
Red = 255
Green = 0
Blue = 255
Also, you can just use the eye-dropper to get the correct color.
Unless Rufus erred in the actual creation, it's likely you altered something - maybe shrunk/enlarged the image? What ends up happening in those cases is that the image stretches/compacts and thus the image blends with the surrounding pink. The bordering pixels may then become a color somewhere between the 2 adjacent colors, thus producing an off-pink image that doesn't become transparent in game.
If you were altering the image size, here's a correct way to do so:
Copy the image onto a new canvas where the background is transparent. Remove all the pink, so you only have the actual image left. Make your size adjustments, then copy the image and place it back on the proper pink background.
EDIT: and yes Photoshop works, I believe Paintshop is fine as well. You essentially are looking for anything that can handle a pcx image.
Chieftess said:
That's absolutely wrong. It doesn't matter what colour it is, the important thing is that the last two (photoshop) / first two (paintshop pro) colours in the palette isn't used in the anything other than the background.Just to give an example my elven cities have red background...
I have a link to a tutorial in my sig on how to get correct transparency in Photoshop.
Pounder
Phaethon was here
There is one file that bucks the pattern. The territory file uses palette position 1 and position 255 for transparency. It uses position 240-254 for varying levels of translucence.
Or it will only muck it up more. If the palette is mostly greens and you try to add a red city, you'll get maybe two colours that fit, i e it will look awful. If Emperor C use Photoshop he really should look at my tutorial. This will give him the best palette possible.Willem said:
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