How to add a new province

[WesW]

PSP's compression method screws LBM files up. The file looks fine in PSP, but when you use Mithil, you see how it's all messed up, and why all you see on the strategic map are a few blue streaks on top of the tex map.
To use PSP, you need to save the LBM as an uncompressed file, then load and save it using Mithil in order to re-compress it before inserting it into the game.

Dewinter, the text maps (tga's) are hand-drawn, so removing the provincial names has to be done manually, though you can use a graphic's program feature to create a new file with typed-in letters, and then merge it onto the tga.

The maps don't have to be matched in order to work, except for size.

For the LBM and bifs, IIRC, you can open the LBM's in Ultimate Paint, change their size as needed, then save them as bitmaps. You can then use bifreader to import the bitmap frame and save them as bifs. I think you can use either program to alter the files, but doing it with UP means you only have to do the large LBM, and then shrink it down to the other sizes.

[WesW]

It turns out that it was indeed the PSP method of compressing the LBM which messed it up, so make sure that when you use PSP you save it as an umcompressed file. You still need to load it into Mithil for re-compression before inserting it into the game.

I need help with the TGA's. For some reason, they don't show up correctly in the game. I tried simply opening and saving original, unedited files using both PSP and UP, and they show up in the game with a heavy purple tint, as if the hue were all screwed up.
Does anyone have any ideas here?

[EatYerGreens]

Useful info in this thread. Can it be stickied, please?