Terrain files.

[gvari7]

So, I´m editing terrain, and end up with these gray triangles all over the map.
Why is this?

[Catfish]

Take your pick.

[gvari7]

Thanks.

[gvari7]

Have a different problem now, the terrain is all strangely colored.
I have made sure it is saved in the correct format, 256 color bitmap.

Could it perhaps be that the Windows 7 paint is messing the file up?

[gvari7]

No wonder no one has responded yet, I forgot to attach the file!

[Arthedain]

I'm no graphics expert BUT maybe you should just copy terrain1.bmp and terrain2.bmp from a folder where you kniw it works, and then paste in the graphics you want to change again. That have helped me several times. I even have a folder with the standard graphics just so I can copy those workable files to paste in changes

[gvari7]

Thanks for the reply!

That is exactly what I did, I chose the cleanest looking terrain file I could find, and pasted what I had made into it.

Did not help.

Barthi told me something about "mouse" has to be black, I changed the mouse field to black but still it did not help.

[Arthedain]

I wish some of the experts could help you..

[civ2units]

You need the correct 256 colour palette for the civ2 units- terrain- cities.gif. I´ve used always Corel Photopaint when changing the gifs for civ2.

You can get the correct palette in Photopaint if you opens the terrain.gif and then going to Picture => Colour Table. You will see the colour table in a new window. Now only save the colour table and you can use it.

To replace the colour table in you terrain.gif you go to picture => colour mode => palette (8 bit). Go to the "open" button beside palette and choose the Civ2 palette which you saved just before.

After this, save your terrain.gif as a gif file and play civ2. Everything should work now.

I hope this helps you. If something isn´t clear or you don´t really understand my bad english, please let me know

[civ2units]

If you are using Photopaint, I can send you the correct colour palette

[civ2units]

Or send me the terrain.gif and I will replace the colour palette

[gvari7]

My file is saved as a bmp file, when I try to save it as a gif file it changes completely! I think this new paint that comes with Windows 7 is the culprit.

Paint does not offer picking a palette, it seems to me.

Also, I wanted to have the unexplored areas white, in contrast to the blackness of space, I do not know if this is also posing some difficulties for the game.

Could you perhaps fix this for me?

[civ2units]

I´ve replaced the colour palettes. It should work now

[gvari7]

Thanks for the help!
But for whatever reason this is still broken.
It looks to me as if the file is correct, i can see nothing that would cause all these black/white rectangles.

[civ2units]

Please send me the terrain2.gif. I think that this file use another colour palette.