Alpha Channel Class in World with Robin Sojourner

Hi everyone!

Just thought I'd mention that I'm teaching a class about Alpha Channels at 6 SL time in world, behind my Texture Tutorials. Sorry about the late notice, but I'm still running a day late and a dollar short, as my dad used to say.

Anyway, if you are interested, I'm going to be talking about what an Alpha Channel is, how to make them, what to do about White Halos, and why you might want to learn to use a real Alpha Channel, instead of just using .png.

The class is free, of course.

I'll also be doing it next week, for people who can't come this week.

It's in the Lecture Area, behind the Texture Tutorials, Livingtree (120, 70, 25).

That's the Lecture Area if you can click on things from these forums.

See you there!

but would love to attend and help contribute; i'll see if i can. if i can't, BUMPITY BUMP-BUMP ;0

Hi Robin,

Does that mean it will be on Wednesday at 6 sl time next week?

I am sorry I missed it because TGA alpha is one thing I have really not able to figure out.
I done one simple alpha before but the more complex images I work on I don't get it.

Hi Infiniview and FD! Yep, the class will be repeated next Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 6 PM SL time. If you can't make that one, there'll be a final instance of this course on Wed, Oct. 29 at 6 SL time, and then I'm going to do Very Basic Clothing 101 for a month.

There won't be any classes in December, for obvious reasons, but I plan to resume in January, probably with things like Seamless Textures and Advanced Alphas.

The Plan is to have one course that runs every Wednesday evening for a month, and then that one will go into a book in the Texture Library, and I'll do a different one. I may repeat them a year later, or I might not. Depends on lots of things.

Nyoko, (and anyone else who thought this was a discussion) I'm not really looking for "contributors." I'm sorry. This is a course that I've developed and timed pretty carefully. We go through a lot of material, and the format is lecture (by me) with frequent times for questions (from anyone who has one) and answers (from me.)

There is time for discussion after the class is over; but if we're going to get through the material in the one hour time span that I've scheduled, we can't wander off into other topics while class is going on. So we don't.

If you'd rather have a discussion about topics in general, or if you'd like to teach a course yourself, contact me.

I set the area up for lectures/classes/discussions, and I'd be happy to help anyone else who would like to hold lectures/courses there to do so.

I also really wish that I could have one set early enough in the day for people who weren't in the US, but the sad fact is that I'm still not quite up to normal operating speed yet (although I'm gaining ground all the time) and I can't manage that.