I've made about 5 different loading screens for my map now and none of them have worked because of this dds thingy. all i keep gettin is

"image is non of power two"

Can anyone help me because its really annoyin because i cant do any other pictures for the game .

Power of two reference to the mathematical term power. It means a number multiplied by itself twice, three times, four times and so on. For power of 2 this means:

2*2 = 4
2*2*2 = 8
2*2*2*2=16
2*2*2*2*2=32
2*2*2*2*2*2=64
...etc

It is often written as 2^x. The ^ is read as power.

More simple power of two is any of the following numbers:

2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, etc...

So for example an image of 8x256 is fine, one of 20x256 is not since the 20 is not a power of 2.

For a loading screen you image size has to be 1024x1024.

So in photoshop you need to create an image of that size, using crop or other tools to get that size. So check that the image you have prior to saving as a DDS has that width and height.



edited on Jun. 2, 2006 11:46 am by sentchy

Nice one m8 chears i owe u one

sentchy writes...
Yes, but how can i create a size for my image? "using crop..." where is that tool? (im using PS 9)

try creating a new image, setting up the image size there, before pasting in your screenshot. There's also a resize function somewhere that does the same thing after you've edited your image. Not sure where it is exactly, as my trial just ran out

PS has a couple of tools for cropping, both on the upper section of the floating toolbar. One is the crop tool which lets you desigate your size, and the second the the "selection" tool which, once selecting the part of the image, lets you ctop from the menu bar.

Resizing an image to a a new size with different proportions changes the, well, proportions and will make the image look stretched or "squished".

i do crop it and resize it...but cant again save in .dds extension (i have a Alpha Channel)
Can some 1 see whats wrong???
512cm x 512cm

hi again.
i have rezise my image to 16x16 but, and when i do Enter the 16x16 change to 16.007x16.007(non power of two)
Any sugestions??

tuning19 writes...Dont't change the size by cm, inches or anything else. You have to change it by pixels.

I had made a 1024X768 Image that works all fine so far.