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Creed · 11-15-2003, 06:57 PM

Could anyone help me with the procedure for changing a units default colour, like the terror drone to a yellow-ish colour (typical harvest drone).
I've created the unit, Yuri's Revenge acknowledges that it exists, i can guarantee i've entered the appropriate entrys to the artmd.ini and rulesmd.ini, the only problem i have is that my harvest drone appears like a regular terror drone, i attempted to give it a yellow appearance.

This is what i have tried:

1)I first extracted the dron.shp via XCC mixer, then changed it to .pcx.
2)I then opened up PSP 8 and used the 'colour balance' feature to boost the yellow effect. (i have Adobe Photoshop/Image Ready as well, if that makes it easier).
3)converted the edited .pcx to .shp once again and named it HDRON.shp, placed into my RA2 directery (with both rulesmd/art.ini entrys added).

And when i created the harvest drone, it behaved as it should (collecting ore), but it remained the default terror drone grey.

i only recently bought PSP 8 and Photoshop/Image Ready, so i dont really know my way around them, but any help would be great, thank you in advance.

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Creed Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 28	Editing SHP Colour's Question Could anyone help me with the procedure for changing a units default colour, like the terror drone to a yellow-ish colour (typical harvest drone). I've created the unit, Yuri's Revenge acknowledges that it exists, i can guarantee i've entered the appropriate entrys to the artmd.ini and rulesmd.ini, the only problem i have is that my harvest drone appears like a regular terror drone, i attempted to give it a yellow appearance. This is what i have tried: 1)I first extracted the dron.shp via XCC mixer, then changed it to .pcx. 2)I then opened up PSP 8 and used the 'colour balance' feature to boost the yellow effect. (i have Adobe Photoshop/Image Ready as well, if that makes it easier). 3)converted the edited .pcx to .shp once again and named it HDRON.shp, placed into my RA2 directery (with both rulesmd/art.ini entrys added). And when i created the harvest drone, it behaved as it should (collecting ore), but it remained the default terror drone grey. i only recently bought PSP 8 and Photoshop/Image Ready, so i dont really know my way around them, but any help would be great, thank you in advance.