Decals
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**Then open your .tga in Gimp. You should see the transparent area as being a tinted checkered pattern. | **Then open your .tga in Gimp. You should see the transparent area as being a tinted checkered pattern. | ||
**Go to Color>Posterize. A slider with a number going from 1 to 255 should appear. The program will probably automatically select the optimum number of colors you need for your image. For my crossbones image, I only needed three. To keep your file size under 5KB, you will have to use 16 colors or less, and possibly even fewer than that. | **Go to Color>Posterize. A slider with a number going from 1 to 255 should appear. The program will probably automatically select the optimum number of colors you need for your image. For my crossbones image, I only needed three. To keep your file size under 5KB, you will have to use 16 colors or less, and possibly even fewer than that. | ||
| - | **After you press ok, to to 'Save As' | + | **After you press ok, to to 'Save As' and overwrite your file. A window allowing you to use RLE compression should appear, press Yes and save. Check your file size. |
If it's under 5KB, transfer it to your 'customdecals' folder and try it out. | If it's under 5KB, transfer it to your 'customdecals' folder and try it out. | ||
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