so i have been folowing donut's custom pickup icon tutorial and i have gotten all the way to the part where you turn the .tiff into a bitmap, in tool++ i get an error saying:

### hud_msg_icons.TIF
==> !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1 <==

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#120x#40#1)

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i have redone everything twice and it still has the same message. anybody have any ideas? how about you donut?

Doesn't this go in technical help?

I don't think you set it to sprite in the bitmap tag.

if you guys want, i could send you what i have so far and you can take a look at it.

since i cant find a image host that uses tiff, here is this:

http://www.filedropper.com/hudmsgicons

The size of the needs to be in a power of two. You also have to set the .bitmap to a sprite and then recompile.

how would i do this, i only have it as a .tiff that wont turn into a .bitmap

First, resize the TIF, to something in the power of two. Power of two = 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, etc. Once the length and width are powers of two, compile it in tool. Once it's compiled in tool, open up the bitmap in Guerilla, and set it to a sprite.

http://www.modacity.net/forums/showpost.php?p=107093&postcount=18

This helps.

if i am right the file is 200 wide and 2000 long, so what would be a good size that will work for tool.

Either 128 x 2048, or 256 x 2048.

that got rid of this: !!WARNING!! bitmap with greater than 1-bit alpha being compressed as DXT1

but now it skips everything in it:

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#24x#29#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#24x#30#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#24x#30#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#24x#29#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#122x#26#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#100x#33#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#48x#39#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#95x#42#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#82x#33#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#38x#40#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#62x#56#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#66x#39#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#112x#25#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#48x#42#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#79x#46#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#93x#46#1)

skipping bitmap with non-power-of-two dimensions (#120x#40#1)

Maybe try setting it so it's an interface bitmap (without power of 2 restriction)

Still seems to have to same problem :P

You need to make the bitmap tag a sprite and 32 bit, and setup the sprite pallete.

1024x1024 works for everything it like a magic password ^.^

also thoughs are not all powers of 2

powers of 2 would be->
2
2*2=4
2*2*2=8
2*2*2*2=16
2*2*2*2*2=32

and so on... If I'm not mistaken

and some of thoughs dimensions you have arn't even even numbers for length or width or both.
Edited by skynet on Jul 7, 2009 at 01:19 PM
Edited by skynet on Jul 7, 2009 at 01:20 PM

Hes making a sprite pickup icon. It doesnt need to be 1024x1024, it wouldnt even go in that large as a sprite.

Oh as a sprite i see... I don't know anything about sprites =/

but you do have to make sure they all sized in the power of 2 for example 2width by 16 length should compile fine in tool.

Edited by skynet on Jul 7, 2009 at 04:48 PM
Edited by skynet on Jul 7, 2009 at 04:48 PM

i am mainly concerned on the one i made myself, i dont really care about the others. i made a custom spartan laser icon that is 120x40, what would i size it to so tool will compile it

Into a power of two. Powers of two:
2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, etc.
You can only put it into a size that uses one of these numbers. The closest you can get to, using yours, would be 128 x 32.

Try 128 x 32 there powers of two and the should compile.

EDIT: lolz gamma beat me =/
Edited by skynet on Jul 7, 2009 at 05:05 PM

perfect, it worked but only the lazor

What else are you trying to do?

Sprites doesnt have the power of 2 restriction. They can be any size under 512x512. It just needs the bitmap tags set to Sprite

I just set them to interface bitmaps :smug: