Bright problem

joes1944 · #1 (**permalink**) 10th November 2006, 16:29

I've saved the bright folder on my C-Drive/Program Files. I saved the finished skin as; .bmp A4 A5 ONE 1. Then I moved it into the Bright folder. When I open up the Bright folder I have a blue square with a yellow gear cog in it; Bright MS-DOS Batch File1KB. And to the right of this is; a blue square, Bright. And to the right of both of these is my skin that I moved into the folder. I double left click on the Batch file, a black flash, the image/skin is now at 411KB. I add the image/skin into winzip and unzip it into the Il-2/paintschemes/skin folder as I've done before with other skins. NOW, when I open My Computer/C-Drive/Program Files/Il-2/Paintschemes/Skins/Fw-190A/9. My skin is there. BUT, when I open the game/quick missions and set up the FW-190A/9 to check out the skin, it's not even listed there.

Serval · #2 (**permalink**) 10th November 2006, 17:08

Did you save your skin in 24 bit mode from PSP? You should not change it to 8 bit / 256 color mode in PSP.
What size is your image before you start?
Normally when you save it as 24 bit mode it is about 3 MB.
Then run Bright over it and the filesize should be around 1 MB.

If it has another size then something is wrong with the image and IL-2 will not accept it and thus not show it.

joes1944 · #3 (**permalink**) 10th November 2006, 21:37

	Quote: Originally Posted by Serval
	Did you save your skin in 24 bit mode from PSP? You should not change it to 8 bit / 256 color mode in PSP. What size is your image before you start? Normally when you save it as 24 bit mode it is about 3 MB. Then run Bright over it and the filesize should be around 1 MB. If it has another size then something is wrong with the image and IL-2 will not accept it and thus not show it.

I do not have 24 bit mode as an option only;2 color palette, 16 color palette, 256 color palette, 32K colors 8 bits/channel, 64K colors 8 bits/channel, X colors 4/8 bits/channel. If I read you correctly the size of the image before I start is; 3314K on disk, and 4107K in Ram. OR 1024 X 1024 pixels, pixels per inch 74,000. I'm begining to think I bought the wrong software program.

Serval · #4 (**permalink**) 10th November 2006, 23:03

Try 32k and 64k, which ever generates a 3 MB filesize will be the correct one.

Snake · #5 (**permalink**) 12th January 2007, 16:31

Here Joe Just for you Buddy

Bright Tutorial PDF:

http://www.cs-kc.com/tutorials/Tutor...G%20BRIGHT.pdf

Furb0 · #6 (**permalink**) 17th May 2007, 16:39

hi there that link Snake dont work would it be possible for som1 to point me in right direction ,,as I'm trying to install Bright to use with PSP pro _demo ,and have basically forgotten how I'm supposed to install "Bright " correctly .....

Thx Phil aka Furb0

Serval · #7 (**permalink**) 17th May 2007, 20:42

http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/foru...ng-bright.html

Snake · #8 (**permalink**) 18th May 2007, 21:29

Here Buddy I edited the link try again

http://www.cs-kc.com/tutorials/Tutor...G%20BRIGHT.pdf

Furb0 · #9 (**permalink**) 10th June 2007, 10:46

Thx Gents for the info ,,and apologies for not replying sooner.......

Only darn problem now is trying to find a decent link for D/L Bright ......

adlabs6 · #10 (**permalink**) 10th June 2007, 18:13

Hi there, this is the original source for BRIGHT:
Bright - Texture Converter