the PicMake program Author dragonbait Gnomicron Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 431 Back to top Message PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject: the PicMake program Reply with quote OK so i've tried out the picmake program. I created a jpg file that is 500x400. then used my Crimson editor to create a config file that has the following info. bwmonolith.cfg Code: Section main name bw_monolith image bwmonolith.jpg picfile pics/other/bwmonolith.pic RegionCount 0 End Section went into the command prompt, changed the directory to the pictures folder and entered the following picmake bwmonolith.pic bwmonolith.jpg bwmonolith.cfg 2 It created a pic file, but when trying to use the pic in my mod it doesn't display. I tried changing the 2 at the end of the line to a 1 and then created a new pic file. Still nothing. the pic file is in the pics/other directory and I put the config file in with the other config files in the map folder since I couldn't find any other place where config files were held and none of the other config files that are listed have any relation to picture files. Do I even need to keep the config file after the pic file has been created? if anyone has used this program and has any tips would be appreciated. Thanks. One last thing that I will try is viewing the listpics picindex.dat to see if my pic shows up on the list and what it's nickname is. It should be bw_monolith which is listed in the config file and is what i've been using. But i'll doublecheck after i get out of work tonight. _________________ Chewie get us out of here! View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website Author dragonbait Gnomicron Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 431 Back to top Message PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: Reply with quote the pic file doesn't show up on the list after typing listpics picindex.dat so there must be something i'm doing wrong, or an additional step that I don't know about. so close but so far away. hmmm. _________________ Chewie get us out of here! View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website Author origen Stalker Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 740 Back to top Message PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:39 am Post subject: Reply with quote You didn't run the prompt correctly. Try this. 1. Copy your picindex file from the data folder into the toold/pictures folder. This will ensure that you have the latest version. 2. From the command line, you must use the following format: : Output filename for compiled pic file : File name of the picture index file : File name of input configuration file [reduction factor]: Value of [1,2,4,8,16] indicating the amount of reduction requested for the small version of the image. A value of '1' indicates that the small version should be the same as the full-sized version. Default is '2' (i.e., a 500x400 image will be reduced to 250x200) So, for you it will be picmake bwmonolith.pic picindex.dat bwmonolith.cfg You can leave off the 2 from the end, since it is the default value. 3. Copy the picindex file back to your data files. That should take care of it. _________________ I reject your reality, and substitute my own. View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website Author dragonbait Gnomicron Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 431 Back to top Message PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: Reply with quote awesome! that fixed it. Very Happy _________________ Chewie get us out of here! View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website