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      I am trying to make a total conversion plug using evnew. Whenever I try to import a bitmap as rle8 or rleD all I get is a black box where the picture should be. What is wrong?

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      Perhaps its not suppose to be a bitmap? And I'm not exactly sure how rle's work, but they seem to be similar to animated-gifs, they're a collection of images, frames if you will. I don't think it'd work very well to have just one frame to represent all headings of a ship.

      I know there's a program by wootware that creates rle's, but its only for mac. I'm not sure how you'd do it on Windows.

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      Originally posted by Pougan:
      **Perhaps its not suppose to be a bitmap? And I'm not exactly sure how rle's work, but they seem to be similar to animated-gifs, they're a collection of images, frames if you will. I don't think it'd work very well to have just one frame to represent all headings of a ship.

      I know there's a program by wootware that creates rle's, but its only for mac. I'm not sure how you'd do it on Windows.

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      Actually sprites are supposed to be laid out on a single layer image. The tradition is for sprites to be arrayed 6 across by 6 deep, although now with Nova's extra capabilities, they can be greater than that number. Not only that, if there are banking frames, those arrays are placed below the normal array.

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      Are you importing the mask as well? Are you setting the width and height and x and y frame counts?
      Width and height are the width and height of each frame. X frames is how many columns of frames the sprite-bitmap contains, and Y frames is how many rows of frames the sprite has. Start frame is 1, end frame is total number of frames. You need to import both a sprite and a mask. A mask is the same as the sprite, but any part of the ship (that is, any part of the image that shouldnt be transparent)is just white, and the rest is black. If you have a ship with no flat-black parts on it you can use it as both the image and the mask. Otherwise you need a seperate mask (that trick only works on EVNEW).
      -Az

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