How to edit SHP files in Steel Panthers!

How to edit SHP files in SP!
With Fred Chlanda SHP-editor!

by Ivan Bajlo.

1. Get the latest Fred Chlanda SHP-editor from Fred's web page
2. After unzipping it and starting it you'll get this:

3. Turn on effects:

Use old Header Steel Panthers and perhaps other programs use headers to describe some images stored in the shp file that are not compatible with Shp Ed's interpretation of the header. When this occurs, the message box will display _Problem??_. When replacing an image in the shp file with one of the _problem_ icons, check _Use Old Header_ and the original header will be preserved. (Fred Chlanda)

SP-No Flash SP uses quite a few flashing colors to animate water and the like. The color numbers are 112-127 and 224-255 for those who wish to edit the palette file. Usually, you wouldn't want your tank to have a flashing turret. Use the No-SP Flash checkbox to exclude the flashing colors when a bmp is converted to a shp image. (Fred Chlanda)

Use Full Pal

4. Load color palette 'Steel.pal' using this icon:

5. Load SHP file you want to edit using this icon: after that you should get this:

6. Chose number of image you want to edit: , you can see chosen image by clicking: .

7. Change SHP image into BMP by clicking: .

8. Edit BMP image in some picture editor.

9. Load BMP image: .

10. Change BMP image back into SHP: image is saved in New_shp.shp

11. Now for the main part! Overwrite original SHP image with your SHP image: - image will overwrite the image which number is displayed: .

12. New file is created Bignew.shp which is a copy of the original file with your image in place of the old one!

13. If your image is not centered well you can use to fix it!

Hope this helps, send any questions you might have so I could add more!

My E-mail: Ivan Bajlo

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