How to add your own squadron patch / pilot picture
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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.
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@Jammer:
LOL. Yeah. It looks really convoluted. The .idx file that is.
Yep, I’m cleaning it up and seeing if it’s functional at out level. Thought it was my install, but I checked the other two.
Let you know what I find.
Brian
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@RAM22:
Yep, I’m cleaning it up and seeing if it’s functional at out level. Thought it was my install, but I checked the other two.
Let you know what I find.
Brian
Thank you, sir!
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Hello,
Here I have my squadron patch picture and my driver and I would like it in the BMS integrate as many other squadron pilot. What procedure is followed to dot you apply.
Thank you cordially.
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The problem I have is that there is white in the middle of my patch and every time I click the Alpha button for the checkered background it changes the white in the patch also.
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Ok, I give up.
I have been using gimp trying to put my patch in the logbook and all I get are white and pink pixeled dots in a square. -
@Jammer:
Hey guys. Having a problem. For some reason I get pink borders as depicted below:
http://i46.tinypic.com/30t2kja.jpg
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?
I have the same problem with the Magenta broders.
Do you have a solution to this?Kind regards
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I have the same problem with the Magenta broders.
Do you have a solution to this?Kind regards
JorikI can help you with that
Part of the secret is also explained by Dunc (see post on the first page):
Note: it is important NOT to use aliasing for the edges of the logo! BMS does not support “partial transparency”, i.e. a pixel can either be solid, or transparent. No “blending” between transparency and pixel color is allowed. Usually, this is achieved by scaling with “nearest neighbor” as opposed to the usual “bicubic”.Another part of the secret is to have your logo outlined very tiny by the same gray color as the background of the logbook. This will almost be invisable. By keeping the gray outline un-aliased, you can keep your logo outline aliased, i.e. your logo will look nice and the invisable gray will take the damage
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I can help you with that
Part of the secret is also explained by Dunc (see post on the first page):
Note: it is important NOT to use aliasing for the edges of the logo! BMS does not support “partial transparency”, i.e. a pixel can either be solid, or transparent. No “blending” between transparency and pixel color is allowed. Usually, this is achieved by scaling with “nearest neighbor” as opposed to the usual “bicubic”.Another part of the secret is to have your logo outlined very tiny by the same gray color as the background of the logbook. This will almost be invisable. By keeping the gray outline un-aliased, you can keep your logo outline aliased, i.e. your logo will look nice and the invisable gray will take the damage
Thanks for the great and fast help this did the job!
Kind regards
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Usefuls posts!
HahaCheers from Falcon16
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Followed all the instructions to a T and while the file shows up in the list, when I click and choose it, the existing squadron patch does not change.
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Redo… u missed something… r u on another theater then stock Korea?
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EDIT Tried with original Korea theater, same problem.
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but like you converted the image in 16 bit, it does not work with gimp?
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Hi
FYI I’ve talked to the folks who maintain my favourite command line image manipulation tool - ImageMagick. As of 6.9.0.3 it supports 5 bit (per channel = 16 bit) TGA now so you can edit a 96x96 (with magenta background), say, PNG and convert it like so (attempts to coerce Gimp into writing this correctly failed):
convert.exe urbatch.png -depth 5 -compress none urbatch.tga
Hope that helps
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Hi all. I found my old F-16 squadron patch
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/107th_Fighter_Squadron
(107th FS “The Red Devils” Now a A-10 Squadron.) They are stationed out of Selfridge ANG in Michigan just north of Detroit.
I have been trying to use GIMP to make this patch so I can proudly wear it in my sim but I can not seem to make it 16 bit. I have done everything else in the instructions. I do not have a option to save it as a 16 bit TGA. Is there a plugin out there to do this you GIMP users?
TIA,
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I have been trying to use GIMP to make this patch so I can proudly wear it in my sim but I can not seem to make it 16 bit. I have done everything else in the instructions. I do not have a option to save it as a 16 bit TGA.
I’m not aware of how to do this in gimp directly, check my post before yours, with image magick you can convert a png out of gimp into 16 bit uncompressed the.
Bad
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But do other people in MP see it?
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Thank for the reply. A user named Cloud9 helped me out. He made the patch for me.