I am currently in the process of making a map, and its about 90% done. It's a map I am making privately for a clan. I'm a well experienced mapper, but I have no clue about overviews. Here's what I did (following the tut at www.dodmappers.com):

Started game with -dev -map (the map name) and had sv_cheats 1, dev_overview 1, and hud_draw 0. I took the screenshot, wrote down the numbers that were in console, and exited the game. I put the .bmp in the overviews folder, and the txt. When I went in game, it says either something along the lines of "Error parsing overview file", and something like "Wrong overview image demensions". Heres the .txt:

// overview description file for dod_28th_drill_beta.bsp
//

global
{
ZOOM 1.84
ORIGIN -1106.20, -2226.32, 240.00
ROTATED 0
}

layer
{
IMAGE "overviews/dod_28th_drill_beta.bmp"
HEIGHT -65.00
}



thanks for your help.

[edit] awww, i just realised i posted this in the wrong forum. I didn't see the tutorial/q&a subsection. SO SORRY :eek:

Is it 1024x768?

Yes.

is it 256 colour? .bmp or .tga? and is it correctly referenced in the .txt?

if it isnt 1024X768 and 256, 8 bit color it will not work also your height is normally your Z max