Campaign Creations

How can I change the color and the facing of unit portraits? (Like in antioch chronicles)

I bet this has been discussed before but I can't find it.

Extract SMK. Convert to JPG. Photoshop JPGs. Recompile.

I'm not very mod smart, and not to be annoying, I don't even know what that stuff is.

You need to dl the rad tools from smacker.com That allows you to view and convert the .smk files from starcraft's mpq. smk are the video formats for starcraft portraits. Once you convert them to a jpg using rad tools open them in photoshop, there will be like 100 frames, edit each one to your liking, save (make sure in 256 color starcraft pallete), and recompile them into a .smk file, import into winmpq and there you go!

I know how to do this, but I haven't personally due to the amount of time it takes.

Thanks.

Whoa guys wtf, don't use JPG. It'll fuck your shit up.



Use another format like BMP, PNG, or since StarCraft portraits use a 256 colour palette, a GIF is fine too.

Mmm.. Artifacts.

They're the key to the end of all things, so they say.

Well, I have smacker tools, but they're being gay. Everytime I open it it just show a bunch of signs saying "Step 1;..." and then it closes when I hit OK.....

Fatburger666 wrote:Well, I have smacker tools, but they're being gay

lol u sed gay

Lol, fine. They're being lesbian, those lesbo smacker tools.

Use Rad tools, the updated version of smacker tools.

Yeah, I downloaded that big file with all RAD and Smacker, but I think someone here said use smacker tools before, like I said, I'm not that much of an advanced modder, very basic here. I want to learn more.

You guys have helped alot, except Taeradun....

Use Smacker, I heard RAD distorted SMKs when Smacked.

Fat, all I did was click my happy heart out at even getting the chance to mod portraits without knowing a damn thing other use "use Smacker to convert to individual images and then edit them each and smack them together" ... Mess around with it more than 10 seconds. I understood the program within 5 minutes, and unit portraits was the FIRST thing I started modding, I never went into advanced modding.

Fatburger666 wrote: Well, I have smacker tools, but they're being gay. Everytime I open it it just show a bunch of signs saying "Step 1;..." and then it closes when I hit OK.....

Neither my smacker nor RAD tools are working and I just re-downloaded them, still have problems, damnit.
I was actually starting to make a big modded campaign...


EDIT: I think the problem is something with my computer because I downloaded them on a friends and they work fine, this pisses me off. I need to get a new computer.

Could it be that they don't work on Win98?