How to add your own squadron patch / pilot picture
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It should have worked like this for BMS all the time. However, we had a code glitch so the maximum number of patches that BMS was able to handle was limited, and had essentially been exhausted by the internal patches already. With U4, the limit is much higher, so all your patches should show up correctly now.
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thanks Dunc! I was sure it wasn’t working before… can’t wait to finish my windows reinstall and test this out!
happy new year everyone!!
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Thanks!
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Wow an hippocampus!!! Not a Vigen???
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Wow an hippocampus!!! Not a Vigen???
Look behind the cockpit
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Sweden–-Air/Saab-JA37D-Viggen/0298757/L/(you should have known…… )
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;-):mrgreen:
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I have a pic i want to use of my nickname but if i put it in TGA just get a bunch of pixels, what program do you use to do this?
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It has to be a 16-bit uncompressed TGA image. I would use an image editor, such as GIMP, to convert the photo or patch to the appropriate format.
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Not that this is that important, but I’m curious…. If you use magenta as the background, how does it come out as seen in the final version?
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Not that this is that important, but I’m curious…. If you use magenta as the background, how does it come out as seen in the final version?
Pure magenta (R:255, G:0, B:255) will appear transparent in the F4 user interface.
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Pure magenta (R:255, G:0, B:255) will appear transparent in the F4 user interface.
Thanks but……I did understand using magenta results with transparency, but does this apply as a general rule or just the F4 interface? It’s just odd because obviously the background is not magenta. I’m asking because I’ve spent time trying to resolve this issue with other applications and wonder if this (transparency) works globally. I’m not a photoshop wiz and wonder if this is all I needed to know all along when attempting to make other backgrounds transparent. I struggled with this and instead tried (unsuccessfully) to match background color as a fix.
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Thanks but……I did understand using magenta results with transparency, but does this apply as a general rule or just the F4 interface? It’s just odd because obviously the background is not magenta. I’m asking because I’ve spent time trying to resolve this issue with other applications and wonder if this (transparency) works globally. I’m not a photoshop wiz and wonder if this is all I needed to know all along when attempting to make other backgrounds transparent. I struggled with this and instead tried (unsuccessfully) to match background color as a fix.
Magenta is for f4 only.
Transparency in photoshop can be achieved if you transform your background layer to layer 0, then simply select and delete what you want to appear as transparent. You will see white/grey blocks in the background which is to indicate transparency. Finally choose te correct fileformat which supports transparency. Save in .png for example…
My advise is, make google your friend
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Thanks Scuby!
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Hey guys. Having a problem. For some reason I get pink borders as depicted below:
At first I thought it was the borders around the original picture, but then I cropped it and I still get that pink box around the edges. Any ideas?
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Nevermind, fixed!
I do have a question though. In order to get our custom patches in the campaign for custom squadrons, do we still have to follow this:
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Yes
RAM22
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Argrgrgrgrgrrgggg. Should have lied to me RAM!
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Hey Ram. The resource and patch files after unpacking look 100% different than when you did that tutorial. As well as a lot more number lines added for the imageids file.
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@Jammer:
Hey Ram. The resource and patch files after unpacking look 100% different than when you did that tutorial. As well as a lot more number lines added for the imageids file.
Yep, looks like they’ve made some changes and also changed to some type of coding of the .irc file(archive)??
Isn’t that quaint:rolleyes::rolleyes:
EDIT: Actually I’m not sure at the moment, something may be fubar here??
RAM22
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LOL. Yeah. It looks really convoluted. The .idx file that is.