So I need to create a bitmap with multiple bitmap indexes, similar to ui\hud\bitmaps\sniper_scope_crosshairs2.bitmap

How would I go about making it in gimp?

If I'm not mistaken, you want the command;

tool BITMAP source-directory

NOT

tool BITMAPS source-directory


For each index, save a completely separate .TIFF file. It may not be needed but I would make sure to name them 0, 1, 2, etc.

Then run the command and it should compile all the images into a single .BITMAP file.

I can't get it to work. I saved my tiff files into one folder, named them 0,1, etc, and ran the "tool bitmap" command on the source directory but it says: failed to open TIFF: file does not exist

However if you put the filename at the end of the directory the bitmap will compile but only that single one.

I also tried the "bitmaps" command on the directory and it compiled separate bitmaps.

I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong.

are your image files on ".tif" format ?

You need to put all of the bitmaps in one and then add a blue background around it, kinda like this:


I think you need to put each bitmap under other.

Yeahh that's it.

Thanks guys that worked :D

For future reference to anyone seeing the thread:

Border needs to be 1 pixel between images.

Border must be pure blue. R/G/B. 0/0/255


Unless theyre sprites the bitmap should be a power of 2. (4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048)

They don't need a specific amount of pixels in between them, it just works if they are under each other. Thought I would tell to save you some time.