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[Lace]

Hey everybody, it seems that a lot of people have been having trouble with this lately, so I figured I'd post how to do it.

First, open up a PBM by right clicking it and selecting "Open With" then choose the graphics editing program of your choice.

Second, Make any changes you want to the PBM, you may notice that you can't use some colors, this is because each PBM has a set pallette, if you want to change this pallete, open the PBM with CaveEditor, and select change Pallette, or copy the file into paint, and save it as whatever PBM you were editing, you can now use any color.

Finally, Run cave story, you may notice that an error similar to jhfdsjfhb,js pops up on the screen, and cave story closes. In your cave story file, there will now be a text document named error that has the name of the file you edited in it. To stop this error, you can either open cave story with your Hex editor, search for the string ©Pixel, and go over to the hex column and replace it with all 0's. The other option is to open your PBM with a hex editor, and at the very end of it, write in ©Pixel.

Yup, that's it

Black is automatically the transparent color, by the way.

Cheers!
Lace

ADDENDUM:
If you do this and are still having problems, right click on your cs directory and got to properties and make sure that it is NOT read-only.


okays, have fun!

[andwhyisit]

Stickied.

[PunxsatownyPhil]

I can't open "Arms" in Cave editor, so I can't edit the pallete

Edit: Never mind. I changed it to a 256 color bitmap. Wow, thanks!

[GIRakaCHEEZER]

One thing- when I try to save changes, it wants me to save it as a new file... and .pbm isn't a choice...

Is that your only problem?

Where it asks what type you want to save it is, choose the bitmap of your choice (16 color, 256 color, 24 bit, etc.) and then just add .pbm at the end when saving. Paint will automatically save it as a pbm then.

[jcys810]

I don't think it will save it as a .pbm that way if you're using the Show File Extensions thing.

But there's an easy work-around, just save the file with quotes, like "NpcJesus.pbm".

With the quotes, mind you

[GIRakaCHEEZER]

I don't think it will save it as a .pbm that way if you're using the Show File Extensions thing.

But there's an easy work-around, just save the file with quotes, like "NpcJesus.pbm".

With the quotes, mind you

Well it works for me when i save it as a 24 bit bitmap with paint,
so why don't you try it to see if i'm lying?
(note: i can also save .dat files this way, but idk how much good that would do me)

[DragonBoots]

Not exactly related to Cave Story, but the .pbm's for Ikachan can be edited and saved with no hex edits. (And by the by, Map1.pbm is actually the map. o.o')

Spoiler

(Am secretly modding Ikachan. >.>)

[Celtic Minstrel]

search for the string ©Pixel, and go over to the hex column and replace it with all 0's.

Interestingly, due to the way strings are handled it would probably be sufficient to replace only the opening parenthesis with a null character. Not that that makes any difference.

You could also replace the string with a different string of equal or lesser length, though I can't imagine why you'd want to do that.

[andwhyisit]

Spoiler

(Am secretly modding Ikachan. >.>)

Want any help? Why no-one has bothered to try this until now is beyond me.

[Uncy Dave]

[quote name='Lace'] The other option is to open your PBM with a hex editor, and at the very end of it, write in ©Pixel.

Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question but what do you mean by the very end of it?