How do I create a planets.bmp file?

[dominictus]

Hmmm...

Well I already put a lot of work into organizing the planets and making the secttype. As best that I can tell, the order is irrelevent to the game itself, so I'm not ready to scrap this project yet..

Fyron, did you create that planets.bmp that is in the planet pack? So what did you do, just use paint and copy and paste? If so, how did you maintain the 36x36 pixel size, that must have been really tedious? I'm just looking for an easy way to generate the planets.bmp. By using html, I was quickly able to create it on the screen quite nicely. Then I did a screenshot and pasted into paint. The prob though is when I launch the game, the planets are not centered, so I see like 3/4 of one planet and part of another, and NONE of the warp points show up, just white boxes, even though if I click on them the info pane on the top right shows the correct image there, so I know the secttype is working properly.

any ideas?

Thanks,

Dominictus