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Custom Race portraits

February 23, 2006 11:29:41 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
It's really easy to create your own race portraits- simply open up your GFX/Races folder, and use the existing race portraits as a template. Paste a new portrait in, save it as a new .png file, and voila. I created a custom Borg portrait and logo. I imagine you could even paste your own mug in there and be your own evil dictator as well. If anybody wants the Borg ones I created, let me know where I can send them! Joy!
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James009D
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Reply #1 February 24, 2006 5:26:41 PM
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Oooo! I've been wanting to do this. Thanks a lot!

Just one question, what pictures do you need to copy and edit to have a fully custom civ?
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Reply #2 February 25, 2006 1:40:35 PM
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At last! My evil dictactor doesn't have to be the fellow with the moustache any more . . . I just avoided looking at him But he was the only choice other than the standard human head . . .
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Reply #3 February 26, 2006 3:07:27 PM
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Yay, now I can finally slap a psilon portrait in for my uber-technology race!
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Reply #4 February 26, 2006 10:46:18 PM
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But will it use the portaits automatically for AI minor races?
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Reply #5 February 27, 2006 11:37:27 AM
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You don't have to paste over an exsisting race portrait. You need a 256x256 png file at 24 million colors. Call it "RaceImage__" __ being a number higher than 59.
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Reply #6 February 27, 2006 2:19:25 PM
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Does anyone know what I can do to change the races names? I don't care the portraits are not ok, bust just changing the names helps me playing in different "universes".
Thanks!
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Reply #7 February 27, 2006 5:27:28 PM
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You don't have to paste over an exsisting race portrait. You need a 256x256 png file at 24 million colors. Call it "RaceImage__" __ being a number higher than 59.


Actually, you don't need a number. Doing something like "RaceImage_syreen" will do just fine.
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Reply #8 February 27, 2006 5:49:36 PM
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Ok, I'm new to modding, and I can't quite figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to add a new pic for the race portrait,, and all that's coming up is a blank (solid black) portrait square. Can anybody advise?
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Reply #9 March 1, 2006 5:08:19 PM
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Maybe you haven't saved it in the right format? I use Photoshop, open up one of the race portraits or logos, and then paste a new one on top of that (Just to make it easy). Use the transform command in Photoshop to resize your new pic- these are small .png's. Save it as a new name so you don't overwrite your original file- as a .png, and it should work. I've done Star Trek Federation, The Borg, Star Wars Empire, and Star Wars Alliance. You can then create a custom race by picking your new picture and logo. The next step is trying to create each races unique starships. I'd love to create a Deathstar, or a borg cube.
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Reply #10 March 1, 2006 6:05:22 PM
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Kickass!!! It worked, thanks. and a Deathstar or 2 WOULD kickass
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Reply #11 March 7, 2006 11:28:23 PM
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Why dont you upload your borg and any others people get in the library where other people are sharing some nice stuff I'm sure ever bit is appreciated

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Reply #12 March 7, 2006 11:28:26 PM
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Why dont you upload your borg and any others people get in the library where other people are sharing some nice stuff I'm sure ever bit is appreciated

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Reply #13 March 8, 2006 12:05:17 AM
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Done! It's been uploaded. Give them time to review it and it should be available in the library soon. If I do any more customs, I'll upload them also. I can think of a few...an Invader Zim would be fun...oooohhhh!
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Reply #14 March 10, 2006 1:59:04 AM
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You can nearly "google" any image on the internet and resize it so possibility is endless. Last night I made (more like resized and saved to right format ) a Charmed portrait. Power of 3. Heh. Neo from the Matrix. Darth Maul...
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Reply #15 March 13, 2006 12:09:21 AM
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I'm curious, but how would you go about making a race logo that is transparent on the 'outside' of the logo image?
For example, let's say the logo is a circle. Now I want my circle to appear in game as a circle, not as a circle with empty graphic around it. How do you do that?
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Reply #16 March 13, 2006 1:19:12 PM
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The easiest way to create a logo with transparent edges is to build the image in Photoshop over a transparent layer and then do a save-to-web with your output file type set as 24-bit PNG file. That will totally do the trick for ya.
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Reply #17 March 19, 2006 8:47:44 PM
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do you know if there is a way to do this with MSpaint. i don't know of a transparent background feature. it is a very basic program, as you probably know.
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Reply #18 March 20, 2006 12:29:58 AM
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mspaint can't do that....unfortunately....but there should be some free utilities out there....google is your best friend..it does everything as long as you pay attention...
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Reply #19 July 23, 2006 9:02:20 AM
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edit: why did my post appear in the wrong topic...
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