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Russ Allen
scripter
Join date: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 22
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06-04-2007 06:51
Hi,
I wanted to make some glass with text on it so I open GIMP wrote the text uploaded the picture made a transparent prim and added the texture but my texture becomes also transparent and its hard to see what it says.
HELP?
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Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
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06-04-2007 06:56
From: Russ Allen Hi,
I wanted to make some glass with text on it so I open GIMP wrote the text uploaded the picture made a transparent prim and added the texture but my texture becomes also transparent and its hard to see what it says.
HELP? Read the sticky topic at the start of the Texture Tips forum on how to use trasparency. You need to use alpha channels and save as 32-bit tga files, and not use the transparency setting for the whole prim.
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Shroom Rich
Registered User
Join date: 19 Apr 2006
Posts: 12
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06-04-2007 07:03
You have to use alpha transparency.
To do this, u need to open a new file in gimp..say 500 x 500
Make sure the background is transparent/grey checkers.
Then, do what ever u were doing with text.
Now, click file/save as. then choose Targa .tga
if it asks to export click ignore, and then another window will pop up, and it will have 2
tabs, make sure to uncheck RLE compression. then walla..it works
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