First I made a bitmap. But when I convert it to a mat it has purple and dark puple everywhere in the preview in matmaster. Please help.

that means that is doesnt work with the dflt.cmp or whatever cmp you are using in matmaster, try changing the cmp.

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It just has white and gray. I just don't get it. I mean, well, I thought basic colors like white and gray would work. My mat only uses white and gray.

it doesn't seem to work with any of the LEC colormaps... What should I do?

You need to look more closely at the colormaps. You need to make your mat with those same colors.

The other option is to go to 16 bit mats. To do that you will need the program Mat16. The downside is you have to have a 3d video card for them to work properly.

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What program should I use to look at the colormaps?

In massassi's download section you can find the colormaps converted to psp .pal files. You can also use Wally to look at them.

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GabrielBlumenthal (man that's a long name...), what program are you using to make the mats? If you're using MS Paint, I would highly reccomend that you go download the demo of Paint Shop Pro. (It's kind of large, but just connect to the internet and start the download before you go to bed, then it will be done by morning.) Now, download the .pal files MikeC was talking about. Now, open up the bitmap with PSP, and click on the (I believe) colors menu on the title bar. Go down to load pallete option (if that's not the right spot, then just skim around until you find it), and load whatever .pal file that corresponds with the colormap you're using. PSP will automatically choose the closest fit for any colors that aren't in the pallette file. Now, you just save the image, and then use MatMaster to convert it to a mat.

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How do I tell if they match up or not? Do have a certain number or something?
ie., 0-256

Pretty much.

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Thanks you guys. MATs have always been kinda confusing to me.

Forget 16bit mats and forget PSP.

You do realise that Matmaster will remap colourmaps dont you? You can use MS Paint to make a texture then just get Matmaster to remap it to the JK CMP you want using the closest possible colours. Use the "Batch conversion" option and remember you have to import the textures as Bitmaps, Matmaster wont remap a mat file to another mat file.