Newbie question: Importing Images into maps

[Mr.Burns]

Afternoon all,

Forgive the newbie question but I have had a little free time on my hands recently and have been trying to dip my toe in the water of Quake Mapping. To add a little realism to a map I wondered what the process was for taking an image (bmp, gif, jpg) and then converting it in to a format I can use within a map to produce a picture, texture or whatever else takes my fancy. I seem to recall someone mentioning that the pallette has to be changed to something more Quake friendly but if anyone has any helpful suggestions (cough, peg, cough ) on how this is accomplished I would be grateful if you could pm me or post them in this thread.

Kind regards

Monty

[Mindf!3ldzX]

How NOT to make normal maps from images or photos : KatsBits TUTORIALS

I am going to be ready to test your first map out monty

[Spike]

you can use some tool like adquedit (there are probably better alternative programs) to create a texture wad which can be specified in whatever mapping program you're using.
It'll look like poo though, so be sure to use an engine that supports 24bit replacement textures.

[Seven]

Hello Mr.Burns,

I think I have seen some ancient maps where the elders idolized a once living human, who looked a little bit like you do....

They chiseled his portrait into stone, so that he lived forever

Ahh, I just found the map:





I hope you dont mind
It was just a joke (a little bit british humor maybe ?)

Good luck Mr. Burns.
Seven

[Mr.Burns]

Hello Mr.Burns,

I think I have seen some ancient maps where the elders idolized a once living human, who looked a little bit like you do....

They chiseled his portrait into stone, so that he lived forever

Ahh, I just found the map:





I hope you dont mind
It was just a joke (a little bit british humor maybe ?)

Good luck Mr. Burns.
Seven

lol. I Love it. Thanks Seven

[JDSTONE]

i like texmex for making the wad file
TexMex - Features

and i use gimp to convert jpg to tga

[golden_boy]

wally is unbeatable for working with wads, I think. It has a lot of paint tools built in. Almost a paint program for Quake wads. Also has auto import and wad merge wizards.

[Mr.Burns]

Thanks you to all that replied, I'm trying to take a simple photo and make it in to a sort of Poster within the map. I'm trying these apps as we speak but just wanted to say thanks

Kind regards
Monty