On a map i am trying to make my custom material does not load and show, instead its a sort of yellowish colour instead of the set texture. Can someone please fix it and tell me what's wrong with it so i don't do this again. I have given it it's own index number, i've changed it's colour for the mat of the scene .bmp and can't think of what's wrong, please help me. THanks

your material.ini shows that your trying to use index collor number 963, and there are only 256 mat collors. and also: you made it black, i am sure the game cant see the diffrence between all the other black collors.

Oh, the index is to do with the colour used in the mat file? I thought it was just a way of defining it instead of the instance name. What should i do to solve it?

Look at the Material file.
And some lines should say:

//Index ### Not defined. (Replace ### with a number of your choice.)

And then change the Index line of you mat to....
Index = ### (Once again, Replace ### with a number of your choice.)

PS:
Index = 9999999 would only work if it's for actors/objects.

no, its harder then just changing the number to a random value, first one question to lazyfaith, do you have photoshop? if so here is how to make a custom material:

go to your map.bmp in photoshop and go to "image -> mode -> collortable", you can see all the collors here in indexed order, if you want to add your own material: just press on one of the black squares and choose a collor you want to use. write the collor "RBG" code down and the indexed number, and then use the collour to draw in your map, and use the indexed collor in your code.
here is a pic to clear things up:

The bottom of this post explains exactly how the custom material process works. If you can call it working.

http://datarealms.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 74#p202674

Thanks, that definately solved the problem of it just being a yellowish colour. But now i have a new one, instead of the texture i want it to be it is the word default in black thousands of times on a red background, any help?

sorry, the indexed numbers start at 0 not 1, so just lower the number of your [material] index by one

works perfectly. Thanks all of you. This can be locked now.