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Photoshop Loading Screen Template

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Hi, I made a photoshop template for creating Loadingscreen quick & easy.

1. Download the .psd file from the attachments and open it in Photoshop

2. Insert your loadingscreen like so:
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3. Use photoshop's "Save for Web" function:
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Drag-Select all slices so there are no grey areas left:
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Press Save... and save with these settings to a folder of your choice:
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Your files will be inside an "images" folder inside of your chosen folder:
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4. Convert the .png files to .blp by using your favourite converter (I used blplab-batch converter with these settings):
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5. Import the files into your map using the import-editor. Replace war3mapImported\ with UI\Glues\Loading\Load-Generic\
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6. Set Loading Screen to Generic
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And you're done!

Pros over the model-version:
  • No model file needed
  • Smaller filesize
  • Players don't need to press a key
 

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Dr Super Good

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Pretty sure that would break backwards compatibility with older versions? If it even works.
As far as I am aware all versions of Warcraft III supported non power of 2 textures. This is because the support is entirely up to the underlying graphic driver, and all modern graphic cards (eg the trash one gets integrated into a processor or the lowest end budget card from 10 years ago) and drivers support non power of 2 textures.

Textures larger than 512 in any dimension are only supported by recent versions of Warcraft III. (EDIT: this was reverted in an even more recent patch as of 1.30)
 
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As far as I am aware all versions of Warcraft III supported non power of 2 textures. This is because the support is entirely up to the underlying graphic driver, and all modern graphic cards (eg the trash one gets integrated into a processor or the lowest end budget card from 10 years ago) and drivers support non power of 2 textures.

Textures larger than 512 in any dimension are only supported by recent versions of Warcraft III.

I'm not talking about pot, but previous versions being rendered in 4:3 and stretched. So even if it would work, it wouldn't look good. (I would think)
perhaps with the custom model it could work?
 
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What are the pixel sizes of those slices? I'd love to use this method but I do not have photoshop, so I'd need to chop the image manually.

Edit: Nevermind, Figured it out.
For those wondering:
The full image should be 1024 x 768
The top panels should be 512 x 512
The bottom panels should be 512 x 256
 
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