09-01-2001 04:02									#1
	Help! Cities.gif keeps crashing Civ Put an end to popups!

I've been trying to edit the cities.gif for a modpack, and each time I do, Civ crashes when I load the scenario. All I'm doing is editing the flags in the bottom left corner. I've been copying and pasting from a common source (the "allflags" graphics file on civfanatics.com). Other scenarios that make changes to the flag section work just fine. I've even tried copying and pasting the entire flag section from the cities.gif of one such scenario (2194 Days), and it still crashes! I'm confused!

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Curumbor Elendil
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	09-01-2001 04:07									#2
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That can have different reasons: wrong format, wrong palette etc.

If you have FW or higher, you can also try to save the cities as BMPs, perhaps this works...

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Civ2000

	09-01-2001 04:20									#3
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Your graphics program is saving the gif files in the wrong format for civ2. Civ 2 requires gif 87a non-interlaced.

	09-01-2001 08:43									#4
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I tried both of these strategies, and neither one worked. First, I saved cities as a 24-bit bitmap. When I started the scenario I got a message "Image not 640 x 480 x 256 color." So then I saved it as a 256-color bitmap. Then all the cities had a bizarre black color, and when I started the scenario I couldn't see the cities and units for each civ. Finally, I saved it as a noninterlaced version 87a gif file (which I think it was originally anyway), and I had the same problem.

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	09-01-2001 08:50									#5
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OK, I think I've got it working now, apart from a small glitch which has changed the colors of the numbers (population) on each city icon. I edited & saved the file using Paint Shop Pro instead of Paint, for whatever difference that makes!

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	09-01-2001 09:00									#6
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Well, this is bizarre. The game is taking the colors of the flags for the shields on the units and the little squares for the population numbers on the cities. You're supposed to use the upper line of flags for the new ones, right? So now what am I doing wrong?

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	09-01-2001 14:59									#7
	Increase the size of your Attachments

In the flag graphic, the square 5 down and four to the right is the shield color, 5 down and 7 to the right is the shield shadow color (for unit stacks). The bar along the top is the color for names. One of those is for the city number background also, but I forgot which.