Editing Bitmaps

[Honch]

When editing the bitmaps, do we have to erase the old one or can we simply copy the new one on top of it. I tried copying a true German WWII flag on top of the old one but the game still uses the old one. (Yes, I used the localization file)

[Hubert Cater]

Honch, no need to edit the original bitmaps, simply create a 'Bitmaps' subfolder in your campaign subfolder and edit the line #CUSTOM_BITMAPS=0 to read #CUSTOM_BITMAPS=1 in your campaign.ini file. Once you do this you can place any edited/customized bitmap files in this new 'Bitmaps' subfolder and this preserves the original files. You can of course also just edit the original files if so desired.

FYI, there are more details in the manual on how to do this type of editing.

For editing the bitmaps in general make sure you edit all the relative bitmap files as there is more than one file that contains flags etc., but other than that just editing the file should do the trick, i.e. whatever you see in the bitmap file after your edits should be what you see in game.