Replacing...

[sparkers]

Ok so I made my custom body and everything.
Made the ganis and so forth.
But for some reason when I use it on my server
it just shows random pieces of my normal body.
It's sorta like Graal2001s bodies "CUSTOM MADE JUST THE SAME SIZE
IMG"
EDIT: Oh wait it has to .PNG... ok thats solved but now I can't get a transparent backround. Does anyone know of a free paint program that does png transparentcies?

[--Chris--]

You can try saving the images as .gif and use RGB 0 0 0 as transparency then using gif2mng.exe to turn them into .pngs.

[sparkers]

Ya about that gif2mng... I never figured out how to use that. I duble click it and it doesn't do anything.

[Slash-P2P]

If you have Microsoft Office 2000 (NOT XP OR 2003) you can use the Microsoft Image Viewer program to export files as PNGs. If not, try downloading a trial version of Macromedia Fireworks or Jasc Paint Shop Pro.

[--Chris--]

Drag the .gif over the gif2mng.exe.

Alternatively you can just get someone with psp or so to do it for you =p

[nullify]

To set transparency on custom-colored bodies you need to have "body100" (or above 100) in the filename. This will render it as a colored body and display correctly.

[haro41]

Originally Posted by nullify

To set transparency on custom-colored bodies you need to have "body100" (or above 100) in the filename. This will render it as a colored body and display correctly.

lol....*DR. Evil Voice*

riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight......


i was thinking about making a tutorial for this because its a graal myth to most.

YOur image has a color pallette. Each color in the pallete is assigned a number starting from 0 and going to 255.
that number is called the index.
0 - outline
1 - belt color
2 - transparent color
3 - shoe color
4 - sleeve color
5 - skin color
6 - coat color

it doesnt matter what theese colors are at all. they could all be black if you wanted too. Just as long as each black is a separate indexed color. The reason people say you have to use gif2mng is because this program doesnt disturb the pallette indexes, where a program such as PSP removes all unused indexes and resorts them in a neater order. Which isnt bad in most cases, but here you dont want to do this.

So you save your image as a gif, then turn it into a png using the gif2mng program.
if you want to see your pallette indexes go to Colors>Edit Pallette.
the index of the selected color will be in the lower left corner of that window.
thats all there is.