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How to add a pic into the combat report screen?
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:14 pm
by Frido1207
I feel the combat report screen is a bit dry.
So i thought if it would be possible to add a picture to that report screen, to see at the first glance, if it is a air combat, or a land battle etc. Pls see example below:
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If it is possible , how to do so, that i can add a appropriate picture to the combat, which is resolved, e.g a land combat pic for land battles etc.
Also any artistic advices are highly appreciated.
thx in advance
RE: How to add a pic into the combat report screen?
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:25 pm
by uncc
I'd like to see this as well...
RE: How to add a pic into the combat report screen?
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:02 am
by Anraz
Very interesting idea. We will check possibilities.
RE: How to add a pic into the combat report screen?
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:56 am
by henri51
For the moment you would need a program like Adobe Photoshop that has levels so you can superimpose images with transparency etc..
Henri
RE: How to add a pic into the combat report screen?
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:53 pm
by Tomokatu
Hmmm... Paint Shop Pro (if anybody still uses that! I'm using V7 but V5 & 6 also supported layers) also supports the creation of LAYERS. The .png (portable network graphics) image format supports transparency. I'm not going to make a list of ALL the graphics formats which do, but .png is one of the most common ones.
I'd like to see examples of WIP.
RE: How to add a pic into the combat report screen?
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:20 pm
by Anraz
IMO GIMP is a very good solution. The best free software raster graphics editor.
RE: How to add a pic into the combat report screen?
Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:16 pm
by Magpius
GIMP rocks, (and yes everyone I know chuckles at the name).
RE: How to add a pic into the combat report screen?
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:46 pm
by Frido1207
ORIGINAL: Anraz
Very interesting idea. We will check possibilities.
Just to get things straight (at least for me that is):
i was looking for a solution like in the fleet management screen, where, as you know, always is a pic from a CA; BB,etc.
I found an entry in the GUI csv. (line 558) mentioning "fleets image". But I don´t know to which folder this was referring, as i cannot find the background pics for the fleet management screen. So am i guessing right, that this mentioned solution doesn´t work?
thx for your patience with me.
RE: How to add a pic into the combat report screen?
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:01 pm
by doomtrader
Images for fleet management screen are located in /data/gfx/Units images/ folder
RE: How to add a pic into the combat report screen?
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:54 pm
by Frido1207
Thx DT. Think i found those pics.
But please can you give me some more advices?
Can i just add some pics into that folder that you mentioned & add a "combat image" line in the csv. file?
But how to name those pics, so that the game engine is able to find them, also again which pic to choose.
Many dumb questions i know, buit i´m new to this kind of stuff & generally a IT illeterate.
RE: How to add a pic into the combat report screen?
Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 6:49 am
by doomtrader
Now you are not able to add those pictures.
First we have to design how it suppose to work, and then we have to implement those.
So if you have any suggestions, please post them.