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Game Creation => Requests => Tutorials => Topic started by: typeswithoutspacebar on July 14, 2010, 07:00:16 AM
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when i try to import characters i made on the charas generators it says invalid image size how do i fix this? is there a limit to how many pixels a charaset can take up?
i am using RPG Maker 2003 and Idraw3 for editing. please help otherwise my game is pretty much dead :x thanks.
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2.7 Image Sizes
You remember me talking about that a character you make in the generator is only 1/8 the size of a charset? Well here is where I talk about what you do to make it. First, let's look at the RTP (Run-time package) charset that comes with RPG Maker.
<img src="http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa18/aforgottenlegend/Tutorial018.png">
(this one comes with both 2000, and 2003)
Notice there are 8 characters on it? First, save your character. Do NOT save the character at 3x. Click here:
<img src="http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa18/aforgottenlegend/Tutorial019.png">
Notice the different file types. Please follow the directions below those file types.
Now that you've saved it, there are two ways I'm going to describe to you to make it able to be imported into RPG Maker 2000/2003.
Option 1
1.Create a new image with the Height of 256 and the width of 288.
2.Paste you newly saved character into the image.
3. Save as a PNG or BMP file.
4. Open it in a program like Ultimate Paint or somethign similar that will save in 256 colors. Do NOT use Paint. It will ruin your colors.
5. Import into RPG maker. (More info on that later)
Option 2
1.Open up your newly saved character.
2. Change the Canvas size to 288 width, 256 height. DO NOT CHANGE YOUR CHARACTERS HEIGHT OR WIDTH AT ALL.
http://www.charas-project.net/forum/index.php?topic=21062.0 (http://www.charas-project.net/forum/index.php?topic=21062.0)
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Like AFL posted:
A charset's size is 288x256 pixels. With a max of 255 colours(you can use Irfanview to fix this, or simply change an existing and working charset and saving it with a different name)
A battlechar's size is 133x384. Same colour restriction. Even though the second part of a battlechar usually include 3 poses(right attack, left attack and idle stance) it needs to be the same size.
A faceset needs to be 192x192.
A chipset needs to be 480x256.
And so on.
But as AFL also explained. You need to put the charsets into a "set", Just how the RTP looks.
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Without there being a set, its just a character, and rpg maker imports charsets.