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Old 11-29-09, 02:45 PM   #1712
Laconic
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Originally Posted by Roger Dodger View Post
Thanx. I'll give that a try. I just went through the tutorial (which I hadn't noticed before). The Patrol Stars and Flags are a little trickier. Do I have to make a new 'mask' after each patrol? Looks like it.
If you want to edit an existing .tga (to add more flags to it, maybe), yes, you'll have to add a "new" mask. That's because .tga's don't know the difference between different layers and masks; all of those are "flattened" into one image when you save it as a .tga for the first time. They all exist, but you can't manipulate them like you could before you saved it.

So, to add more flags, just open your old kills.tga, put the new flags where you want them, merge the visible layers (Image->Merge Visible Layers), select everything using the "Select by Color" tool, and add a mask to your new, edited image, and then save it.
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