Mod help?

[BandarLover]

What little I have seen of it is quite cool. A lot like Illustrator. Thanks Ballbarian

GIMP works nicely, and I was able to enlarge the Bear Sombre so graciously made me. Is there some way to get rid of the purple 'shadow' under the pic in game? Or atleast let it look like a real shadow?

[Sombre]

That colour of pink translates into a real shadow in the game, just as 0 0 0 translates into transparent. Unless I made a mistake with the colour that is.

Should be 255 0 255.

[Foodstamp]

Change the shadow to magenta (red 255, green 0, blue 255), that is the shadow color in dominions.

[BandarLover]

O.K. using GIMP I noticed the shadow was 251 0 251

I tried changing it to 255 0 255, but I'm doing something wrong (again)Still shows up purple-ish I beseech you mighty modders to grace me with your knowledge once more!

[Gandalf Parker]

It is purplish.

The standard practice in games (or any program) is that if you are going to have a special effect forced into a graphic, then you need to have the area for the affect be colored something you dont plan to use. Its like green-screening used in making movies. That way its simple for a program to remove that color and do the effect there.

For the position of a province on the map Dominions uses 1 pure white dot (255,255,255) but you dont need to worry about that for modding.

For transparent Dominions uses pure black (0,0,0).
For a shadow effect Dominions uses Magenta (pinky purple) 255,0,255)

I think thats all of the reserved colors that Dom uses

[BandarLover]

Hmmm....that makes sense but it shows in game as purple-ish (Magenta is it?) Just looks funny when all my other units have black shadows, but my giant bear pretender has a purple (magenta is it?) shadow. I'll fool with it some more.

[BandarLover]

The following is what I have done so far for my mods pretender, Revenant of Shardik:

Shardik
#newmonster 2716
#name "Revanent of Shardik"
#spr1 "./Barbarians/bandarbear.tga"
#spr2 "./Barbarians/bandarbear2.tga"

#descr "The Revenant of Shardik is the physical manifestation of the great bear god, Shardik. He always appears in bear form and has some skill in earth and death magics. His immense size makes him a formidable brawler. The world will once more fear the thunder-maker as it was in past ages."

#ap 16
#mapmove 2
#hp 180
#prot 14
#size 5
#str 24
#enc 4
#att 13
#def 8
#prec 8
#mr 12
#mor 50
#gcost 100

#nametype 131
#restrictedgod 71

#startdom 3
#pathcost 80
#expertleader
#expertmagicleader
#magicskill 3 1
#magicskill 5 1
#itemslots 12288
#mountainsurvival
#wastesurvival
#trample
#fear 3
#end

My quick question is, why does he show up as mindless?

That's all.

[Foodstamp]

50 morale makes units mindless. Lower his morale to 30 and all should be good