Extracting XCC Images

[Hach-Que 0]

I came back to RA2 editing today, because I want to make my own team.

 

I've got XCC, and I tried to follow the guide, but I can't find out where to set the Palette, the tutorials tells me to select a menu item which doesn't exist, and none of the other ones work. I've extracted cameo.mix and cameo.pal. What do I do now?

 

EDIT: I didn't have my RA2 selected, and I need to restart XCC Mixer for the change to take effect.

 

UPDATE: I've made my PNG, and I've applied the palette I extracted from giicon.shp (I'm using Fireworks CS3). When I convert my PNG back to SHP however, it looks all friggy and the colors are all wrong. I presume that's because when I apply the palette in Fireworks it doesn't keep each color in it's position. Does anyone know any free software that will take a full image and allow me to apply the .pal file to it?

Edited December 17, 2008 by Hach-Que

[Doctor Destiny 41]

The palettes from RA2 weren't made for Adobe products, they were made for JASC products. However, GiMP should be able to use the palettes converted out from the game.

[Hach-Que 0]

Okay, if I get a conversion working from PNG (with only selected palette colors) to SHP, I'll write a guide on how to do it.

 

EDIT: I've got it working.

 

Edited December 18, 2008 by Hach-Que