Please help with loading screen

[diehard480]

I need help with making an image formatted so it can fit into the loading screen for my new map. i have gone to wc3 editor and the one on this site and i am still having difficultys. if there r any suggestions on what to do plz tell me! if all else fails i will need someone to do for me... ty

 

[HorizonTal]

What kind of difficulties?
Difficulties in converting the image to .tga?
Difficulties in making it fit the screen size?
Difficulties in reducing its file size?

 

[Cyper95]

okay you got your picture.
get Irfanview
open your picture in it and go under image category then go to Resize/Resample in the bottom right click Resize (faster) now in Width and Height put in 512 (both of them ofc) save the file as TGA (Picture will automaticly fit the screen when it loads
get wc3 viewer
when you have launched it press CTRL+V find your picture that is saved in tga if it asks for alpha channel say yes. you should probably choose a quality between 50-75 for the sake of size
now download the loadingscreen.mdx i uploaded import both to your map and change the custom path on the picture to FullScreen.blp (case-sensitive i recall)
then go to scenario>loadingscreen choose imported file thingie and take the one there is

 

[diehard480]

this may be a bit of help to the mystery(for me). i uploaded pic fomr interwebs... editted it in Adobe PhotoShop...
and i need to know how to convert to TGA file format. i got the loadingscreen.mdx thingy. i got the viewer. i need tga file then im done i think.

 

[manstie]

No, you need BLP file and import it as FullScreen.blp
TGA is for war3mapPreview and war3mapMap (The pictures of the map)

 

[Cyper95]

you dont have to call it fullscreen.blp just change the path ^^

 

[Own-]

who can make for me too?

 

[diehard480]

k this is really pissing me off, im going to backup plan. if any1 wants to help send me a message and i give u link to make the pic formatted and stuff. ty for all the help so far

 

[Storyyeller]

Just go into Photoshop, click save as, and save the image as a .tga
If it gives you the option to use run length encoding, be sure to turn it OFF.

 

[diehard480]

storyyeller i did what u said but it says "blah blah blah is not a tga file..."

 

[Storyyeller]

If you post the image here, I could convert it to a TGA for you I guess.

 

[Aesthetics]

I have a thorough and informative tutorial for this.

Simple Loading Screen Tutorial

 

[diehard480]

YES! I got it a while ago but couldnt post it. thank u so much