see thru elephants

[imthefrgt10]

ok i reskinned an elephant and when i put it in the game under the roman faction it is only visible close up, and even then not to great, could someone please help me with this problem i am using the gimp to reskin the units

[vikrant]

what did u used ps or gimp

while saving the textures u should make option " generate mipmaps" on


edit it looks funny though :tooth:
and post these kinds of questions in mod workshop

[Hader]

Belongs in the Mod Workshop, not the tutorials section.

[John I Tzimisces]

Moved to...the mod workshop.

[Zuwxiv]

Your settings are turned down, by the look of the screenshot. When the unit gets so far away, it changes from the 3d model to a 2d sprite - you didn't make the sprite, so it is invisible once it changes.

If you increase the settings, you might be able to see it farther. But you need to make the sprites.

[imthefrgt10]

ummm im lost on that im zoomed in all the way and i have principes that do the same thing and theyre sprites show up but they dont when im zoomed in

[Publius]

If the sprites arent there and you call on them the game should (in theory) crash - unless you commented out the sprites bit or still have the old one.
From the skins I have seem, imthefrgt10, I think you are doing something wrong when you are saving them. Make sure that the swap red with alpha button is not on, that you have deleted the previous mipmaps, that your skin is set as a tga.dds file and that compression is set to DXT5 (and generate mipmaps). Of course, remember that the skin cant be transparent in the first place (the checkers should not appear through parts of the skin with 'color')

[imthefrgt10]

ok well ill tak a ton of screens to show everyone what i did

[Lusted]

The problem is: there aren't sprites for this unit. This unit for other factions has sprites, but does not for this one, but is looking for sprites as the model uses it for other factions, but it can't find it so it doesn't show anything. Just get rid of the model_sprite lines in descr_model_battle.txt for the elephants.

[imthefrgt10]

its ok i figured it out!! GIMP SUCKS AND PS IS BETTER, i downloaded ps and saved it using that and it worked