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Subject: Re: (Q) Painting Cars in GPL - HELP!!!!!
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look.....you can try to paint your bmp 24 bit colour till your the one who;s
black ijnthe face....but it wouldnt matter a bit..the mip editor wont allow
24 bit color...HELLO?!?!?!?!?!!?.....McFLY?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?......use 16
bit color and you'll be ok...what's the big deal with 24 bit color
anyways?......and for the 2nd time...16 bit colour and 16 million color are 2
complete seperate different....VERY VERY VERY VERY DIFFERENT
formats.......understand?......now until papyrus changes thier format and
someone comes up with a 24 bit color mip editor....you will continue to look
at the runtime overflow error message......do you understand what your
doin?????.......pssssst....16 bit color.....16 BIT COLOR....ok????????....NOT
24 bit!!!!!!!!!!!

John Simmons wrote:

> In article <7c7bbo$atk$1@news.quicknet.nl>, mhompus@telekabel2.nl says...
> >You just have to keep the image in 16 million colors, 8 bit
> >that is (I tought)
>
> Here's the scoop.
>
> 1) I convert the mip to a bmp.
> 2) I load the bmp into Photoshop 5.02.
> 3) I change the file "mode" to RGB.
> 3) I make some changes (change color, add numbers).
> 4) I "flatten the image" so that I can save it as a
>    bmp file again.
> 5) I convert it from bmp to mip.
> 6) Copy the new mip file to the appropriate car
>    directory.
>
> When I see the car in GPL, it is black from most angles.  I saved a
> replay at Watkins Glen because it allows you to get a good look at the
> car up close from just about any angle. As it approacjes the camera, it
> looks black.  As it goes by, you can see the intended color 9and the car
> number, but it turns black again as it goes away.  It's almost like I'm
> looking at it through a thin black mesh.
>
> What the hell causes this?  Am I going to have to uninstall Photoshop 5
> and regress back to 3.0 to get my cars painted?  Somehow, I think I'm
> missing a critical step or configuration setting somewhere in Photoshop.
>
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