Need help with a mod.

[WilhelmSchulz.]

It is a SHIV mod but Im pulling all the resources I can here.
I want to change the graphis of the carer event screens(ex. when starting the carear, new seb offered ect) to historcial photos. I know where the files are but I dont have the soft ware to acces it(DDS file). I need help here.

[Carotio]

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html

Above site may help you and others...

[WilhelmSchulz.]

dont have and cant aford photoshop.

[rodan54]

Here, try Bunkeratts DDS converter.

http://files.filefront.com/dds+converter+2zip/;7108980;;/fileinfo.html
(http://hosted.filefront.com/bunkerratt/)

[Carotio]

dont have and cant aford photoshop.

I don't have photoshop either, but it works with PSP also, at least PSP7

[WilhelmSchulz.]

Here, try Bunkeratts DDS converter.

http://files.filefront.com/dds+converter+2zip/;7108980;;/fileinfo.html
(http://hosted.filefront.com/bunkerratt/)
Courpt file.

[rodan54]

Alright, I uploaded the original. It should work now.

http://files.filefront.com/dds+converter+2zip/;7849507;;/fileinfo.html

[ReallyDedPoet]

Have a look at Captain Coxs' Silent Service Mod, it is excellent, may give you
some ideas.

Edit: Ok, think you might have saw this by your first post, maybe PM CC, maybe he has some info.

RDP

[WilhelmSchulz.]

ok can anyone help me here?

I tried to convert a jpg to a dds and got this.
[image.jpg] is not a power of 2 size

can someone help me understand what this means?

[CaptainCox]

It means that the HEIGHT and WIDTH of the picture is not dividable in 4

For example
You have a picture that is 513x513 pixels
Divide 513 in 4 = 128,25
No good as it has ,25

However
512 in 4 = 128
Will work

As long as the side Height and Width is dividable by 4 it should work.

I will give you another example of size
Ok you have a picture that is
1282 X 1026
1282/4=320,5
1026/4=256,5

As you can see its not dividable with 4

Now if I resize it to
1280 X 1024
1280/4=320
1024/4=256

That will save as a DDS no problem.

Also I would recommend GIMP if you cant get Photoshop
Its totally free (open source) and has all the features that PS has.
http://www.gimp.org/ (http://www.gimp.org/)

DDS plug-in for GIMP
http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4816 (http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=4816)
or
http://www.utzone.de/include.php?path=content/download.php&contentid=4069 (http://www.utzone.de/include.php?path=content/download.php&contentid=4069)

When you save a DDS file "I" use these settings...its from the NVIDIA Plug In so might differ a bit to the one of GIMP, but should be similar.

When you load a DSS in to Photoshop (I think similar in GIMP)
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/4213/loadlr0.jpg

When saving a DDS
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/820/savemf5.jpg

The MIP maps setting should be off when you are doing stuff for the MENU!

Hope that helps you a bit.

[FIREWALL]

Jeeez this forum gives so much good info and links free and I'm to stupid to ever know how to use it.:doh:

But I'll still d\l it and save it. Who knows. :p


Thanks to all SubSim Members :up:

[WilhelmSchulz.]

Thanks for the help But I looked at Cox's Silent Service mod and he is using most of the pitchurs I want to use. Good Idea but just a little slow. :nope: