Haidere guys, 'tis my first Topic post. Yaay for me.

So, I'm working on a mod built out of sprites and such grabbed off of the old Sprite Dump thread. So far i have 2 guns; A rifle, (Which works) And a Pistol; (Which is what crashes it)

Upon loading, it says that it can't find the sprite file. I have no idea how to fix this at this moment; I have all the names and such right. Here's the error:
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RTE Aborted! (x_x)
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Failed to load datafile object with following path and name:

ArisTech.rte/Devices/Sprites/AL-4R000.bmp

The last frame has been dumped to 'abortscreen.bmp'

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OK
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Even though in the gun's INI File, I have it set to:
SpriteFile = ContentFile
FilePath = ArisTech.rte/Devices/Sprites/AL-4R.bmp
FrameCount = 2

- If i add make it "FilePath = ArisTech.rte/Devices/Sprites/AL-4R000.bmp", then the error just says the same thing, but only with 6 0's. I hope somebody can help me with this! I've checked over it many times, and i've scoured the Rifle's file to make sure i have it right. It should all be the same. Thanks in advance to any kind soul who may be able to help~ Mod file is attached.

EDIT: Solved! Big Thanks to JayTasslehoff!!

After some trouble shooting, I replaced said sprites with some of my own and realized that the format you saved your originals in is the problem. The bit depth is too great, it needs to be 8-bit.

Okay, thanks man! I'll get to it. Thanks again; I would've never figured that out myself.

Oh np, sadly I cannot figure out why or how you managed to change its bit compression type, but you probably saved it as a 32-bit to begin with as I could not convert it myself.

The funny thing is, I honestly have no idea either.

On another note, Do you know how to add glows to a bullet? I'm (attempting) to make a laser rifle for use in the pack, Any help with that would be awesome, if it's not too much to ask

No Idea, but if I had to guess its either

A) A Lua script which attaches a glow sprite to bullets, or uses a custom glow sprite for the rounds.


B) An ini script which does the same thing.

I'd ask a professional.

Add that in the Particle = MOPixel definition part of your round. Look in Base.rte to see what glows are available or make your own using an image manipulation program and put it in your mod.rte.

If you want a proper laser weapon, don't use boring old MOPixel bullets!

The updated W40K Compilation has some touched-up beam-style laser weapons scripted by CaveCricket. You're welcome to use the scripts and code as you see fit, most of it should be fairly easy to understand.

That said, if you want silly laser bolts rather than full-on beams then go right ahead with MOPixel bullets.

Lol, thanks for being so darn helpful guys!

I'll try all the methods and see which i like best x3
(If i ever release the mod, you guys are going into the credits for being so dayum helpful )