Menu Background Turns Black
Friday, January 19, 2007 by JukEboXAuDiO | Discussion: Skinning
Greetings,
I am trying to skin the back of pull down menus and when I apply the skin it turns all the pull down menu black and the highlighted colors stay on the menu if I go over them. Here are the settings for Pull Down Background
Flat menus - disables skinning - DISABLED
Hide Shadows - DISABLED
Draw Method - STRETCH IMAGE
Simple Draw Method - INACTIVE - USE "DRAW METHOD"
Transparency and Translucency - TRANSPARENT
Transparency - Level - 255
Translucency - Switch - TRANSLUCENCY IS BEING USED
Transparency - Mode - ALL BAR IMAGES ARE BLENDED
Paint Edges Only - DISABLED
Can anyone Help me?
Reply #2 Monday, January 22, 2007 2:51 PM
If you want to use translucency, you'll need to use a .tga image with alpha-channel transparency (or import a .png with alpha-channel trans using SkinStudio & let SkinStudio do the conversion to .tga automatically*). If you're not using any transparency in the image, you can also change Transparency and Translucency to "opaque". If you are using magic pink transparency in a .bmp image, enable Transparency (in Transparency & Translucency) and disable Translucency in the Translucency switch.
Once you have the images & settings the way you want them, save the skin, then go to Explorer & delete from the skin's folder all the .wb4 files and any temporary files that have a tilde (~) in the file name. Then reload the skin. This often solves problems with getting transparency to display properly.
*Right-click on the image name in the Attribute (right) pane of SKS & you'll see a menu item "Import >"; click that and choose "Browse for file". Navigate to the .png & select it, accept the default in the next dialog assuming all image states are included in the .png, and SKS will convert it to .tga format for use in the skin.
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Reply #1 Friday, January 19, 2007 10:21 AM