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DannyDeth
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If I want to make a good looking icon or image for a CC weapon, does it make a difference what file type you use? I thought this because I see all the gfx for CC ( at least the origanal ones ) are .png images, so does this really make a difference?

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DC
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yes, many weapons use bmp files. many icons as well. you didn't look carefully enough

the important advantage of png is that it offers transparency levels for soft transparency gradients etc. bmp only offers the transparency levels visible and invisible (realized with magenta as mask color which becomes invisible).

so if you need transparency stuff (more than just fully visible/invisible): use png. otherwise you can choose from both. you'll get the same result. there is no difference in quality.

(of course png has also compression but this isn't important because CC compresses the files for transfer anyway and you compress them with a zip archive if you publish them online)

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DannyDeth
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OK, cool. I have definatly got a lot to learn on my little side of the world. I was just wondering if Paint.NET was a good program for making the weapons, anyone tried it for CC?

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DannyDeth
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I thought this was the Carnage Contest forum? Why are you guys chatter boxing over cs2d here of all places?! Hehe, you closed a thread because they were talking about cs2d on a CC thread, starnge world this is.

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Nem
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DannyDeth has written
Why are you guys chatter boxing over cs2d here of all places?!

You think that cuz i asked about cs2d ?
Btw, wash your eyes and look carefully, DC said about compressed files in CC here, and here i asked. i think thats better than make new thread
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