Problem

[ccrunnerman88]

i have just recently purchased Civ2 gold edition for my G4 ibook and, while i can play all the scenarios, I cannot create my own icons for scenarios i build b/c when I click on the "load icon" button in the Units Editor I am unable to load (wrong program? prob w/ the CD itself? ) I have converted the file to the correct format, and I have tried numerous programs (quicktime, other viewers). Is it some program that only the old Classics have?
ALSO when I try to edit the icons manually, the next time I load the game the screen is flipped out with all thes psychodelic colors.
appreciate any help you could give!
-ccrunnerman

[Insane]

Re: Problem

Originally posted by ccrunnerman88
I cannot create my own icons for scenarios i build b/c when I click on the "load icon" button in the Units Editor I am unable to load (wrong program? prob w/ the CD itself? )

What do you mean by "unable to load"? Are you getting an error? No selectable files? The files won't open?

ALSO when I try to edit the icons manually, the next time I load the game the screen is flipped out with all thes psychodelic colors.
appreciate any help you could give!

Civ II is very sensitive to the palette in the file. It has to have the correct colors, and they have to be in the correct places. Most editing programs make assumptions about the palette and mess it up.

[ccrunnerman88]

I click on the "upload file from CD" option in the Units Editor and I get an error message, telling me to change the file format. I have tried all the options given to me. And even then I get an error message that is pretty much unreadable (cut off), but I think its telling me that the program I have cant display it. I've tried many other things to display it and I can dispay it using Quicktime outside the game.

[Insane]

Ok, I'm not sure I did exactly the same thing... but here's what I did.

I started up the Civ II Gold application, loaded a game, and toggled the scenario edit flag. Then I selected Edit Unit from the menu, and clicked on the icon that looked like a CD. This brought up a standard file dialog, which I traversed to a "units.pict" file, which I successfully opened.

Of course I could edit the picture before getting to this point, so I assume you are trying to load graphics you created elsewhere.

Is your file a PICT format? This is sort of an old, pre OS X format, that really isn't used much anymore. This might be your problem if you've saved in a tiff, or jpeg format, which would be more common on OS X, instead.