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SR1950 (94 posts)
Feb-24-02, 03:35 PM (EST) "New Reskin Problem. Any ideas?" LAST EDITED ON Feb-24-02 AT 03:44 PM (EST)LAST EDITED ON Feb-24-02 AT 03:39 PM (EST)I've got a few successful reskins under my belt to date, but recently I repainted the ACL Heavyweight Coach into BR&EC colors, and ran into a new problem I've not seen before.The new .ace file looks fine:But when I create the coach as a consist in an activity, the images in the consist editor, and the unit itself came out like this:Everything went well as I repainted the unit, and afterward the .ace files looked OK in TGATools2.I've tried both the Updated MakeAce and the Patch #1.What difference does compressing the .ace file make?Anybody have any ideas where I screwed up? Thanks in advance.LewPS: Maybe it's stealth technology!
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: New Reskin Problem. Any ideas? darkfyre Feb-24-02 1 RE: New Reskin Problem. Any ideas? RonA Feb-26-02 2

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darkfyre (106 posts)
Feb-24-02, 07:45 PM (EST) 1. "RE: New Reskin Problem. Any ideas?" *boggles* You merged all the layers? umm nevermind stupid question..but anyway, i ran into similar problems myself (but never seen this one in particular)..i had to copy the image (in Paint Shop Pro 7), paste as new layer, then re-merge them. that worked fine for me; see if it helps..-------------------------------------------------------------
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RonA (46 posts)
Feb-26-02, 09:27 PM (EST) 2. "RE: New Reskin Problem. Any ideas?" Just an "off-the-cuff" idea......When you saved the file in your paint program, did you save it as 24 bit w/alpha or something else? The heavyweight coaches that I have reskined all worked fine with that approach. I once saved in a format that was different than what TGAtool was expecting, and completely ruined the reskin. (Moral: always make backups!)Good luck.
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