Custom textures Created 20 years ago2003-09-19 02:01:39 UTC by Vassy

Hi everybody! Just wondering: for my mod I use some really bad textures I ceated on MS paint. But when I copy 'em into wally, it says the canvas is the wrong size. I change it, and end up with the texture starting in the top left corner, and the texture USUALLY looks fine (Sometimes it doesn't, why?) but I end up with a black border on the bottom and right lines. ????????? Any help? I could just use the old textures but, y'know.

Uh - get Black Cat to download you PSP?

Wally need's Bitmap images that can be divided by 16: such as 16x16 up to 256 x 256 and of course other sizes like 48x80... as long as you can get 16 into the X and Y values it works. Another less know fact is that you should make sure the .bmp as a 24 bit image, it will transfer across easier even though when it is saved as a wad file it is in 8 bit.... The name of your new texture must be less than 15 characters long and can't have any spaces. A great little program for resizing textures is IrfanView . I normally start by copying a bitmap into MSPaint and do the cropping. Then transfer it to IrfanView and adjust the size so that it fit's the 16 rule. Then just drag it into an open Wally file where I can do more work on it using the range of pallettes in the list and save it into the wad.

This is all covered in the tutorial by atom on Custom Textures.....Or you could get Black cat to download a copy of PSP

Yeah. I swear by PSP meself (Photoshop's too difficult!)

Eh, I think I'll stick with MS paint. Good enough for me. Just. 24 bit, eh? Thanks. And as for PSP, black cat doesn't have a CD burner. Or so he says. When my dad burns CDs, he just put 'em in the normal drive.

When I burn CD's I normally put them in the fire....
Oh.... was that a little humour happnin there?

Photoshop is the way to go, eats PSP for breakfast, yum yum!

lol, but PSP is easier!

IrfanView is cool, every mapper should have it, also usefull for some pallet manipulation, eg: changing 32bit images to 256 col ones...

Yeah, got that too, but use PSP for the colour conversion, more advanced

it are all trial and if a poor kid i dont have money to pay for it

Yes. Pay.

but i dont have the money!!!!

pepper said:
'but i dont have the money!!!!'

ha /me jeers

Nice avs, atom - how about a size limit? i.e. all 96x96 or summat? Looks a little odd