My Own Logo?

[LAPD]

Hey :wave:

At the start of the Flashpoint campign, there are the BIS and Codemasters logos.
I was wondering, is there any possibility of creating my own logo?

Thanks  

[Cedaie]

I think if anything, that would breach copyright status on them logos, if its for yourself though, u can probably find them in .paa, or .pac format in the data.pbo.

edit: yeah they are in the data.pbo, so just use an un-pbo extractor, find bis1.pac, bis2.pac and cm1.pac, and see what you can do.

cheers

[Chomps]

Look for a tutorials in creating a squad.xml file.  Basically, in multiplayer, you can have your logo and some personal information about yourself stored in this file.  Your logo will be displayed where you saw the BIS logos on vehicles that you command or drive and will be visible from the player information screen to all other players.

The only catch is, you need to host the file yourself, so if you do not have a web host, it may be slightly difficult.

If you want logos on single player units, I guess you would have to edit the textures and create new units, in which case there are plenty of tutorials for that, but it is not very easy as I understand.

[Messiah]

:noo:

sorry, dont mean to be rude... those are not under copyright if used in a ofp mission.... you can find the BIS and Codies logos in the triggers/effects at the bottom (select it in the scroll bar, under resources) - of ocurse they are copyright if you use them for something else  

to make your own, just place a jpg in your mission folder and then make an entry into the description.ext to tell the game that you want the picture to be a resource

then it will add it to the trigger list and you can access it in the same way

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class RscText
{
   type=0;
   idc=-1;
   style=0;
   h=0.040000;
   colorBackground[]={0,0,0,0};
   colorText[]={0.080000,0.080000,0.120000,0.750000};
   font="tahomaB24";
   size=1;
};
class RscPicture
{
   type=0;
   idc=-1;
   style=48;
   colorBackground[]={0,0,0,0};
   colorText[]={1,1,1,1};
   font="tahomaB24";
   size=0;
};

class RscTitles
{
   class Amethyst
   {
      idd=-1;
      movingEnable=0;
      //change this if you want to have the picture fading in (fade in time in seconds)
      fadein=1;
      //display time of the picture in seconds
      duration=4;
      name="Operation amethyst";
      controls[]={"Background", "Picture"};
      class Background: RscText
      {
         text="";
         colorBackground[]={0,0,0,1};
         x=0;
         y=0;
         w=1;
         h=1;
         colorText[]={0,0,0,0};
      };
      class Picture: RscPicture
      {
         text="OApic.jpg";
         x=0.125000;
         y=0.250000;
         w=0.750000;
         h=0.500000;
      };
   };
   titles[]={"Amethyst"};
};

basically thats what i used to get a jpg (called OApic.jpg) into the game... modify to suit.

:thumbsup:

[Chomps]

You know, I read his post about four times before I replied because I did not understand what Cedaie was talking about.  Apparently, the "at the start of the Flashpoint campaign" part did not register, and I thought he was talking about the BIS logos on vehicles.

Now I feel silly.  ;D

[LAPD]

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[KTottE]

The error message means that the picture is not in power of 2 size.
Power of 2 size means that the sizes you can use are:

2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024

And any combination. 2 x 1024, 16 x 32, 512 x 512, 256 x 64
and so on.
I am not sure if there's a size limit (Not bigger than 1024 x 1024 for example) but make your pic 128 x 128 or 256 x 256 and it should be ok.

Cheers, KTottE

[LAPD]

Thanks   .

And one last question, from where can I get the un-pbo extractor?

Edit: oh, one more question  . When I create the picture, how can I see it's size?

[blath]

wen u "explore" the directory with the pic in and select the pic file hopefully its dimensions will come up in the status bar (make sure u have that enabled in the View menu ) i know it tells u there in xp but i cant remember if other versions do

if not, try right clicking on the file and selecting Properties

finally, some programs such as Paint Shop Pro tell u, but i dont think all graphics programs do



blath

[LAPD]

O.k, I made a picture of 600x800, didn't work.
Then I made a picture of 800x800, still didn't work.

What I want is a picture on full screen. I want that people who start the game at res of 600x800 or 768x1024 (or any other res) will see the picture on full screen (it's my logo).
Like the BIS logo at the start of the game, on the black background ... I want the same, just with my logo except the BIS logo.

How can I do that?
And from where can I get the un-pbo extractor?

Thanks For Replaying So Far  

[Messiah]

make the picture 256 by 128 - ofp will stretch it to full screen (depends what size border u specify in the descrip)

the un-pbo is available from our site - editors depot, editing aps - not sure if its up at the moment

[LAPD]

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[Messiah]

well - you have to make the pic bigger - basically make it as large as the ofp screen can be...

now... ofp pictures have to be (well in my experience) twice as wide as they are high....

so 256 and 128....

so take one of the numbers KTottE gave u as the width (large as possible) and then make the height exactly half that.

that should work... i hope  

[LAPD]

Well, then your experience must be good .

It Worked!  

Thanks!