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      I recently made a whole load of planet pictures, and tried to use them, but Nova seems to crash when using PICT-based sprites. So I went to rle* them, but EnRLE does not seem to work - it just copies the spďn across without creating an actual rle8 or rleD. It has worked in the past, when used on a file I created directly with m2s... does this mean it requires there to be masks for the PICT sprites? I hope not, because some of them would be hard to make masks for...

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      Yes, it does require masks. You need to do a proper spin with both the picture and the mask fields filled in and pointing to appropriate pict resources.

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      Baron Vladimir Zarkonnen le Errible
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      Originally posted by Gul Banana:
      does this mean it requires there to be masks for the PICT sprites? I hope not, because some of them would be hard to make masks for...

      Yes, EnRLE requires masks. In fact, all EV Nova sprites should have masks; I wonder if this could be what is causing your crashes.

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      David Arthur
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