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Has anyone done an Albanian coat of arm? I tried but unlike the DVIP-additional coat of arms, which worked fine, the bitmap I made is unable to load at all. Either the double-headed eagle on gules (although Wikipedia gives it as argent on the Lezha CoA instead of sable it would become) of the league of Lezha which also shows up on a bunch of coat of arms of albanian princelings at the time (it's on Kastrioti, Dukagjini, Muzakaj and Arianiti arms) or the Azur, an eagle or of the Thopia principality.
 
I got these...

ALBANIA.png


1. Despotate of Arta (Shpata)
2. Principality of Valona & Kanina (Stratzimirovic)
3. Principality of Arbër (Progoni)
4. Muzaka Principality of Berat (Muzaka)
5. Principality of Kastrioti (Kastrioti)
6. State of Arianitet (Arianiti)
7. Principality of Dukagjini (Leke)
 
I don't know if there's anyone still working on CoA's, but it would be great if someone help me. I need a CoA like this below, in wooden texture:
Erb_P%C5%99emyslovc%C5%AF.png


I already tried to do it, but can't find the way to make it work properly. It's all about the colour palette - if 256-col., it looks terible, if 24-bit - the same, but only during the game.

And that's my own "child":
dboh.png
 
Looks great, maybe if that cross would be little higher... Anyway, that's not a problem. More complicated is, that I have the same problem as in my earlier CoA request - don't know how to convert it to work properly in CK. I don't have Photoshop, only GIMP. Turning 32-bits doesn't help, 256-colored (by MS Paint) makes it horrible-looking. I tried also to convert it into 16-bits - there are 2 options of such conversion in GIMP, but the first one keeps CoA invisible for the game, and the second make it crash when initializing.

Maybe you know some program that I can use to it? And it's free of charges...


btw always nice to see someone from my hometown :D what part of Lodz are you from? :)
Same to me :) but never guess you're from Lodz, really...
I used to live in Widzew, just few steps to Śródmieście. I moved out few years ago, in close neighbourhood to the city.
 
Looks great, maybe if that cross would be little higher... Anyway, that's not a problem. More complicated is, that I have the same problem as in my earlier CoA request - don't know how to convert it to work properly in CK. I don't have Photoshop, only GIMP. Turning 32-bits doesn't help, 256-colored (by MS Paint) makes it horrible-looking. I tried also to convert it into 16-bits - there are 2 options of such conversion in GIMP, but the first one keeps CoA invisible for the game, and the second make it crash when initializing.

Maybe you know some program that I can use to it? And it's free of charges...



Same to me :) but never guess you're from Lodz, really...
I used to live in Widzew, just few steps to Śródmieście. I moved out few years ago, in close neighbourhood to the city.


free? sadly I cant help ya. I use photoshop and turn it into 128x128 .bmp they need to be max 50k.
check them out ingame as the CoAs in game tend to be a bit lower than in .bmp ;)

Widzew huh? I grew up at Piotrkowska near the Cathedral and lived a while in Dabrowa near the big fortress-like Church :)
 
I use photoshop and turn it into 128x128 .bmp they need to be max 50k. check them out ingame as the CoAs in game tend to be a bit lower than in .bmp
Maybe that's the reason why it doesn't work, I didn't check the size, only length and width of it. I need to look at some new program to convert files into .bmp with exact size :)