The picture in the Menu

[ViV 10]

Sup..

when you enter " Singleplayer - Scenarios " And then pick my mission... how do I get my picture at the right side, just above the play buttom?

[kylania 568]

overview.html

If you wanted a snazzy black border around your picture like the default missions I have a OverviewBorder selection for Photoshop CS5 you can use.

Edited August 12, 2010 by kylania

[ViV 10]

I don't understand the html format m8. Could you explain it for me?

[kylania 568]

Did you read the link? :confused:

It's a step by step description for how to make an overview.html and even includes an example you can copy straight from the page, just change the text.

[ViV 10]

Still don't get it... I don't know what i should paste the example into..

[kylania 568]

Ok you need two things.

1. A short description of your mission. One or two sentences at most.

2. An image you want to use, sized 512x256.

Post them here and I'll whip up your overview for you. :)

[ViV 10]

Operation Sandtiger

- this is it m8 :)

[kylania 568]

Sorry for the delay, work got in the way. :) Download these files and put them in your missions folder and it'll end up looking like this:

[ViV 10]

Hmmm.. can't get it to work m8 :S

[kylania 568]

You copied those two files, overview.html and overview_sandtiger.paa, into your My Docs\ArmA 2 Other Profiles\ViV\missions\sandtiger.takistan folder then opened the mission in the Editor and selected Save -> Save to single player missions then Exited the Editor clicked on Scenarios and clicked on your Operation Sandtiger mission and didn't see that image?

I see on the missions forum that this is an 8 man multiplayer mission. overview.html and it's picture only apply to Single Player missions, you won't see anything in Multiplayer.

Edited August 12, 2010 by kylania

[Devil Dogs SF 13]

Hey Kylania, how does one save as .paa? I use jpg and it doesn't appear to look as good as pictures using .paa format.

[kylania 568]

I used TexView 2.

If your image needs transparency, first save it as a Targa file with whatever Alpha Channel (32bit) you want.

Then open the Targa (or JPG if you don't need any transparency) in TexView and simply save it as a .paa file.

Edited August 13, 2010 by kylania

[Devil Dogs SF 13]

Thanks :)

[ViV 10]

Its not an multiplayer map m8 :)

[cyop 10]

overview.html

If you wanted a snazzy black border around your picture like the default missions I have a OverviewBorder selection for Photoshop CS5 you can use.

kylania, hi... ...What's the best way to use your OverviewBorder (in PS)?

[kylania 568]

CyOp, well, it's basically just the 512x256 outline BIS used for their Single Player missions in OA. Load it as a channel in your Overview image, select it, inverse and reselect to you have just the "outside" and delete that, then inverse the selection again and color it black to give yourself a transparent "outside", then black border, then your picture inside.

I'll whip up a little video showing this. :)

[cyop 10]

I had to dig up an old PS disk. Been awhile since I used PS. I got the pic shape right, but am working on the transparent background. Also, I lost the border in the process. Heh.

[kylania 568]

Here's the walkthrough:

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[cyop 10]

Thanks, I was waiting for this. I made my pic with border, but I guess I got impatient and made the border 'cut corners' off a little, from the BIS border.

[wiggum2 31]

Nice tutorial kylania !

Any way to get this effect (the shape of the image and the black border just like the original BIS stuff) without Photoshop, maybe with Pain.NET ?

[kylania 568]

The same basic steps and files will work with GIMP 2.0 also, which is a free graphics program.

[manzilla 1]

kylania,

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but it's pertinent to the conversation. I'm trying to save a .jpg as a .paa using TexView2 but when I try to open the .jpg I get an error:

Error loading file 'C:\Users\Dan\Pictures\pic.jpg'.

Is there something I need to do to the .jpg before I try to open it in TexView2?

Thanks for that tutorial. I never would've figured that out. And for your website. That is a fantastic resource.

Thanks again bud!