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Smoke Me A Kipper

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There's a folder called Emblems in there. Emblems are upside down. They are not png files. Some extension I don't really know much about which is not an option in Adobe Photoshop. Oh well I'm too busy blasting things to figure this out. Someone who gets this can tell me what to do when I pause in the middle of blowing things up.
 

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Yeah, I'm very, very, surprised it isn't PNG. The Gimp doesn't recognize the format either. Interestingly, Windows recognizes it just fine and displays the contents... go figure.

Ah... and a web search indicates it's a DirectX thing. So there are definitely tools out there to work with it.

This will be one of my high priority things to figure out since so many people want it. But first I'll be playing the game at least far enough to get to the part where you can choose your company logo. Need to be able to test changes, after all. And once I'm that far in, there's a high risk that I'll want to try some procedural missions.
 

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You can Use Paint.NET. ( https://www.getpaint.net/ ) It's a great and free little image editing program and allows saving your .png's to .dds files which Battletech uses. Don't forget to flip the image upside down!

Someone just posted a guide on Battletech Emblem editing on Reddit as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/Battletechgame/comments/8emrs2/using_a_custom_mercenary_logo_how_to_guide/

Yep, was gonna suggest the PAINT.NET thing, I just did it, saved image upsidedown (has to be), and then renamed a file in the EMBLEM folder, and then saved mine there with that name and:

bajrFyY.png
 

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Yep, was gonna suggest the PAINT.NET thing, I just did it, saved image upsidedown (has to be), and then renamed a file in the EMBLEM folder, and then saved mine there with that name and:

bajrFyY.png
So, to be clear, you do not have to replace a given file, you can add them?
 

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You have to overwrite one. I tried adding one named envTxrHrld_157.dds (there are all named envTxrHrld_001 through envTxrHrld_156.dds), but it didn't work unfortunately. Maybe there's some further modding to be done to allow this.
 

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Most likely adding them will just require an additional line in the VersionManifest.csv file. A quick check does show them all listed there.

In any case, keep in mind that the crest and colors screen shown above is for multiplayer... and your opponent will almost certainly see the image that you replaced if they can connect at all (not sure how strict the checks to verify files are the same will be).