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plaything 2 noob trouble

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plaything 2 noob trouble

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When I go into materials and make a new material and try to load a tif image 256x256 or even a 128x128 size one, it says "Error loading image file!"
I've read a manual on it, I googled the error, I searched in cwa but I just can't find the fix to this issue.
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Not sure what you're trying to do but making a new Material works fine for me.

Materials >> New Material (Ctrl + M) >> Load (pick a TIF) >> Apply >> Ok
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I'm trying to skin one of the original cars, I'm going to try what you suggested.

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Ok something weird happened, I tried to load my tif file with the exact dimensions of 128, and it still said "error loading image file"
but when I went into the cared folder ,and loaded a tif from the car it
comes with, it worked... maybe it has to do with the paint programs I used: paint.net and gimp 2.8
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You usually don't create new materials to reskin a car. Just edit the original TIFs.
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Ok I'll try that instead, as for the error I'm still curious,...just incase I wanted
to skin a blank car I made in cared, and put it in plaything2 to skin, will it let me put in a texture if it was in a tiffrgb folder?
Like I said before I did make it tif, and have the dimensions mulitples of 8.
Maybe it's because I didn't put it in a tiffrgb folder.
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That and remember to save the image as 24 bit, 16 million colors. I've made THAT particular mistake before not paying attention.
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Out of curosity, what paint program do you reccomend to use?
I can't seem to find any that can change to 24 bit 16mil colors.
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i use photo shop cs4 and its able to save as 16bit although i dont think its the same
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I use PhotoShop 6 (yes it's old).
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Thanks for the input, things are actually working out, I found a decent color depth converter
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