Icons for characters

[Shoryunator]

I tried to make a select screen icon for Riklaionel & Nestor's Chris from his sprites, but when I try to replace it with the icon I made I only get a black box, I think I'm using the wrong filetype for it, I tried bitmap and PNG.

[ParanormalParanoia]

The file type is PCX.

[Arkady]

Save it in .bmp format

[Shoryunator]

Ok, I saved the icon I made in bmp, and I replaced the sprite that is the original icon with the one I made, but when I replaced it I just got a black box the size of the icon. What am I doing wrong?

[Cyanide]

No palette on the picture. A small portrait must use the same palette as the character, but should be added unshared. If you don't make the palette match the character one it will look normal in the select screen but turn to gibberish in fight.

This may have been altered in 1.1, i haven't actually got into doing stuff for that yet.

[Spidermew]

[Shoryunator]

Wow, thanks guys you helped me out big time, especially you SpiderMew. Now I can make icons!