Creating ship art

[Rysyonok]

I must be doing something wrong

I tried creating new art for ships. I took an existing Jnside file, changed the ship's silhouette, saved the file in the ART directory. The same with the corresponding JnShil file.

I went into the IJN database and changed the ship's class to use the new picture.

Then I started a scenario but instead of a new image I am looking at a default one (JnSide0000).

I did use regular MS paint - could that be the problem?

[Tankerace]

What file did you save it as. MS Paint isn't the problem, I use it for the graphics (when I need to adjust the ship before painting in photoshop).

The game won't read graphics past 500, that could be it.

[Rysyonok]

Aaa!

All of mine were 900+

Thanks!