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saving maps for importing into loathing
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:30 pm
by vinylrake
hey stupid question. anyone know of a non-photoshop mac OS X app (preferably free) that can save an image as an 8-bit pict image?
i am trying to edit a color map, and need to import it into loathing. i used to do my color mapping in PS on a non-intel OS X mac, but this intel mac i have now doesn't support classic apps. i've tried saving as an indexed bmp in gimp after indexing to 240 and tried save-as in a number of other apps but none of the apps appear to support saving as pict so the resulting image files aren't recognized by loathing.
help?
Re: saving maps for importing into loathing
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:57 pm
by Myrd
Have you tried opening the indexed bmp and re-saving it with Preview as a PICT? Not sure if it will save it indexed, though. (Also likely won't work on 10.6.x, since they removed PICT support from Preview.)
Re: saving maps for importing into loathing
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 7:11 am
by vinylrake
Myrd wrote:Have you tried opening the indexed bmp and re-saving it with Preview as a PICT? Not sure if it will save it indexed, though. (Also likely won't work on 10.6.x, since they removed PICT support from Preview.)
that's my problem - i am on 10.6.3 and i can't find anything with PICT.
thought your tip about 10.6 might have been the key - did some searching and found you CAN still save files as PICTs (find Preview app, right click - get info, turn on the 'run in 32 bit mode' switch and start up preview - it adds 'pict' to the save-as dialog). but unfortunately even after indexing a map to 240 colors, saving as a bmp then opening in preview and saving as pict it still doesn't load in Loathing. Loathing (1.7.2) crashes when it tries to load the colormap. Nothing in the myth log but the usual.
oddly(?) the name of the loathing app is 'Loathing 1.7.2 Build 361' but the log identifies it as 1.5.2
2010-07-24 07:12:21 Loathing 1.5.2 running under MacOS 1063 ------------------------------------------------------------
Loading Patch Files...
Patch 1.2
Patch MariusNet
Patch 1.3
Patch 1.4
Patch 1.4 Interface
Patch 1.5
Patch 1.7 Templates
Magma - Bungie Map Textures v1
Loading Patch Files Succeeded
Re: saving maps for importing into loathing
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 7:27 am
by vinylrake
update: GraphicConverter will save in the 8 bit PICT format that Loathing recognizes.
Re: saving maps for importing into loathing
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:45 am
by Industry
Re: saving maps for importing into loathing
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:56 am
by vinylrake
Yes, that's the one. I have an ancient version that predates OSX that runs on my OS 9/X dual boot mac.