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Heya
Im trying to learn how make a new interface. After I change main menu background picture I also have to replcae color table. After I replace color table picture looks nice but texts "new game" "multiplayer" etc start to look rly screwy

Can I use two diffirent CTs somehow ?One for picture and one for texts ?
Or maybe there is some other way to have new pic & original text - both looking good ?

big TIA

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One more question - there used to be "build-in interface" option somewhere in Fear". Unfortunatly i cant find it anywhere - is it avaible on PC Fear or is it on of MAc-only options - or am I blind or something ?

cheers and TIA

I'm pretty sure that you just build the local as a plugin file, but I could be mistaken.

For the interface itself... if you're just working on the main menu, you may have discovered that all those images are in the same collection. As a result, they all have to share the same colourtable. If all you want to do is change the picture, you need to export an instance of a button normal, and an instance of it lit up. Open each bitmap in photoshop, in addition to your background image. Make a new document big enough to house all 3, then copy each into the new doc. Set a transparency background colour.... usually 'true blue', then index the image. You get a colourtable that will index the buttons, as well as the main image. Once it's indexed go Image----> Colour Table, which brings up a window with the ctable. Save it somewhere. Export all the buttons images from the collection, convert them to RGB, then convert them back to indexed, but choose 'custom' then 'load' and find the saved ctable. Index everything and import back into amber. Should work smoothly.

If you wanted to create your own text images, you'd make them and then repeat the process above with making the master ctable, then indexing them individually and importing.

Any more questions, just shoot.