Basic Modding Help, Please...

[Scott Hebert]

Thanks, PvK.

Now that I know that a 5R mage isn't totally broken (in 20+ turns of hiring one a turn, I have only seen a single 3 pick, and no 4 or higher), I can go ahead with my more ambitious project...

But I'm running into another roadblock. How do you create a .tga file? I don't have access to anything but the basic Windows programs, and while they can create the 24-bit images required, they can't save them as .tga files. Reading another thread here concurrently, apparently there's a program called GIMP. Is it free, and is it easy-to-use? I'm not really an artist, and while I don't care what the .tgas for my new units look like, I want to know if I'll be able to wrap my head around it.

Scott