New Weapon Blinks

[Prodigy]

I recently created new weapon(mace) in the ChainHlm folder. This is something i wanted for a looong time to have http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif But during the battle it blinks (appears and disappears every two-three seconds for one second). Thought of anything i know(which is very little) that could resolve the problem but.........Please sombody help the needy. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif

[NagatsukaShumi]

You need to have placed the mace in every frame, otherwise it will only appear for one frame, easy enough to work out how to edit this if your using the BIF Editor which I presume you are.

[Prodigy]

I made weapon using BIFReader from org. I would greatly appretiate if you could exactly discribe what should i do "exactly" keeping in mind that mine "(which is very little)" is not a joke. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif

[Norseman]

The hard way:
1) Open the ChainHlm BIF in BifReader.
2) On the bifreader window you will now find the text "Frames: 12". Below that you can choose which frame to edit (above zoom). Go to frame two and draw the mace in exactly the same way as in the first frame. Repeat for the last 10 frames.

The easy way:
1) Open the ChainHlm BIF in BifReader.
2) Go to File, and choose "Extract all frames". All frames will now be extracted into bmp files that are easily editable in any drawing program, even in paint. IMPORTANT: DO NOT CLOSE BIFReader while editing the bmp images
When all 12 bmps are edited, go to file in BIFreader and choose "Import all frames". The old BIFs will be replaced by the new ones. Save.

[Prodigy]

Thanks a lot Norseman.
I finally got me a new masssacaring tool to kill those endless ai peasants http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif