Well..
so I followed this tute to the letter. First try didn't work, but I'll get onto that in a sec.
Second try kinda worked. As stated I followed the tute, and loaded in the art for some chaos plate chest armour and linked it all to normal plate chest armours animation. Uploaded the muo file and repatched. I then basically just to test it grabbed the normal plate chest script, renamed it, changed any reference in the script to platechest to chaoschest, changed the base item ID to my new ID using the tiledata hex value, removed the flip attribute line and fired up the server and logged in. Added the item. No worries lovely tile art, drag it on over to my paperdoll, lovely gump art, but as soon as I release my mouse button it won't stay and just flies back into my pack. Just to check, I found the proper plate chests info in tiledata, and made sure all the same checkboxes were ticked and they were fine. Can anyone offer any suggestions or say what I might have done wrong?
If it helps I'm using client 4.0.4t.
Now... my first attempt I again did all as instructed but got no art in game at all. After scratching my head, beating it on the desk a bit, screaming t the cat I thought I would try attempt two as listed above which did show artwork. I then began to consider that perhaps it was the art i created myself that was the problem. What I did was grabbed a photo of some Roman Lorica Armour, isolated the armour bit, placed it on a black background, positioned it in the correct place after resizing to the correct image size for UO to use. I then saved this as a 32Bit BMP. I then rotated it 45 degrees, resized it again for the correct art tile size and saved this also as a 32 bit BMP.
So... I thought maybe it needs lesser quality so I resaved them as 16bit the smallest my Photoshop seemed to allow. Again... still no art in game. The weird thing is that if I use the gump pic to replace the normal chest armour gump pic, I can see it, but with using it and the tile graphic to make my own, it doesn't work. Anyone able to tell me if this is because of the way I made the image (using photos) or offer any suggestions so I know for next time?
Sorry to be a pain.
Cheers guys
Sarin
(edit) I just had another look, and when I do [props it says my custom breastplates body position is Gorget, but it is allocated Quality 13 which is torso and the same as the standard breastplate....