hi,
When I attempt to load a .3ds file, or import any BMP into med, the image's colors get changed. I assume this is because the palette doesn't have true color. Is there any way around this? Or is there a plugin that increases the number of colors ME allows? Thanks!

You have to save your picuture as a 16.7mill. Bitmap. Then normally it works. But don't know if this is right. I haven't used MED and WED for a so long time.

Regards,
#benny#

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Are you refering to saving the picture in whatever program I use outside of MED as a 16.7mill bitmap? In that case I'm not sujre what to do, because MED constructs the picture from 10 different textures. When the model loads in MED, that's when the whole skin is wrong.

I try importing another skin in the skin viewer. Even though the skin is a 24-bit bitmap, it gets messed up in MED and MED's skin viewer. I go to Edit->Convert but Convert is faded out.

This image should help. The top skin is what turns up when I import the file into MED

Hi there

did u try to reload the tga in the skin editor?

that's what i always do, when i import models to MED.

cheers


Sinnlos

PS: nice UV layout

how does it look in the engine? normally, idon´t care what it looks in MED and it comes out well in the engine

Are you using 6.31? If so, MED's skin edittor uses an 8-bit palette of which the colors for it are poorly assigned. If you are using 6.4 (caution: public beta), this isn't a problem. To be sure on it, put your test model in WED, build to update entities and preview it that way.

Yea don't worry about this because it won't affect how it looks in the engine. This is just how MEDs skin editor displays the skin.

Hey Uli, or anyone else: How come some skins get imported as 24 bit and not 16 bit? How do I do this?

Thanks Uli

BMP and PCX - 16-bit textures will be used.
TGA - 24 and 32-bit textures will be used.

Save as TGA for 24-bit textures.

Thanks for your responses

"did u try to reload the tga in the skin editor?" Yes, many times
My version of MED is 6.171. But as long as this doesn't affect how it looks in the level, I'd be fine with it.

EDIT: ok it does seem to affect how it looks in the level. So do you think I ought to save it as a 16.7 mill bitmap? I don't seem to have an image editing program that does that. Are there any free programs out there with this function?
Thanks