Quesiton about Bitmaps

[andrewmarsh13]

I'm working on new models for the Materia that you see on the field right now, and Pcreator is NOT liking the 256 color bitmaps I'm making for the textures. I was just wondering if I should be choosing a special option in photoshop in the Indexed Color menu. Here's some pics to show you what I'm talking about:


Here is the texture as an 8-bit 256 color bitmap I chose Local (Perceptual) because it makes it not look like garbage


Here's how it ends up looking in Pcreator

I mean zoomed out to the size it would actually appear in game, it doesn't look too bad. I'm just sort of a stickler for things not looking nasty.

**EDIT**
I dunno, maybe I'm just being a little harsh on them. They don't look so bad when I'm not zoomed all the way in on them.

[stormmedia]

Well... I found some bugs while converting textures with Pcreator.  Sometimes the colors just don't convert properly.  Try using ficedula'S LGP tools.

1-Open the char.lgp with LGP Tools.
2-Right click on any tex files and click replace.
3-Select your .bmp file.
4-Right click on the same tex files and click extract.
5-Save the tex files wherever you want.

hope it helped.

[squeeble]

Hmm this is quite interesting seeing as your texture is high resolution but when you apply it in Pcreator it goes all funny is kinda wierd. I could help you out with this if you'd like?

[andrewmarsh13]

Sure I mean it's not a HUGE deal yet, I mean you were going to get the models and textures eventually. I was making this for the mod, just as something I thought would be easy.

[squeeble]

Sure sure no probs, every little bit helps .

[andrewmarsh13]

I'll make a few more item models, and send you a pack of 3ds files and hi-res bmps for you to play around with as much as you like.

**EDIT**

Whee! Potion Bottle!

[Nex]

Where is the blue materia? If you can create the blue one I'm surely going to use yours instead of the original used in the PC game.

I need them to create my website menu. If I have your permission of course

I'm very bad with Photoshop and with all other programs like that one I was wondering if it's so difficult? Because If I can create four or five different view of the same materia color, my menu will be great

Anyway It's a very good work

[andrewmarsh13]

If you have photoshop then use this simple tutorial. http://www.idigitalemotion.com/tutorials/guest/easy_glass_orb/easy_glass_orb.html
And then use Image -> Adjustments -> Color Balance to make the orb the color you want.

**EDIT**

Here's all the new items I've made so far