Helping A Newbie With His Faction

[Flux]

Uhh...
So I have a pic of Tim Cook for the leaderhead of the next faction of mine (The Apple)
So when I paste it into the .pcx it turns blue and purple... Is it just the pallet?
I've attached it. It does look rather cool, so I may use it anyway. But I'd rather not.

[Buster's Uncle]

Supper.

I'll have a look shortly...

[Flux]

Supper.

I'll have a look shortly...

It's not the PCX. I just remembered I'm using a copy of it I made into a .PNG so I could use Paint.net...
Still confused.

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay - when I pasted it into a faction .pcx, his hair was blue and tan, which does not look good.  Some photos paste in beautifully, but some don't take to the limited 255 color SMACX palette very well at all.

Basically, that's an exaggeration of what's in your .png, if you look close.  I'm guessing you need to use the Fuzzy Select Tool to (TEDIOUSLY) select his hair and reduce the color saturation a lot.  Let the gray hair be gray.

Processing photos into paintings is tough to teach -it's a lot more intuitive than most faction art skills- but it's doable.  My avatar began as a photo, believe it or not.

[Flux]

Sick days give me way to much time.
Take a gander at the Boys from Brazil fac graphic.

EDIT: Wrong Thread

[gwillybj]

Here's a version of your Tim Cook leaderhead without purple hair. I did it in the old version of Paint Shop Pro I always use (v3.11).

[Buster's Uncle]

Why Tim Cook and not Steve Jobs, anyway?  They're all clones...

[Nexii]

A faction set of 7 large Earth corporations might be interesting. 

Pharma > growth
Oil > economy
Tech > research (Apple)
Telecom > probe
Retail > support, or efficiency
Aviation/defense > morale
Commodities/conglomerate > industry

[Flux]

Why Tim Cook and not Steve Jobs, anyway?  They're all clones...

Actually, this Tim Cook is supposed to be the real one who lived long enough for the immortality tech that keeps all the leaders alive in the game to be invented.

[Flux]

This will hopefully be the last time I dig this up.
Anyway, I'm trying to add a voice file for the quote to my Creche faction.
The pitch is EXTREMELY deep. Like, you wouldn't be able to tell what he was saying if it weren't for the blurb text.
So, I changed the pitch to be higher. Turns out the file... Stutters? I think thats the right word.
Well, the mp3 sounds fine. But it stutters ingame.
Anyone have a clue why? I'm attaching both the upped pitch and normal .mp3's.
( CRECHE - is the normal pitch.)