question about psp7

[CyroTek]

i´ve got a little prob, cause always i save a bmp skin in psp, and import it in half-Life model viewer, he say´s could not load bmp texture, and then i open it in paint and save it as 256colour, but then i lose some colours, what should i do? i´ve got no idea, sorry for my english, please help me, sorry if it is the wrong topic

 

[Bolteh2]

nothing you can do, hl models only accept 256color bmp's

and when you have a skin with lots of detail in it and then save it as 256 color it prolly will change some colors to match the 256 color scheme

its best to skin like all gray parts in 1 bmp, all blue parts in 1 bmp etc ...