Tiling error?

[Guyver1]

Hey guys,

I just made a new 512 sea texture and named it HCOST00F.pcx The tile was made in Photoshop 7 and saved as .pcx with index colours. Exactly the same way as the sea texture HCOST00F.pcx file found in the 512 ODS theater.

After that i wanted to test and see what the texture would look like in 'real life' so i openend op the texture.zip file from the 512 ODS theater and replaced the excisting HCOST00F file with my new one. Twaelti came up with replacing sea textures this way, so i figured i could do it in the same way... well.. guess not..

I loaded up Falcon and made a simple TE from an island to see my new sea textures.. The textures do appear.. but they look distorted and have a totally different color. They look all white.. For snow textures they look pretty cool.. but that isn't my intention..

So my (burning) question is... Why don't my textures show in the right way, and why do they look so distorted????

Thanx in advance

Guyver1

[kinggeorge]

its a palette problem then... you need to have all L M T H tiles of one single texture set the same palette. Please read the tutorials and the thread in this forum "how to create 512 tiles"

[kinggeorge]

btw: this is a texture error not a tiling error. tiling errors are when a certain type of ground tile with its texture is in the wrong place...

[Guyver1]

Damn.. i've read all the tutorials on this site.. i've even printed them and made a complete documentation out of them. Anyway, thanx for the feedback.

-edit: The tiles did show correct in Terrainview.. So i figured the format was good.. guess i figured wrong

[Guyver1]

Is it possible to have 1024 tiles for sea textures and to keep all the others 512?

[Snake Man]

quote:The textures do appear.. but they look distorted and have a totally different color.

I was going to say that the palette of the tile(s) might be wrong, but since you only use one ...

Are you sure the palette is 256 colors or better yet 0-252 colors used (253-255 white and not used) like said in our texture tutorial?

[Guyver1]

i followed your tutorial to the letter.... believe me..

[Snake Man]

Could you post a screenshot of the tile ingame and maybe have the tile available for download?

[Widowmaker]

quote:Originally posted by Guyver1:
Is it possible to have 1024 tiles for sea textures and to keep all the others 512?

yes

/widmak

[Guyver1]

quote:Originally posted by Widowmaker:
yes

/widmak

Thanx.. i already made a 1024 sea tile..

quote:Originally posted by Snake Man:
Could you post a screenshot of the tile ingame and maybe have the tile available for download?

If i could, i would.. but sadly i don't have any webspace availible (yet)

Guyver1

[Snake Man]

quote:i don't have any webspace availible

Then zip up the images and email to me, falcon4 @ nekromantix . com

[Guyver1]

I'll mail the files on monday, don't have them with me right now... i'm at work..