Wonder Splash

[Jabie]

Don't have much in the way of an art editor so way scouring other games for possible pics for a Wonder Splash. Anyway I found a .gif in an old civ2 scenarios folder (A Picture of a Knight on a horse fighting a battle)

Copied the pic to the Wonder Splash location of my mod (wherein I also have copies of other wonder spalshes from C3C) renamed it to .pcx checked thiat this was still valid in MS Picture It (All I've got for manipulating art *Sigh*) It worked fine.

Added "King Richards Crusade" to my mod at minimal cost and no tech requirement (so I could check it worked) KRC worked fine in Civlopedia and was listed as an option to build, but when I completed it, the Wonder splash failed to and my game crashed. What gives? Do the .pcx files need to be a particular size or something?

 

[Supa]

If you just renammed your gif file to pcx, it won't work.
Paint can open it, because it tries all its formats, but your file isn't a valid pcx.

Open your gif in Paint, and save as a pcx file. This pcx file must be in 256 colors. I don't know where is the command in paint, I didn't use it since win 3.1.

Anyway, good luck.

 

[mrtn]

I don't think you can use Paint, as you need a program where you can modify the palette. Most people here use Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Besides, you must make sure that the pic is the right size, 320*320 pixels.

 

[Pounder]

Originally posted by mrtn
I don't think you can use Paint, as you need a program where you can modify the palette. Most people here use Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Besides, you must make sure that the pic is the right size, 320*320 pixels.

The picture does not have to be 320x320 to work, the only constraint is colour depth, must be 8 bits (which is 256 colours).

If you don't have paint shop pro or photo shop, check to see if you have Microsoft Photo Editor (came with windows at one point). Open a copy of an existing splash with Microsoft Photo Editor, this will set your palette, then cut and paste the picture from Microsoft Paint on top of the Microsoft Photo Editor picture. Just make sure the pictures are the same size. Save your new picture.

I have made splashes as big as 570x390 with a modified background and as big as 330 x 390 with the standard background.

Check out this thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=73021

 

[Pounder]

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