nate kane

thanks everyone for all the help so far. still having a problem with editing the pck files due to my inexperience. ive gotten them converted to gif using bomb blokes pck2gif utility, and ive been trying to edit them with ms paint, cause thats all i know how to use, and i dont even know much about that. in bb's manual on his tools, he says "These use transparency, so if the background appears green - You're using the wrong sort of viewer." im getting a green background, so id assume that paint is the worng viewer. does anyone know what the right viewer/editor would be? also, i have no clue how to work with transparencies, im not even sure if paint handle that. if anyone could post a crash course in working with transparencies in gif files, id really appreciate it. thanks!

thanks zombie for the help. ive been trying to get into changing the graphics for some of the weapons and ive run into some problems. i cant get pckview to work, so ive been using bomb blokes pck2gif, and when i run the program for bigobs, the colors are all screwed up. what can i do to fix this? also in bb's tutorial he mentions if i see green background, im using the wrong viewer. i get the green background in paint, whats the optimal editor for these files? thanks again!

couple of questions about some basic modding 1) if i go in and change english.dat and english2.dat, is there anyway to lengthen the names of the weapons? is there a maximum length of characters that weapons names can be? 2) is there an editor out there that will modify the weight of items? if not, can anyone give me some tips on how do change the directly with a hex editor? thanks for the help!

hey, just downloaded pck view and for the life of me i cant get it to work. i downloaded .net framework and installed it, and extracted the files into my xcom root folder, and into the unit folder where the images i wanted to open were. everytime i start it runs fine, until i try to open a file and then it freezes. i am running vista (which could be whats killing me) and i have the steam version of xcom cause i had the original on 3.5 floppys, and now matter how hard i jam, they just wont fit into any hole in the laptop any help is very appreciated.