making a new unit.

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I want to make a new unit, and I have read all of "Duke John's Definitive Guide to Graphics modding" and have a few questions but lets take these one at a time, first it sais in there that " I need paintshop pro, also a similar program will suffice" so I am wondering sence I dont have Paintshop pro, the best thing I have is MS paint, does anyone know if this program is advanced enough to create a new unit. there will be other questions I will post here, even though I have another thread going in "entrance hall" I thought that I would probly get better answeres here instead.

[Duke John]

My guide is far from finished is at the moment still focusing on editing graphics and animation theories. As written in the guide, Paint Shop Pro or a similar program is necessary for editing graphics. Making new unit graphics requires different programs and those will be handled in other chapters.

Please don't think that I will answer any questions regarding making new units. That's why I'm making the guide; to avoid having to write the same things over and over again. It requires alot of time and thinking to answer in a correct and clear way.

Cheers, Duke John

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by "all of duke johns guide to unit graphics" I ment all so far, it was suggested to me at entrance hall thats why i even bothered to say it, LoL I just wanted to know if MS paint was able to edit the graphics of it, because I dont know if you just need the right pixels in the right place or if you need some sort of file. I am looking forword to the rest of your guide, but I need answeres before that LoL.

[the Black Prince]

well, i have edited stuff in paint, but i had to use a jasc software program - probably photoshop to save as bif and convert etc. i don't think you can save the files to .bif with paint

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grrr... no paint doesnt convert to .bif, but I know paint shop can man I only have 30 day version. ={

[shand994]

paintshop doesnt save as a bif, you need to save it as a bmp then import it as a bif using bifreader

[the Black Prince]

no, i opened the files i was editingusing paintshop, saved the mas jpeg, coz i always use paint for simple editing - edited them using paint, reopened the jpeg using paintshop and saved as bif, back in the original location. i didn't use any bif reader at all.

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so you made pic in paint then saved jpeg and reopened + saved as a bif in paintshop, cool. does anyone know of a diff prog that might let me open bif's outside of paintshop and bifreader? just out of curiosity, I could probly use the bifreader if I need to. but how did you get the pic from MTW files to paint? you would need to convert to a jpeg first wouldnt you?

[Ithaskar Fëarindel]

Prince, which version of Paintshop (PSP) are you using? PSP (my version) definitely doesn't save as .bif

Or do you mean PhotoShop? I don't think I have that, but I'd be surprised if that saved as bif (as well as overjoyed... I'll want a copy of it )

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paint shop will save as a .bif at least paintshop pro 8 does =}