BIG Problem!
 

I have been trying to add some sprites into my Gshop for Zone and they will just not work! I have set the transparency, I have got the X,Y, height and width all correct. I have tried every single format! Yet it still refuses to add the images. I have re-installed the Gshop, I have re-installed Graal. Still no luck. What could possibly be the problem?

sorry huwa D:

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Explain your process of entering sprites with detail (what buttons you push if any, etc etc)

Make sure the method you're using to transparent will work. The one way I always did it was using GiFFY.

Make sure the image you create is saved in the 24-bit BMP format, open it with GiFFY, transparent, and save as a GIF. The image has to be somewhere in the Graal directory, and this is where it would go wrong for me. The image would have to be directly downloaded from the server (entering a level with that image in it) for it to appear in graalshop. I believe it has something to do with the filenamecache.txt file.

Right. I save the file into my shared documents folder. Then open it with paint, make the background a distinct colour (Bright pink) so that the transparency is easily set. I then save it as a 24-Bit BMP format (Like Bl0nkt said). I open up GIFFY and load the BMP.

The image shows, I click on the transparent check box and tell GIFFY to set the bright pink colour to become transparent. I then save it as a GIF into the shared documents folder. In my shared documents folder there is the program "Gif2Mng". I drag the GIF image that I am using over the program and it is transferred to PNG. I move this PNG image into the Graal folder.

I open up Gshop. I then open up paint and copy and paste the transparent image into it. I copy and paste the name into the "Add a sprite" thing, just to make sure there are no typos and add the ".png" at the end. I set the # etc. I record the x and y correctly aswell as the height and width. I press add and there is no image there. But when I go to click there it shows the shape of the x and y etc correctly. Just no image... :/

Right...er, how do I do that?

I usually just upload the image in the webgifs folder, before I open gshop.
Then I open gshop and load the image.
( I just set the first image as .png, then I open it in Paint.NET and save it as a .gif, works perfectly for me everytime)

Should I put the images into my folder on RC? would that help any...? I've got other things in that folder, for you to do, btw, huwa... ;)

It has to be 8bit (256 colors) to work with GraalShop x] You wont see it offline if its higher.

I always use .gif, never bothered to use .png images in GraalShop..

I have tried both .gif and .png. :(

Well, I am still trying but it is still broke. What is going on!?

How did you start GraalShop.exe (file association or double-click on the exe) ?
Did the adding of the sprite work. but it didn't display, or didn't it accept the image at all?

I double clicked the exe.

Yes, I guess it worked but there was no image to display on it.

Problem solved!

I had to disable FILENAMECACHE in the editor options.

Wait whats the point of making it transparent again? The tutorial never said anything about making the image transparent...... Wait what? Wheres the options section? Also not even the starting things pop up....

Dude, put the images in the Graal folder. Not any of the sub folders. :)

You're all newbs for not saying this.. Just delete your FILENAMECACHE.txt located in graalfolder/ EVERY TIME you add a new graphic anywhere in your Graal folder.