I'm having difficulty making a texture with any amount of transparency to it. I've tried making a tattoo only to come up with a white tat on a black shirt or black tat on a white shirt. I've tried making the alpha channel black, white, and leaving it as is and still nothing.
Any help would be great,
Thank you
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Stauf Arbuckle
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01-28-2003 11:00
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Shebang Sunshine
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01-28-2003 11:22
which graphics program do you use? specific details are easier to give when the program is known.
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Stauf Arbuckle
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01-28-2003 13:38
I use Photoshop 7.0
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bUTTONpUSHER Jones
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01-28-2003 23:26
the alpha channel should be white where the tatoo is and black everywhere else. then save as 32-bit tga.
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Wednesday Grimm
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01-29-2003 07:50
WinGimp makes texture creation with alpha bits pretty easy, and as an added bonus, it's free.
http://www.wingimp.org/ Being free, it's a bit tricky to install, but it's worth it. |
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Stauf Arbuckle
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01-29-2003 09:48
Thank s for all the help. Sure appreciate it.
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Shebang Sunshine
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24 bit works too
01-29-2003 10:52
Paint Shop Pro only goes as high as 24 bit, but my alpha-channeled TGA's are properly transparent in the game.
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Xenon Linden
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update Photoshop 7.0 to 7.0.1 to fix transparency problem with .tga files
01-29-2003 14:54
Adobe changed the way Photoshop 7.0 handles the alpha/transparency channel for .tga files, then changed it back for v. 7.0.1. Updating your version of PS will probably fix your difficulties. Go here for the free upgrade:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/2c21a.htm -Xenon |
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Stauf Arbuckle
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01-30-2003 06:22
Oh thats a biggie!, thank you very much. That should do the trick.
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bUTTONpUSHER Jones
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Alpha channels in Photoshop 6
02-16-2003 16:59
taking a hint from Steller and Shebang, i whipped up a tutorial for making Alpha textures in Photoshop 6. it should be similar for Photoshop 5 and 7. just download and unzip it into a new folder.
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Shebang Sunshine
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02-16-2003 22:29
bp, may I post this next to the PSP tutorial?
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bUTTONpUSHER Jones
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02-17-2003 02:42
that would be great, Shebang. thanks!
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Skippy Powers
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02-18-2003 09:22
I would like to point out that GIMP is really easy to use. And its free.
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Wednesday Grimm
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02-18-2003 09:49
Originally posted by Skippy Powers I would like to point out that GIMP is really easy to use. And its free. Man, I wish I'd said that. |
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Shebang Sunshine
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gimp tutorial, anyone?
02-18-2003 10:07
Any of y'all who use the gimp, would you be willing to create a step by step tutorial (with screencaps!) for it? I'd like to place it next to the PS and PSP tutorials -- the author (or authors, if a collaberation) would receive full credit on its page.
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Billie Sunchaser
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Tutorials?
02-22-2003 13:48
Where are these tutotials you all are talking about?
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Shebang Sunshine
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02-22-2003 15:55
Using PhotoShop 6, written by bUTTONpUSHER Jones: http://66.137.11.217/howto/ps6/alpha.html
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Billie Sunchaser
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02-22-2003 23:42
thanks! I'll be checking them out!
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