Editing Tiles

[ebitt]

I am experimenting with a view to creating a larger map of Europe. I used PaintShop to edit one of the Land+Sea tiles. The tile looks fine on the palate, but when the new campaign is loaded, the old tile appears as a grey image under the new image I painted. I tried to make foreground and background identical in the edited tile, but image of the original tile still appears (grey). Any ideas or suggestions.

Thanks

[ebitt]

This is a picture of what I see in the editor.

[Hubert Cater]

Ebitt, it looks like you have not edited the corresponding 'national_tile_sprites.bmp' file. You can either edit this file to match the tile sprite changes you made or play your customized campaign without national tile colors as this is a selectable option.

[Moonslayer]

According to the manual:

#CUSTOM_BITMAPS= 0

If you set this to 1 then you will be able to use custom bitmaps. You will

need to create a Bitmaps subdirectory within your custom campaign directory

for your customized items. The game will then use these customized items

instead of the default bitmaps. A warning message will let you know if you

have done something wrong when attempting to load a campaign set for custom

bitmaps.

Maybe you have forgotten to do this?

Or you could listen to the man himself and ignore a slow-typing-nobody like me

[ebitt]

The edited tile_sprite.bmp is in a folder named Bitmaps under the Campaign folder for the test campaign. The Custom_Bitmap is set to one. Sometimes a slow hand is fine

[ebitt]

Hubert Cater wrote:

...it looks like you have not edited the corresponding 'national_tile_sprites.bmp'...

You are correct. I didn't think to check that.

Thank You

[ebitt]

Editing the national_tile_sprites.txt did the trick! I guess the moral of the story is that if you edit tile_sprites.bmp they you must make the same changes to national_tile_sprite.bmp and light_tile_sprites.bmp.

Thanks for the help