Agghhh! Help!

[Durandal-Thoth]

'ello gentlemen.

Well, I decided to get back in to modding Starcraft out of sheer boredom, and I was recently putting together a graphic for the Battlecruiser. However, the frames are currently at 1024x768, and naturally they need to be lowered to 256x256. So what I need to get done is to find a way to crop out the surrounding blackness while keeping the crop centered on the exact same area for every frame. I'm not really sure how to do this. Another question regarding graphics work is breaking down one image into multiple smaller pieces using GIMP or some other basic program. I'm making a Planet sprite for Space terrain and since it's far too large to fit into a single frame, I figure I may do a little iScripting.

Lastly, even though no one really knows too much about the LO* files, I've experimented with them a bit, and I was wondering if it would be possible with mounting two turrets on one unit? I played with the idea of mounting a turret onto another turret that was mounted on a unit, but that didn't really work out.

Thanks in advance.

[IskatuMesk]

You should be able to have two turrets in a unit if you have all of the proper iscript entries and the .lo file. Note that from my tests without the lo file, though, they only spawned the turrets when preplaced in a map. I am unsure if the Lo file actually changes this since I had discontinued ITAS before getting around to trying it.

As far as cropping something out of blackness, record a script of your first crop and run it on the others in photoshop maybe?

I don't know about cutting out segments, you'd have to ask someone who has more photoshop experience, but again, scripting would make it a lot easier.

[Durandal-Thoth]

But am I able to mount two turrets on two different points on a unit? Would that require one edited LO* file or two seperate files? I was never under the impression that iScript and turret mounting was related to each other.

It also does not help that the most I know about GIMP is filters and basic functions. Scripting is beyond me.

[IskatuMesk]

You can record scripts for batch processes.

But am I able to mount two turrets on two different points on a unit?

Now that I am not sure about... you can try different offsets, but I am unsure if the .lo file will override it.