Textures for custom scenery

[spacemtuk]

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone could explain how to create
custom textures for use with custom scnery. What would be great is if someone could explain the steps from when I open Photoshop.

I under stand they must be BMP to the power of 2 etc etc but what does that mean? as everytime I have tried the textures never work

Thanks in advance

Spacemtuk

[uncle_adolph]

It must be an 8 bit bmp.... The power of 2 means means the pixels must be: 64x64,128x128, 512x512 etc. But, I don't know how you assign the textures to certain faces of the object.

BTW, this should be in general discussion.....

-Ben

[spacemtuk]

Thanks for the reply. For some reason Photoshop wont let me save an 8-bit bmp..it only lets me select 16, 24 or 32 bit. while 1, 4 and 8 bit options are greyed out

[uncle_adolph]

^ Yeah, that's the same with me.. It's the only thing that's stopping me making my custom scenery.

-Ben

[iceatcs]

*Sigh* to get 8bits in the photoshop.
go Image tab > Mode > Indexed Color. that's it

[uncle_adolph]

Wooh! Thanks!

-Ben

[spacemtuk]

thanks so much

[nickc]

Originally posted by uncle_adolph
It must be an 8 bit bmp.... The power of 2 means means the pixels must be: 64x64,128x128, 512x512 etc. But, I don't know how you assign the textures to certain faces of the object.

BTW, this should be in general discussion.....

-Ben

^^^ I also struggle with texturing faces, At one point I thought I had it figured but then it all went wrong.
So for now I stick to texturing whole objects, which is fine for now but it does limit me to only being able to create certain things.

[uncle_adolph]

Well, I have anim8or and I looked at the tutorials on the official site and I found one for adding textures. So I'm happy now.

-Ben

[RCT4me]

http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=486002

:haha: