STRAT MAP " Altering our playing peices"

[dimitrios the samian]

HELP .. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-help.gif Im running out of space in Burgundy and everywhere else .
How can I make the bases smaller ?
Were do I start ?
cheers
D t S http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

[Myrddraal]

Quote[/b] (dimitrios the samian @ May 03 2004,17:08)]Gooday Myrddraal
Thanks for replying to my posts the other week .
I dnldd the bif reader and will begin learning how to use it in my quest to improve the peices that we all use on our strat map.
Do i need any other tool to create graphics that works together with the bif reader ?
cheers
Dimitrios

No. If all u want to do is edit the size of bases and castles then all u need is an image editor and the bif reader.

Use the bif reader to open and extract the images a .bmps,
Use ur image editor to resize them.
(If u only have paint brush, which is not very good at resizing images, a useful trick is to insert the image into MS word, resize them, print screen and paste into paintbrush)
I think that the images need to be the same size, but if u change the size of the castle/base and make the rest transparent (green is transparent).

Then use the bif reader and C:\ to change them back to bifs. I think a discription of how to do this is in the txt files that come with the bif reader.

Hope this helps, Myddraal

[dimitrios the samian]

Gooday Mydraal & others reading
I downloaded readbif22b , started using it ,and BINGO
I modified the base .
But something really weird happens,I go into open ,i browse find a Medieval folder , copy a file to alter and it portrais a shogun peices ?
Anyway is their another betterbif reader available ? ,one that works with Medieval ?
cheers & thanks for linking my posts
DtS

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Tavern is better place for spam...

[Myrddraal]

That bif reader works for all bifs dimitrios

I've told u everything u need http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-wall.gif

U probably just opened the wrong file.
The pieces are in /campmap/pieces/units for units
and /campmap/pieces/buildings for castles

[dimitrios the samian]

Drink too,two,to.. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-zzz.gif to you to E C u play o/l . http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cheers.gif

Myrddraal I like your knowledge ,only noticed now thanks I will study ,later.