Map - pre battle images

[R'as al Ghul]

GDS is a pain. Ultimate paint can also be used to convert?

I prefer to edit as much as possible in Photoshop, working on the tga file, and
only as a last step do I load it into UP to convert.

[barocca]

:-)
what a team - for me UP is a pain (i like GDS - but then, i was born to dos)
:-)
i too use photoshop to get as close as i can to finished product,
and only use GDS for conversions
:-)

[macsen rufus]

When in doubt ask someone who's already done it, I guess, and I can't really find any answer anywhere else yet... I've just laid my hands on UP and haven't yet found how to set colour palettes. In particular I'm wondering about unit battle icon .LBMs for now, but I will also need to do some pre-battle map pics as well soon..... Any pointers, even a link to another thread, would be gratefully received

(and I too was born to doss..... oh, that wasn't what you meant, was it? )

[R'as al Ghul]

I've just laid my hands on UP and haven't yet found how to set colour palettes. In particular I'm wondering about unit battle icon .LBMs for now, but I will also need to do some pre-battle map pics as well soon..... Any pointers, even a link to another thread, would be gratefully received

Sorry for the late reply, do you still need help, macsen?

I'm afraif working on the palette in UP is not possible.
At least I never found out how.
I could tell you about .lbm's but we do them differently.
.lbm's are best created from bifs or bmps.
Anything specific that you want to know?

[macsen rufus]

Hi R'as - well, my first .lbm "project" is to make some new battle unit icons. I've got my review panel icons as bifs, no problems, I just need to copy these into UP I guess. I hope that means the palette will be okay? I usually make my bmps in Photoshop, where I can set the palette up (at least enough to get the faction colours and transparencies right ) and I have quite a few palettes saved for the BMPs so it makes it easier converting between formats etc. Is it possible to load bifs into UP, or do you need to go through BMPs along the way? I think I did try loading some BMPs in when I first got UP installed, but the palettes got mixed somehow, and nothing looked quite right... anyway, I'll take another look and see what problems I had.

I also will need to make some map images as well, but that's a little down the way yet. The battle icons are the urgent ones as I've got too many units with the same cloned lbms and it gets confusing in the heat of battle

[R'as al Ghul]

We make proper .lbm's with GDS, Graphic Display system by Photodex.
some lbm's clike the mapimages don't have indexed transparencies, for those you can use UP but UP doesn't save the palette entries that you need.

I can't find a download link, send me a PM with an email address and I'll send you the GDS program.

[macsen rufus]

Hi R'as,

I can't find a download link, send me a PM with an email address and I'll send you the GDS program

Sounds great, will do! Thanks