WW2-1979 Graphics Showcase

[curtsibling]

The MGE versions are easily made by changing the palette in PSP.

Saving a bmp palette first may be needed.

Or just changing to ToT!

[fairline]

They need a bit of tweaking with the colours however pre- and -post pallette loading; I'll post MGE versions soon.

[fairline]

MGE

Sooner than I thought:

[fairline]

ToT

...and some POS tweaks to the ToT versions:

EDIT: Deleted - see Catfish's post below

[rmsharpe]

Me rikey very much

[curtsibling]

No stopping this chap!

There are no better tanks in the CIV2 community!

[Catfish]

Originally posted by fairline
EDIT: What is it about png files that makes them seem so dark when viewed on 'Poly?

I had this problem before, but now I know why. It's not Poly, it's PNG (with gamma setting) + Internet Explorer. PNG files may contain a gamma setting which can be used by various applications to adjust mid-tone brightness to levels consistent with the platform on which they're displayed. For example, PCs use a higher gamma level than Macs, meaning that the same graphics would appear darker on the latter. If the PNG file's gamma setting is used correctly, the application should adjust the levels accordingly. As far as I'm aware, the darkness problem only occurs with IE and not other browsers. If someone attempts to copy/save picture as… your PNGs from IE they will get the ****ed up versions. Blame Microsoft.

The Horsa I posted earlier doesn't suffer from this problem. Why? It's got no gamma setting. If you save your PNGs in PSP, Photoshop or MS Paint, these programs will apply one. I use PNGout to convert my bitmaps to PNG and it strips out this setting. Not only is the gamma problem avoided, but PNGout applies superior compression. The downside is that it can take some time to process files like Civ2 graphics – probably because those magenta and purple backgrounds are highly compressible. Solution: use PNGout or attach a ZIP containing the bitmaps as you did before.

I've attached your Russian tanks, converted to PNG using PNGout. IE users should see a difference. How did I get the originals? I saved the webpage and grabbed the PNG out of the files folder (thereby bypassing IE).

[curtsibling]

Catfish, you are a graphic wizard, sir!

[fairline]

Nice one Catfish

[fairline]

Testing...

pngout created png. Hopefully without the gamma correction problem.

EDIT: Wrong. Again. See below...

[Exile]

That JU-88 and B-25 are the best I've ever seen. Great work, Gareth.

Keep 'em coming.

[curtsibling]

The aircraft simply rule, it has to be said!

[Arthedain]

Originally posted by Exile
That JU-88 and B-25 are the best I've ever seen. Great work, Gareth.

I agree. Too bad they can't be used for MGE.

[curtsibling]

One of the many advantages of ToT - Better units!

[Exile]

Actually . . . . .

Yes, those PNGs CAN be use with MGE. I've done it before now.

All you have to do is fiddle with them a bit. Re-size the rectangle and let my graphix prog take care of the details. I seem to recall that saving the image as a BMP solves the problem neatly.