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Catfish
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Wollongong, Australia
Aug 2000
time: 14:37
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Originally posted by Mercator
Another thing, for MGE/ToT you should use Resource Hacker rather than GifX. With ResHacker your images don't need to be smaller than the original. |
Yeah, unfortunately I stopped using GIF Xtractor for that very reason. I noticed Rune made an appearance in these forums a few months back. If he ever decides to update his utility, he should consider removing those file size limits.
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Originally posted by Stefan Härtel
There's no way I can adapt the colour table of the original leader pics to work with the pics I want to use (try changing Indira Gandhi's picture with GifX and you'll know what I mean). |
Most backgrounds use the standard Civ2 palette - unfortunately the leader pics are even poorer for colours. There are a number of methods, described in the Graphics Workshop thread, to load palettes. You could try using different resampling methods - if you've got the right software, of course - but there's probably not much you can do with those palettes.
I've also had difficulty producing satisfactory backgrounds, particularly with coloured images – so I tried greyscaling most of mine prior to loading the Civ2 palette. Dropping the brightness and contrast levels of the background image can also help improve the readability of the overlying text and icons – but at the expense of the background (see attached).
 Attachment: wotr_citystatus.gif
This has been downloaded 60 time(s).
Last edited by Catfish on 16-05-2004 at 17:39
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Have you seen my DLL guide? It's available on my site's reference section. The download version also includes a full list of all the images. It covers most of what's in your guide, except it isn't as explicit about all the image sizes... Another thing, for MGE/ToT you should use 