character wad

[Naga]

I'm making a new character wad, but the sprite for it is surrounded with a square of a certain colour, how do you get rid of this square?

i am using the eXtendable Wad Editor (XWE) and ms paint, i also have nero photosnap.

 

[JTE]

Recolor the "square" to cyan before importing the frames in XWE. That color is transparent in SRB2 and most other Doom-based games.

 

[Naga]

thanks!

 

[Naga]

another problem,though, do you have to do the names like xxxxa2a8 or xxxxa1 (xxxx=name)?

 

[JTE]

Yes. But the 4 letters can be anything you want.

 

[Naga]

its finished but they is an error when loading
<R_InstallSpriteLump: Bad frame charactersin lump 2516> what does it mean and how do i fix it?

 

[JetKrazy]

list all your lump names. Maybe you forgot some, such as the "Character name=, face=, etc" lump

 

[Naga]

don't think i've forgotten that, maybe its just the editor, xwe, which can only name entrys in upper case.

 

[Shadow]

bad lump...i think that means one of the sprites, or the character stat file, is bad

 

[Naga]

the stats? maybe i'll just change them, just a sec'...

it is'nt the stats, maybe it's the last 10 entrys (the lower case one's) there in upper case and i can't change them to lower case.