newly made pilot skin nearly blew up my machine

goonybird · #1 (**permalink**) 24th July 2005, 01:06

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 · #2 (**permalink**) 24th July 2005, 02:13

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

Serval · #3 (**permalink**) 24th July 2005, 10:36

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

SeaNorris · #4 (**permalink**) 24th July 2005, 17:20

Yes that is true.

Aero_Shodanjo · #5 (**permalink**) 24th July 2005, 17:30

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.

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