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Posted: 12th Mar 2018 15:42 Edited at: 12th Mar 2018 15:42
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Have the .BMP formats changed for entity icons recently?

Up until recently i have made icons easily b y creating them in paint and saving them out as 64x64 24bit .BMP with no problems, but the last few models i've made that way have been blank in GameGuru, as if the entity doesn't have an icon.

Has it changed? If so how should they be saved, i've gone through all the different type of .BMP in paint and GIMP and i can't work it out.

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Posted: 12th Mar 2018 16:41 Edited at: 12th Mar 2018 16:42
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mine seem to be working fine I create them as PNG then convert them in photoshop to BMP here is the last one I created

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Posted: 12th Mar 2018 17:37 Edited at: 12th Mar 2018 17:38
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Yes, but what version of .bmp do you convert them to? and does it actually show in the entity browser in gameguru? there's multiple versions, what versions does it output in photoshop? originally i used 24bit and they worked fine, but new ones have stopped showing up in the entity browser for some reason.

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Posted: 12th Mar 2018 19:33 Edited at: 12th Mar 2018 19:37
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Sorry Belidos I save them as,

format: Windows Bitmap
encoding: RGB - 8bits/channel
resolution: 200 PPI
dimensions: 64x64 Pixels




I think the 24 bit is where you are having a problem
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Posted: 12th Mar 2018 22:24
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Quote: "I think the 24 bit is where you are having a problem"


So it has changed then, because 24bit was the format specified for the files, nothing else used to work

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Posted: 12th Mar 2018 22:37
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OK just checked, RGB - 8bits/channel is the same as Paints 24bit.

However, I think I've worked out not why it's not working, but how to get it working for me. For some reason it didn't like me taking the image I was using and converting it to 24bit BMP, but when I copied the image and pasted it onto a new 24bit BMP it worked fine, must have been some channels in the original one that didn't convert properly or something, odd that.

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