[REL]U-jagd tools mod 1.3

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Thanks a lot. I'll try it tonight or tomorrow for sure. Would be great to have it working.

[Abd_von_Mumit]

@joe: Tryng to apply your fix I opened optischelange.tga in Photoshop and it looks very weird - maybe this is the reason of the problem?



In Total Commander preview it looks like that:



I have never edited/saved this files before, so the strange 'stains' are not mine. Could the game save to tga file? :hmm:

[onelifecrisis]

Corrupted download? :hmm:

[Redbrow]

seriously you should contract a platics factory to produce that hand computer shown in your pics. I'd buy one.

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by Redbrow

seriously you should contract a platics factory to produce that hand computer shown in your pics. I'd buy one.

Nah!, why bother if you can make one yourself easily and have the possibility to customise it.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=114351

Though you are right in some sense, every noob in target tracking could use one I'm sure.

[joegrundman]

Originally Posted by Redbrow

seriously you should contract a platics factory to produce that hand computer shown in your pics. I'd buy one.

I've made several of them, certainly all of the ones you have seen here except the U-jagd chrono. It was my love of these tools that prompted me to make these available in-game.

Now that they are ingame I never use the hand-held ones. I find the in-game ones more convenient.

[joegrundman]

@Abd von mumit

Yeah i have to agree with OLC here. Those are not the original tga's. Try redownloading the mod.

joe

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Originally Posted by joegrundman

@Abd von mumit

Yeah i have to agree with OLC here. Those are not the original tga's. Try redownloading the mod.

joe

I have just downloaded 3 vatious U-Jagd 1.3.1 packages, the file looks exactly the same in any of them. :/

Maybe it gets corrupted during unpacking? For viewing I Use Total Commander 6.54 or Photoshop 6.0, for unpacking 7-Zip 7.42.

Is it possible that you upload this file standalone so that I can DL it without packing?

[joegrundman]

Here is the optischelange.tga

http://www.mediafire.com/?7t1o0pmixzt

tell me how that goes

best wishes

Joe

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Originally Posted by joegrundman

Here is the optischelange.tga

http://www.mediafire.com/?7t1o0pmixzt

tell me how that goes

Thanks.

But it's still exactly the same file. Must be something really weird with my machine TGA handling, or I just don't know what. My PC haunted and myself not much better. I'm absolutely not into graphics (I know who Picasso was and that's all - you know, this famous graphics programmer ).

[joegrundman]

Very strange. Then my best suggestion is that you try workaround 2. Remove the optische lange and yellow range scale tgas and then reposition the AOB finder slightly to expose the original scope markings.

Joe

[onelifecrisis]

:hmm:

Joe, did you use GIMP to create the file?

[joegrundman]

Hi OLC,

I used photoshop. I have to say I'm really quite stumped. Also it appears that the AOB finder displays correctly when using the OLC-GUI, and additionally it is just plain wierd that those two files should be screwed up when the much larger AOBfinder wheels work fine despite also having large transparent areas...


OK these are the rest of my thoughts:

There appear to be three features in the image that are not as they should be.


Firstly, and most importantly, it appears that the alpha channel just isn't coming through. The backgound in those images should be the checker-board style pattern. Instead it is plain white.

Secondly there are some shadows. These are left overs from where I have used the eraser. When the thing is working properly these shadows are invisible. Don't worry about them.

Thirdly there is the large blue rectangle that shouldn't be there, although in the image taken from Total Commader it showed the checker-board transparency image in that area. I don't know what to make of it.

My suggestion, Abd_von_Mumit is that you make a replacement image yourself.

To do that in photoshop, click select all on the image, then copy. Then create new file. Photoshop will automatically open a file with the correct dimensions. Make sure that the background is transparent. Paste in the image.

Now create a layer.

USe select by colour to pick up the red, green and yellow markings and paste them into separate layers. Move them until they superimpose the images on the base layer. Forget about the blue markings for now.

Once done, discard the base layer with the downloaded image, merge the remaining layers and save as your new optische lange tga.


Please tell me at this point the trancparency is working correctly

joe

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Will try it for sure with my mate's help, but unfortunately not tonight. I assume "layers" are not the hens that put eggs.

[joegrundman]

On the main toolbar at the top of photoshop, it reads from left to right:

file, edit, image, layer, select, filter, view, window, help

You'll need for this operation,
file -> new - to open a new document with a transparent background
file -> save as - to save the finished document as a tga
Select -> select all
Edit -> copy
Edit -> paste
Layer -> New layer - to create new layers
Layer -> Delete layer - to delete the downloaded image from your new document
Layer -> Merge visible - to combine your new layers into one image

You can navigate through the different layers using the Layer box in the bottom right

joe