LilLucy Posted February 18, 2023 Posted February 18, 2023 Does anyone happen to know how to uncompress a TGA File?? Im struggling to find a way to do so atm INSIGNIA242.tga FINFLASH242.tga Quote
Spinners Posted February 18, 2023 Posted February 18, 2023 I find GIMP so easy for making decals and especially if you make your default 'canvas' a transparency. My tutorial is on here somewhere. I'll convert these for you. Give me 5 minutes. Quote
+Gepard Posted February 18, 2023 Posted February 18, 2023 To work with tga files you need a paint program which can handle it. I use a very old PaitshopPro. Quote
Spinners Posted February 18, 2023 Posted February 18, 2023 (edited) I've done them at 90% opacity. The finflash has been scaled down a bit to give a gap around the finflash. It was touching the sides which won't work (well it will, but the entire mesh will be covered in colour). FINFLASH242.tga INSIGNIA242.tga ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited February 18, 2023 by Spinners Added piccie 1 Quote
+daddyairplanes Posted February 18, 2023 Posted February 18, 2023 still discussing GIMP, now that he gave you a fish lunch, i'll teach you how to fish for yourself. open the file, under files select Export As (NOT SAVE AS) then make sure teh file type is .tga uncheck the box next to RLE compression. this pops up the first time you open GIMP, and then it will stay that way for any other tgas you open during that session. open any others you need to fix and export them, allowing overwrites. sometimes when working with serials, i forget to uncheck the box first time out. so i might make a dozen serial number decals before realizing the filse sizes are too small. so i have to follow the steps above to fix them 1 Quote
+Wrench Posted February 19, 2023 Posted February 19, 2023 TK's decal tutorial (available around here someplace!!) says a minimum of 5 pixels between the image and the edge of the background. I try to use substantially more Quote
LilLucy Posted February 19, 2023 Author Posted February 19, 2023 6 hours ago, Spinners said: I've done them at 90% opacity. The finflash has been scaled down a bit to give a gap around the finflash. It was touching the sides which won't work (well it will, but the entire mesh will be covered in colour). FINFLASH242.tga INSIGNIA242.tga ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ah i see, though when i checked on my libyan finflashes suprisingly they didnt have a gap but they did work Quote
LilLucy Posted February 19, 2023 Author Posted February 19, 2023 It'd be like trying to mod the weapon file on TMFs Mig-29 though/ a needle in a haystack Quote
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