Loading screen problems

[Thoric]

im getting really tired of having these problems. i followed the tutorial by sfilip more than five times, i re-downloaded the picture and followed the process again......... the screen is still black!:banghead: can anybody help me?

 

[Scary Nachos]

Hm... upload the map?
What tool did you use?
Is your picture the right size?
Are you using GIMP or PS?

 

[Thoric]

i used infraview and warcraft 3 viewer. i cant upload the map because it is too big. its already over 3 meg. i resized it to 512X512 from a 800X600, saved it as tga, converted it to blp, imported it and loadingscreen.mdx, chose loadingscreen.mdx ad the file, renamed the picture to fullscreen.blp, and it still doesnt work. if you need to see the map, i can send it too you via email.

 

[Scary Nachos]

Try and save it to 1024x768
that might work

 

[Thoric]

no that didn't work.

 

[Faust]

I don't think loading screens are models (therefore not mdx but blp).

 

[Thoric]

in the tutorial it says that you need that file. besides, the loading screen menu where you can choose the loading screen the only thing you can select is an mdx file.

 

[Scary Nachos]

Did you name your MDX File = LoadingScreen.mdx
And your BLP File = FullScreen.blp
?

 

[Thoric]

yep

 

[Alagion]

Make sure that the files do not have any path before them.

e.g.
war3mapimported\LoadingScreen.mdx won't work.
war3mapimported\FullScreen.blp won't work.

Customize their paths so that they will simply be without anything before the filename itself.

e.g.
LoadingScreen.mdx
FullScreen.blp

 

[Thoric]

been there done that didn't work.:banghead:

 

[UndeadDragon]

Did you correctly save the alpha channels?

 

[Alagion]

You could try naming your picture FullScreen.tga already in IrfanView and then convert it to FullScreen.blp. If you just name your imported .blp -file to FullScreen.blp in World Editor's custom path, it might not work.