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Community Talk => General Talk => Topic started by: Corvette1 on August 10, 2008, 04:49:08 PM

Title: How do you get rid of pic limitation in DoD?
Post by: Corvette1 on August 10, 2008, 04:49:08 PM
This morning, I had to re-install DoD:S since it was screwing up at times. When I went to apply my pic of the Corvette, it said I needed to have a pic with pixels of 258, 128, etc.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  Jim Jones told me to go to steam forums, but I don't have an account, or at least one that I can seem to log in with  >:(   Anyway, some help would be greatly appreciated

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Title: Re: How do you get rid of pic limitation in DoD?
Post by: [OnA]Sloppy on August 10, 2008, 05:49:47 PM
open the picture, and go to resize the image or whatever to a smaller image size. Someone else might be able to explain it more.
Title: Re: How do you get rid of pic limitation in DoD?
Post by: fury on August 10, 2008, 06:00:07 PM
1ST-open you .jpg with pothoshop
2nd- resize to 128 x 128 or 256 x 256 (maximum)-i go with 256x256 ..
3rd save it as vtx eight bit alpha-point-unsharpen mask
4th copy it into the steam/steamapplications/material/vgui/logos (not sure of the real folder path)
5th import it from the options menu

and ur good to go
Title: Re: How do you get rid of pic limitation in DoD?
Post by: Corvette1 on August 10, 2008, 06:44:32 PM
thats all good, but I don't own photoshop.  I'm npt at all sure my pic will fit the 256x256 format either. Why did they have to put this stupid restriction on the pics anyway?  ::)   Whats it going to solve?

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Title: Re: How do you get rid of pic limitation in DoD?
Post by: fury on August 10, 2008, 06:50:41 PM
Quote from: Corvette1 on August 10, 2008, 06:44:32 PM
thats all good, but I don't own photoshop.  I'm npt at all sure my pic will fit the 256x256 format either. Why did they have to put this stupid restriction on the pics anyway?  ::)   Whats it going to solve?
theres some other programs that you can use to save it under vtx..but for some reason i cant remember any of them..something to do with my long term memory (and no i dont smoke pot)
Title: Re: How do you get rid of pic limitation in DoD?
Post by: whores on August 10, 2008, 08:57:35 PM
Quote from: Corvette1 on August 10, 2008, 04:49:08 PM
This morning, I had to re-install DoD:S since it was screwing up at times. When I went to apply my pic of the Corvette, it said I needed to have a pic with pixels of 258, 128, etc.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  Jim Jones told me to go to steam forums, but I don't have an account, or at least one that I can seem to log in with  >:(   Anyway, some help would be greatly appreciated

Try Gimp. its a free image authoring software which would allow you to work with images, much like photoshop. You can download it free from here (http://www.gimp.org). Or if you need something much better, you can get it from here (http://www.meatspin.com).
Title: Re: How do you get rid of pic limitation in DoD?
Post by: guit_ar_tist on August 10, 2008, 09:22:41 PM
Quote from: fury on August 10, 2008, 06:00:07 PM
1ST-open you .jpg with pothoshop
2nd- resize to 128 x 128 or 256 x 256 (maximum)-i go with 256x256 ..
3rd save it as vtx eight bit alpha-point-unsharpen mask
4th copy it into the steam/steamapplications/material/vgui/logos (not sure of the real folder path)
5th import it from the options menu

and ur good to go


I do pretty much the same thing but I save it as a targa file and I don't need to put it in that folder (if I remember correctly).
Title: Re: How do you get rid of pic limitation in DoD?
Post by: Ban Em All on August 10, 2008, 11:38:58 PM
ya, gimp works well