Help creating new officer faces ?

[U-Dog]

Well I've tried woring backwards from the U-boat Aces faces mod, but can't figure it out.

How do you create a Off011_0.tga ? The file has multiple images within a frame work to show status, dont have a clue how to replicate that.

I made a 64X128 image for Off011.tga but it doesnt show in game-just guessed on the area that shows black at the bottom, is that a problem?

I'd be grateful for any assistance!
Oh usuing Photoshop 7 but its my first time working with it for the most part.

[panthercules]

If you're referring to my U-boats Aces Faces Mod, I can tell you how I did it. I just opened up one of the existing files with the multiple images, down-sized the image of the real aces' face that I was using for the main image file to a size that would fit just within the individual frames, and pasted the small images onto each frame of the strip.

IIRC, 4 or 5 of the pictures needed to be a little smaller than the one for the first frame or two, so that the colored frame (blue, tan and red I believe) would still show around the edge of the picture. Also, for the couple of pictures that needed to be red/shaded (I guess for when they're hurt or dead), I experimented around a bit and figured out a way to flood-fill the image with red (after setting the flood fill tool to be partially transparent), and then pasted in the red-filled image into the frame.

I left the Ace's picture up in one file, on which I did the resizing (and, at the end, the flood filling), then selected and copied his reduced picture, switched over to the second file where I had the strip/frames open, and used "paste as new selection" so I could position the pasted picture into the appropriate frame in the strip.

And on the main picture file, I just opened one of the existing ones of those up as well, and did the same thing in terms of reducing down a picture of the Ace's face until it fit so I could paste it down on top of the existing face in the original picture, leaving the black space in the bottom just like it was in the original game file's picture.

I used Paintshop Pro 7 as well, so I'm sure you'll get it if you keep trying - I don't know much about the program either so I just had to experiment with various sizes and things till I got it right.

Once you get the hang of it, it can be fun to put other people's pictures in as well - right now my Father is my watch officer on my Type IXB on patrol in July 1941 (looking sharp in his USN Lt's uniform from the war), on loan from the naval attache's office in Berlin as part of BdU's program to reduce tensions with the US and try to keep them out of the war - guess I'll have to transfer him off the boat if we survive until December 1941 :)

Good luck!

[U-Dog]

OK Panthercules will give it a go next time I get some some free time/weekend/wife otherwise ocupied. i greatly appreciate your help, but one thing i still dont understand. Is where the vearious face .tga s show in the game? Do you know whre the Off011.tga is used for example?

it sems to me the images with the borders are used in boat to represent the various wounded states etc. Well 1st things 1st, I'll play with resizing the images to fit inside the frames and go from there. Getting photos of freinds down to that size is gonna be an issue but who knows may make a go of it.

Perhaps 1st I should put up the missus as a pin-up girl in the radio room tho. Maybe then she won't mind mind me floating about the Atlantic when I should be doing the dishes....... :hmm:

ps. if ya think that'll work ya aint' married yet are ya ladd? :rotfl:

[panthercules]

OK Panthercules will give it a go next time I get some some free time/weekend/wife otherwise ocupied. i greatly appreciate your help, but one thing i still dont understand. Is where the vearious face .tga s show in the game? Do you know whre the Off011.tga is used for example?

it sems to me the images with the borders are used in boat to represent the various wounded states etc.

I think the red-framed and/or red-filled ones in the multi-picture strip files are used in the boat to show wounded or dead officers (though I've never had one so I'm not sure) - I think that the little blue-framed pictures in the strip are used in the crew selection screens in the barracks while handing out promotions and medals and things in port (where the eligible crew and officers get a blue glow around them). Not sure about the tan-framed ones.

I'm not actually sure where the main, single-image picture files are used in game, but I suspect that it is in the barracks during the crew selection process when you scroll around through the available officers that you can choose to fill out your crew and see all their pictures scrolling by.

[U-Dog]

Well been busy & haven't had time to fool around with it yet, but i'll let ya know if i have any success or learn anything!

Cheers