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A quick tutorial
on making the titlescreen change By Nefarius Even I posted
this on cheatlist forums also people from the forum mailed me about this matter
so I said to my self ill make a tutorial bout it and post it on my site so
that I wont need to mail it bout 10.000 times. First you will
need to make a new image or convert a existing one, for this to work make sure
the image is 800x600 pixels and not even on pixel bigger!!! If you do make a
image with other pixel amount the results can often be VERY nice(laugh),
next you must make sure that the image has only 256 colors and is in pcx
format(zsoft paintbrush), next you will have to apply a palette to the file that
matches the Diablo II palette, if you don’t know where to get something like
that simply go here www.phrozenkeep.com the have both a tutorial on making a
palette by yourself or have ready palettes to download, after you applied the
palette you will need to save the image as titlescreen.pcx and convert the
image from pcx to the dc6 format used by Diablo II, do this with dc6con(also get
that one from the phrozenkeep), now simply use dc6con like mpq2k(throughout
run option in start menu) note: since this and also mpq2k are dos programs
you will need to have all files in the same folder, type in “dc6con titlescreen.pcx”
(DO NOT APPLY A TRANSCOL!!!), now after you have the dc6 image use psidc6(also
from the phrozenkeep) to test the image, if it works then read the green text,
if it does not work read the red text: if the image
seams to get twisted or has messed up colors then you have not applied the
palette, or your image is more then 256 colors, or you may have applied a
transcol by mistake, or your image is to big in size. if it does work
launch mpq2k and put the new image into this location: mpq2k a
patch_d2.mpq titlescreen.dc6 data\global\ui\frontend\titlescreen.dc6 now simply test
it and your mod should have a new title screen like my mods do 8-), aka: with
this very same method you can also change the char select screen(charselectbckg.dc6)
and also the trademark screen named(trademark.dc6). |
