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      I have downloaded the file "Character sprites" from the add-on section. How do I use this bit map files??? Thanks.

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      Originally posted by Trunks:
      **I have downloaded the file "Character sprites" from the add-on section. How do I use this bit map files??? Thanks.

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      You'll need an image editing program (GraphicConverter, Photoshop, the GIMP, SuperPaint, etc). You need to change the background color of the image to white (because that's the color Coldstone uses for transparency) and split each frame of each animation off into a separate file. You can then drop those files into your (GameName):Pictures:(AnimationName) folder and place them into animations within Coldstone.

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      I make them seperate in GrapicConverter but when I make the anim and load it onto the game and load my game, I go see him and hes moving around with a blur for a pict. Can someone help me?

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      define blur.
      do you mean he's out of focus, like if you scaled him by 200%?
      Or is he moving too fast?
      Or do you mean that a blur which absolutely does not resemble the frames you picked out is in his stead?

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      He is a square and is funny and wierd colors.

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      Do you mean that he is surrounded by a white fuzzy glow? We can't help you until we understand what the problem is. 🙂

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      Ok. Imagen a 2x2 centemiture square. In with colored wierd pattens of dark yellow and other wierd colors. I think the prob. is because I don't think I have selected the anim one cause the pict I selected doesn't have a red arrow on it. How do I make one the has a red arrow on it???

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      I made the anim and selected that one and it didn't make a difference, it was still a square with funny colers but with different colors and a different pattern thing.

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      Sounds to me like maybe there's a problem with the graphics file(s). Check its color depth - it needs to be <snip> 16-bit (aka thousands of colors) to work properly in Coldstone.

      (edit - Unknown is right - Coldstone does not support 8-bit graphics.)

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      (This message has been edited by Glenn (edited 10-08-2002).)

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      I thought it was 16 bit and 16 bit only! :eek:
      Also, make sure it's 72dpi

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      Ack! Unknown, you're exactly right - Coldstone does not support 8-bit indexed color. I'm not sure what I was flashing back to when I thought 8-bit was an option.

      Therefore, 16-bit color is optimal at this point. 32-bit color should be supported, but there's currently a Coldstone bug such that 32-bit color images apparently get displayed in-game as if they were 16-bit.

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