[REL] A Fistful of Emblems

[WillyVic]

Poacher,

When you save it as a DXT3 file make sure you save the mip maps with it. This will give you the 86KB size.

I highly recommend getting DXTBMP program. It will heal all your ills with DDS conversions. You set your default paint program, export the dds file to it, make your changes, save it, and import it back into DXTBMP then save. It is a very user friendly program. I have been using it for years.

Link:
http://www.btinternet.com/~mnwright/programs/dxtbmp.htm

Hope this helps a bit.
WV

[Poacher886]

Originally Posted by WillyVic

Poacher,

When you save it as a DXT3 file make sure you save the mip maps with it. This will give you the 86KB size.

I highly recommend getting DXTBMP program. It will heal all your ills with DDS conversions. You set your default paint program, export the dds file to it, make your changes, save it, and import it back into DXTBMP then save. It is a very user friendly program. I have been using it for years.

Link:
http://www.btinternet.com/~mnwright/programs/dxtbmp.htm

Hope this helps a bit.
WV

Thanks,

This is new ground for me...i'll try your program suggestion, though saving mipmaps gives you 86kb you say...but thats not 85.4kb! i though it had to be exact!


Edit: i just quickly tried saving with Mipmaps, and it say's "preview size 85.5kb" perfect. But. once i've saved that and then hover my mouse over the dds file it says 64.1kb!!!


I just used your link and suggested softwre,,,worked first time thanks!!!

[Poacher886]

One more thing, im wanting to take a screenshot of my boats conning tower so i can match the colour of it perfectly...i pressed shift+F11 and the screen froze and did nothing else!

Eventually i had to boot out of the game. Anything im doing wrong and where would i find my svreenshot anyway?

Thanks

[stoianm]

Originally Posted by Poacher886

One more thing, im wanting to take a screenshot of my boats conning tower so i can match the colour of it perfectly...i pressed shift+F11 and the screen froze and did nothing else!

Eventually i had to boot out of the game. Anything im doing wrong and where would i find my svreenshot anyway?

Thanks

wrong combination - try CTRL+F11

[Poacher886]

I pressed cntrl+F11 but nothing happened! should i notice anything? and where would i find the screenshot? perhps i did take it after all!

Thanks

[stoianm]

Originally Posted by Poacher886

I pressed cntrl+F11 but nothing happened! should i notice anything? and where would i find the screenshot? perhps i did take it after all!

Thanks

After that go to C:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 5 and you will find your screenshoots in this location

[Trevally.]

@Poacher

If you use the tool "Magic Wand" in paint.net it will select everything of that colour.
So using the wand, click on the white bits and press delete. This will remove it from the image and you will see the u-boat underneath.

[WillyVic]

Glad I could help Poacher.

With DXTBMP you can also edit/create the alpha channel in much the same way. For emblem alphas, I take the original pic , create a negative image of it and save it. Then I load up the DDS file in DXTBMP, send the alpha to the editor, paste the negative image over the alpha, reimport into DXTBMP, and save the entire thing.

And as stoianm said, your saved pics will be in your root SH5 folder. You are looking for files that appear as (example):
SH5Img@2011-02-11_11.29.33.bmp. <----disregard the link, the forum thinks I have typed an email address because of the @ symbol in the file name.


WV