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Skinning - Guest - 28.11.2009

Hello I need help with my skinning because I am in the middle of making one my personal skins and I am using the program Samsung master. Il2 skins which are 8 bit. 8 bit cannot be edited . So I convert to 48 or 24 bit and do my design. But when I want to see what it looks like so far in game I cant because it needs to be 8 bit... So I convert it back to 8 bit and all the pixels screw up and go all weird colours. :evil:

Perhaps one of you skilled skinners know how to do it. Or maybe i could just finish the design and someone could make it for me. I would prefer to make it myself. I just need to solve this problem.

Thanks in advance.

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- KG64_Cnopicilin - 28.11.2009

Try to use GIMP for skinning, works fine at me.

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- Guest - 28.11.2009

Ok.

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- F22-Raptor-2006 - 28.11.2009

KG64_Cnopicilin Wrote:Try to use GIMP for skinning, works fine at me.

That probably won't make a difference because of the specific problem your having. What you need to do is download something called Bright (http://www.mediafire.com/?81g4yzdxx3j). What it does is converts the 3mb BMP files (can't remember how many bits this is) into a 1mb file which IL2 can read without changing any of the colours. Put your skin in the Bright folder then click the batch file not the exe file. Once done remove your skin from that folder otherwise it will slow the batch process down the next time you do another skin.

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- caldrail - 28.11.2009

To underline the answers already given, what the problem is revolves around reducing tens of thousands of colours to just 256. There are various ways of doing that. One is to apply a predefined palette of 256 colours and forcing the paint program to make a best guess which is the most appropriate choice for every pixel (I believe that's what the original poster is doing without realising). Another method - and you may well have to find the relevant button or menu choice in your paint program - is to require the program to design a palette that approximates the range of colours in your 24bit original - and that's what you want it to do. Find the dialog box or whatever that lets you choose how a reduction to 256 colours is to be handled and experiment with the settings because some will work better than others.

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- Guest - 28.11.2009

F22-Raptor-2006 Wrote:

KG64_Cnopicilin Wrote:Try to use GIMP for skinning, works fine at me.

That probably won't make a difference because of the specific problem your having. What you need to do is download something called Bright (http://www.mediafire.com/?81g4yzdxx3j). What it does is converts the 3mb BMP files (can't remember how many bits this is) into a 1mb file which IL2 can read without changing any of the colours. Put your skin in the Bright folder then click the batch file not the exe file. Once done remove your skin from that folder otherwise it will slow the batch process down the next time you do another skin.

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Ok ill try this then. I might have to start the skin again or something maybe...Hope not. Thank you.
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Ok it works fine thank you very much.

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- F22-Raptor-2006 - 28.11.2009

germanluftwaffe606 Wrote:

F22-Raptor-2006 Wrote:

KG64_Cnopicilin Wrote:Try to use GIMP for skinning, works fine at me.

That probably won't make a difference because of the specific problem your having. What you need to do is download something called Bright (http://www.mediafire.com/?81g4yzdxx3j). What it does is converts the 3mb BMP files (can't remember how many bits this is) into a 1mb file which IL2 can read without changing any of the colours. Put your skin in the Bright folder then click the batch file not the exe file. Once done remove your skin from that folder otherwise it will slow the batch process down the next time you do another skin.

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Ok ill try this then. I might have to start the skin again or something maybe...Hope not. Thank you.

you won't have to start the skin again.

Doing the "Bright" process to make your skin work for IL2 is basically like putting a picture into a frame if you want to think of it like that. Without the frame you can't hang it on the wall and without putting your skin into Bright it won't work in IL2.

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- Thee_oddball - 29.11.2009

i use http://www.gimp.org/ ]GIMPand it is simple, when u open a VOID in gimp the VOID is INDEXED just swiitch it to RGB (see pic)



and when you are done just switch it back to INDEXED and this window will pop up



just select CONVERT and your all done

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- Guest - 30.11.2009

Thee_oddball Wrote:i use http://www.gimp.org/ ]GIMPand it is simple, when u open a VOID in gimp the VOID is INDEXED just swiitch it to RGB (see pic)



and when you are done just switch it back to INDEXED and this window will pop up



just select CONVERT and your all done

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OK thanks anyway but I just use Bright. Its like Magic...It is magic.

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- F22-Raptor-2006 - 30.11.2009

germanluftwaffe606 Wrote:

Thee_oddball Wrote:i use http://www.gimp.org/ ]GIMPand it is simple, when u open a VOID in gimp the VOID is INDEXED just swiitch it to RGB (see pic)



and when you are done just switch it back to INDEXED and this window will pop up



just select CONVERT and your all done

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OK thanks anyway but I just use Bright. Its like Magic...It is magic.

glad it works for you mate

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