I am importing Sprites into EV Nova from Onyx's shipyard. More specifically, when I try to insert a shot of a cannon (the ejected ammo, like the blue lines for Rail Guns), it shows up as green on the bitmap file, but then shows up as black in EVNEW and the game. I hope avaryone can understand what I am trying to say. My english is worse because I havn't been practicing too much.

I am editing the Spin, rle8, and rleD sesorces. What am I doing wrong?

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I could be wrong but with a ship don't you want to use Shan rather tha Spin?

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Right. For ships, you don't use a Spin resource. But that doesn't answer my question.

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EVNEW doesn't handle rle8 resources properly; you'd be better off just not using them. If anything, that's probably what is causing your problem.

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Originally posted by UE_Research & Development:
**EVNEW doesn't handle rle8 resources properly; you'd be better off just not using them. If anything, that's probably what is causing your problem.

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The problem is he is having seems to be that it does not work in either Nova or in EVNEW. lotsofblackflags, while there are several things that may cause this problem, I find that if there is even one white pixel along the edge of an image's frame, an RLE (due the way they are converted) will not work.

Note: Image was modified for demonstration purposes. Thanks to Skyblade for the image, and EVula for image hosting and hosting the shipyard.:)

The solution to this problem is to use a graphics program of your choice, and fill in any pixels along the edge of any one frame with the background color. This is easiest done if you have an easy way to overlay a grid on your image to clearly reveal the frames. A less accurate method would be to fill in any pixels that look close to the edge. It may clip the image slightly, but at least it will show correctly. Finally, the best solution would be to re-render the image with a larger frame around the ship, yet, as you downloaded these, this is not possible.

Good luck!
~ SpacePirate

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(This message has been edited by SpacePirate (edited 12-08-2003).)

So unlike previous versions of EV, You need actual padding of once pixel around each frame of any animation. Correct?
This means that the Onyx shipyard shots would need photoshop (or even a very basic paint program) taken to them to get an extra pixel around every frame.
-Az

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Also, guys, Nova may well choke and die if you have any runs of pixels that are all the same "pure" colour: red, blue, green, black or white... that's not masked off, that is.

If Nova works with any of the above, rest assured, it's not guaranteed to work next time.

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Well, for some reason, it just started working (kinda). Here is the problem now:

The graphic will randomly change sprite and color. I will be firing something that looks like a blaze cannon (execpt red), and that it'll suddenly change yellow for a while, then switch back and forth from yellow to read, and then it'll turn into a neutron cannon blast. Can anyone explain that?

by the way: I am not converting anything into RLE, because I am on windows, and w00tware doesn't work.

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RLED does work with EVNew and Windows. You can import from quicktime usable formats such as BMP, PNG, Tiff and so forth. So you don't need wOOtware.

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Great. Thats what I figured, since I imported an outfit photo of onyx's into the game. But can you explain my current problem?

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-shameless joke- That's your black flags that cover everything, making it look black.

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Oh goodness...that was horrible.

And it didn't help.

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Sorry, I couldn't help myself. More seriously, does it have any consistency? Does it seem to change regularly, randomly, each time the same way or not? Apart from that, sorry, I've not yet tinkered with the rle compressed ressources, so I've no experience on the matter.

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I can't tell if it is completely random, because when I am around ships firing neutron things, it changes to neutron things, but otherwise it will just randomly change sprites.

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