o2 NOOB needs Help

[Meathead]

I actually opened up my o2 today and was trying to do one of the tutorials... the one about the M16.
THe first thing it says to do is to put a texture in the background to make it easier to start creating the model.

ah right, sounds simple enough...

So I go into o2 and hit "A" like it says and I draw a box

No problem there

Next I right click on the box and select "load Texture"

I browse to the .GIF that the tutorial says to use and hit OK

AN Error pops up saying:

Unable to convert texture, Pa2Pal error!

What am I doing wrong?

I searched the forums trying different solutions (most of wiched were aimed at texturing the model related)
My files are in a folder called ofpedit in my ROOT C:
I opened the gif in PS 7 and changed it to 256 x 256 even though by the tutorial that shouldnt have mattered because it was the gif that came WITH it.

Im wondering if my o2 is configured wrong???

[Pathy]

Download texview and convert it to PAA or PAC, then load that instead.

http://www.ofpec.com/editors/resource_view.php?id=349

Get it there. ***

As to WHY its happening, its some sort of error converting the TGA to .paa, but if you do it yourself with texview, it will skip that stage out anyway

[Meathead]

I tried this already as well.
It gives no error like everything is fine but no texture shows up

[scousejedi]

Its been so long since I set up O2 I cannot remember exactly how to do it, I think your paths are wrong in FILE _> Options in O2

There is a detailed tutorial by Brsseb that will lead you very slowly with lots of pics through..

Setting up O2
Making a car
Making a boat
Making a building

http://www.ofp.info/brsseb

You should find all the answers there and welcome to O2

[Meathead]

WOO HOO! got it

had to change the path on the DLL setting in options
thx

OK NEXT problem LOL

I got the m16.paa to work that came with the tutorial but what about my own textures?
I use Photoshop 7 and I got a jpg I want to convert.
I tried changing it to gif and tga both then to paa with textview but neither end up showing in the o2 is there certain setting I got to save some where going from jpg to paa? Do I have to maint tain the 256x256 ratio etc etc? and if so how do I keep textures that arent even number ratios to not look warped?

[scousejedi]

OK you need powers of 2 (256 x 256)

If you are using photoshop then its dead easy....

Image -> Canvas Size and make the canvas bigger...

If your image is bigger than 256 x 256, you'll have to make the canvas 512 x 512...

note you can use 256 x 128 if you want to scale your current image down.