NASCAR Paintkit

Please help... I am having trouble importing a paintjob from Windows 95 Paint program. From Paintkit (working with cars96 -car set), I exported my car, NASC94.PCX and exited Paintkit. The file appears as NASC94.PCX in my C:\NASCAR directory. I then go into Win95's Paint program and load NASC94.PCX and redo the paintjob and then save it as C:\NASCAR\NASC94.PCX. When I go back to Paintkit and try to import the new paintjob, nothing happens. The original paintjob remains. From web sources, I have understood that one can use the Windows95 Paint program to modify the pcx file. What gives? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've also understood, that NASC94.PCX is my car in the game. Is this true even when using the new car set, cars96 ? --Andy Houghton

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> Please help... > I am having trouble importing a paintjob from Windows 95 > Paint program. From Paintkit (working with cars96 -car set), > I exported my car, NASC94.PCX and exited Paintkit. The file > appears as NASC94.PCX in my C:\NASCAR directory. I then go into > Win95's Paint program and load NASC94.PCX and redo the paintjob > and then save it as C:\NASCAR\NASC94.PCX. When I go back to Paintkit > and try to import the new paintjob, nothing happens. The original > paintjob remains. > From web sources, I have understood that one can use the Windows95 > Paint program to modify the pcx file. What gives? Any help would > be greatly appreciated. > I've also understood, that NASC94.PCX is my car in the game. Is this > true even when using the new car set, cars96 ? > --Andy Houghton

Lastnight, I downloaded LVIEWPRO, saved my Win95 NASC94.bmp as NASC94.pcx, and imported new car! It works! Thanks to all that helped via Email. --Andy Houghton

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> > From web sources, I have understood that one can use the Windows95 > > Paint program to modify the pcx file. What gives? Any help would > > be greatly appreciated. > > I've also understood, that NASC94.PCX is my car in the game. Is this > > true even when using the new car set, cars96 ? > Yes the filename remains nasc94.pcx for whatever carset you decide to > use. If I'm not mistaken, the Win95 paint program only allows you to > save files as bmp's, not as pcx's. Since the extensions of registered > file types are by default hidden, you don't see the .bmp extension. I > believe you actually have a file called: nasc94.pcx.bmp. To test my > theory out, right-click on the nasc94 file and select 'properties'. It > will tell you the file type. > -- > Eric T. Busch > Emory University

Yes, you were correct. I used LView to save my Win95 .bmp file as nasc94.pcx. Works great ! --Andy Houghton