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Ocean
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Posted: 15th Jul 2007 20:58
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...and I have gone through some basic tutorials and am now at Monster Hunt. It's going fine and I seem to understand almost everything.. except I can't freaking get the bitmaps to work for the textures... there is a place to download them but I do not know where to put them. If anyone could help me I would appreciate it a lot because I'm sure it's easy, but I just don't know what im doing.
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Libervurto
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Posted: 15th Jul 2007 21:13
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ummm... could you explain a little more.
You can't use bitmaps as textures only images.
But you can load bitmap files as images. (LOAD IMAGE "picture.bmp",1)

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Posted: 15th Jul 2007 21:19
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When you download them, save them in the same folder as your DBA file.

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Ocean
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Posted: 15th Jul 2007 21:45
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DBA file? ...god i hate myself... I'm already getting confused with the whole load image command because I don't know how it knows which folder to go to.. i've gone into the bitmap folder, then into textures and tried (LOAD IMAGE "Cloth.bmp",1) which is already there but it says it does not exist... im sry for being such a noob at this, but if u could just bear with me i would be grateful.. (this will probably not be my last post on this topic because i fail )
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Oh right, sorry I misunderstood the question

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Ocean
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Hmm.. it turns out I did not need to download them.. I only figured so because it said the files do not exist.. I have gotten 1 of them 2 work which is (LOAD BITMAP "cottag02.bmp",1) but (LOAD BITMAP "Barry.bmp",2) does not seem to work... DB is saying the file does not exist.. i originally tried LOAD IMAGE which worked for neither but when i switched to LOAD BITMAP it only worked for the cottag02 bitmap... ne 1 know what i might be doing wrong?
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Put it in the same project folder.

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Load Bitmap will load the image into a hidden bitmap with the number you specify. You need to switch to that bitmap and grab the image if you want to use it later. The important thing to remember is that with Load Bitmap you NEVER get to see it if you use bitmap number 1 or greater!

Load Image on the other hand loads the image and can immediately be put on the screen with Paste Image.

Don't use Load Bitmap until you fully understand what it is doing.

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