How to change unit banners and faction icons

[SubRosa]

I have always saved everything like so:

[Sir_Lysander]

Unit skins should be at DXT5 too - are you sure they are working correctly at DXT1? My own experience is that there are problems if they are nto saved exactly right (sometimes with alpha layers)?

No problems to report with the DXT1/ARGB for unit skins; I may go back and see if it was simply a text file error that prevented the DXT1 version of the banners from working. Since I deleted the file Photoshop called corrupt, I'm not sure exactly what the nature of that file's problem actually was.

I originally figured that it was a file saving problem that I ran into - I did that once with a unit card (saved a .tga at 32bits/pixel rather than 24.) That lead me to check the file sizes, and my original post on it.

I have always saved everything like so:

I just checked my models_unit\textures folder and my file sizes runs from 43 to 171 kb - so the file size, in and of itself, is not a problem as I had earlier thought. All my unit skins are done with the DXT1/ARGB setting, so at least that portion of the game engine can digest those files without too many hiccups.