newly made pilot skin nearly blew up my machine

[goonybird]

took a shot of my face with a friend's dig camera and thru photoshop, inserted it right where the old pilot's face was..... merged the layers into 8-bit, and thought everything was hunky-dory [too simple, eh?]...when i put it into the game [pacific fighters] all hell broke loose.... ... had massive graphics distortion - millions of different colors across the screen....forced me to contrl-alt-del ... what are the rules for "face-skinning"?....is there a resolution i need to bring the photo to, and/or is there margins i have to keep the head within, ....etc???
thanks!

[SkyChimp]

Could be heat and or power problem. I'm sure it wasn't the pilot hehe

[Serval]

One know pitfall with pilot skins (causes invisible pilots) is you must not use spaces in the filename.

[SeaNorris]

Yes that is true.

[Aero_Shodanjo]

Hmm, I dont know what caused the problems, but are you sure you change the pilot face in this directory: \PaintSchemes\Pilots ?

The file size (.bmp extension) is 66kb. The same as the other pilot skins.

Like this attachment (in .jpg format):

[goonybird]

BINGO!!!
got it to work.... 65kb bmp file, made sure it was in the right place...some wierd things may have converged at that moment i first tried it... ...something else to think about ... now i can vicariously live thru me.. ....gee, im handsom!
thanks

[Aero_Shodanjo]

You're welcome, glad we can help