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oni5115
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posted 19 December 2001 19:17     Click Here to See the Profile for oni5115   Click Here to Email oni5115        Reply w/Quote   
does anyone have the updated cvdc6.dll file?

On the cv5 site it states that there is a .dll file that allows you to save .dc6 images with CV5.2

I can't find it on the site...

The one I currenlty have is 8/30/00

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El DavY
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posted 19 December 2001 20:50     Click Here to See the Profile for El DavY   Click Here to Email El DavY        Reply w/Quote   
I have the same one and it aloows me do save to .dc6

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oni5115
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posted 19 December 2001 23:40     Click Here to See the Profile for oni5115   Click Here to Email oni5115        Reply w/Quote   
Really? Like if you take .bmp file.. Open it and the click the save button you can choose .dc6?

I could save them from the mpq's but not create my own for some reason.

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oni5115
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posted 19 December 2001 23:43     Click Here to See the Profile for oni5115   Click Here to Email oni5115        Reply w/Quote   
oh yeah... if yours works... you got my e-mail

I need this to make at least inventory gfx for now.

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NefariusDX
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posted 20 December 2001 00:32     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
use dc6con

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posted 20 December 2001 01:49     Click Here to See the Profile for oni5115   Click Here to Email oni5115        Reply w/Quote   
I used dc6con tonight... I got nothing but crap... it came out as a blob of oragne and brown.. It was orignally a nice looking gray and gold helm. WTF?

I used Photoshop 6 to save the file into a pcx. What specific cormat do I need. I made it windows pallete. The graphic looked fine in Photoshop. Dunno what happened...

regardless I just used Dc6 Maker. But I always get a very bright item in the game. Does anyone know how yo fix this problem yet?

I made sure that the invtransform was 0. and the value was completely left blank for the item class. And in the set section I told it to mazke the set Black too, hoping that would help some... not at all.

This is really peavin me off too. It's a pain in the butt to have to make an image 30% darker and hope it doesn't become transparent when you play the game... The find out it's still gray and not nearly black..... grrrrr..... anyways. If anyone know hwo to fix it please help me. please....

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NefariusDX
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posted 20 December 2001 02:36     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
read the tutorial at the keep for making new inv gfx lol. btw there are things called PALLETES d2 dosent use you windows pallete to prevent ppl from messing arround with thei gfx you have to apply a pallete b4 you turn you winblowzs image into a d2 image.

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jbouley
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posted 20 December 2001 09:25     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
Something else to remember...if you have your colors on the gfx set higher than 256...you will get a gibberish picture. Turn off True Color or anything else that gives you more than 256 colors.

Although it's not very powerful or flexible, I have gotten a lot of mileage out of using the copy of Microsoft Photo Editor on my laptop. And I haven't had any pallete problems so far in using it. Downside is that editing or creating graphics takes forever...there aren't a lot of tools or functionality in the program.

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posted 20 December 2001 10:19     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
hehe actually any tool of ms is not usefull or very usefull they are all stolen from other companys even every one uses them

eg: DOS, they bought it for 10000$ from a company, originaly called QDOS renamed to dos
WINDOWS, stolen from apple which bought it from xerox.

i didnt find any program except notepad and mspaint they didnt copy/buy/stole from some one else.

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posted 20 December 2001 13:20     Click Here to See the Profile for oni5115   Click Here to Email oni5115        Reply w/Quote   
I have read the tutorial... I will read it again though.

I know it's not my palletes, or at least I don't think it it. Because I can open my dc6 file in both dc6 Maker 2.1 and Cv 5.2 and it looks correct in both of them. It's perfectly fine in their. There has to be some setting I am missing in the .txt's or something. Unless someone else has had this problem..

Here's a pic to show you what I mean. On the left is what the gfx look inside the inventory of the game... On the right is the exact look of both the bmp files and the dc6 files.

http://www.waste-land.netfirms.com/colorproblem.jpg

hopefully this might help you understand the problem I am now having. Actually I've always had this problem with items. I decided now though, since i am doing alot of items, that I wan to solve the problem.

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posted 20 December 2001 15:24     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
Is the right-hand one the one that's causing you problems?

If so, the problems seem to be twofold:

1) the background isn't pure black and/or you didn't use the -transcol 0 command with dc6con...which is why you have black background instead of transparent as it is on the left.

2) Increase the level of your gamma. That will brighten the picture without washing it out as high levels of brightness sometimes do.

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masakari
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posted 20 December 2001 15:52     Click Here to See the Profile for masakari   Click Here to Email masakari        Reply w/Quote   
AFAIK if you load the palett the colour-depth is set to 256, is it not. So i cannot understand why a few ppl say it seperately.

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posted 20 December 2001 15:55     Click Here to See the Profile for oni5115   Click Here to Email oni5115        Reply w/Quote   
The left side is an actual in game shot.

The right side is screenshots of how the items looked in dc6 Maker 2.1 and/or Cv 5.2

They look just the way I want them to on the right side. But on the left that is what I get when I append those Dc6 files to the items in the game. I don't know why they keep turning mega bright like that.

I am not using Dc6con because I really hate command lines. That and I don't have a pallete for photoshop 6.0, and I don't know how to create or even use one. I went through the help in Photoshop and they seem to call everything under the sun a pallete... Well everything except the color scheme your using. lol.

So I made bit maps that use the windows 256 color pallete. The use Dc6 Maker to make the dc6 files.

Later tonight I might give another try to making a .pcx image file and using dc6con. But I need to know hwo to create a pallete in Photoshop 6.0... Or how to implement an already created one. Does anyone use Photoshop here?

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posted 21 December 2001 12:12     Click Here to See the Profile for masakari   Click Here to Email masakari        Reply w/Quote   
In photoshop i'm not sure but use the program-help and search for palette. If you can than use Paintshoppro, because it is very popular and the palettes are ready for download maybee there is one for photoshop, too.
To create your own palette i have heard you should open the inventory grafic and save the palette but i cannot promise it.

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oni5115
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posted 21 December 2001 12:16     Click Here to See the Profile for oni5115   Click Here to Email oni5115        Reply w/Quote   
yeah. I used the help in Phtotoshop... the problem with the help is this.

You know how you have specific tool boxes, such as Layers, Info, Swatches, ect.

In Photoshop, they call those 'tool boxes' palletes!? So to find what Paint Shop calls a pallete not feasible because I need to figure out what Photoshop calls them. I'll figure out somehow. I am still not totally convinced this is a pallete problem though... I will find out if it is though. Will have to get Paint Shop or test some other way.

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masakari
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posted 21 December 2001 12:27     Click Here to See the Profile for masakari   Click Here to Email masakari        Reply w/Quote   
bad double post, sorry
feel free to delete this

cu Masakari

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