TGA not behaving
Saturday, April 3, 2004 by DarkMist | Discussion: Skinning
On certain items in SkinStudio that are .tga's they show up as white not transparent mainly the start button and program arrow...anyone had this problem and know a solution??
PixelPirate
Reply #3 Sunday, April 4, 2004 1:02 PM
Reply #3 Sunday, April 4, 2004 1:02 PM
Maybe it's because you have an image with several frames and the first one happens to completely white, I think SS shows the first frame of an image...? Also make sure you have your alpha channels set up correctly, that could be another place to look.
DarkMist
Reply #4 Sunday, April 4, 2004 1:21 PM
Reply #4 Sunday, April 4, 2004 1:21 PM
each frame is transperent, i even made the first frams an empty transparent to see if that fixed it, as for alpha channels i've no idea what they should be in photoshop cs, I don't look at stuff while its working the way i want 
Thanks tho i'll check it out
Thanks tho i'll check it out
PixelPirate
Reply #5 Sunday, April 4, 2004 1:37 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, April 4, 2004 1:37 PM
A TGA file can only be transparent if it contains an alpha channel. Once you have your shape in a layer, hold ctrl and click the layer (ctrl+shift if the shape consists of several layers), then go to channels and make a new one. A channel called aplha channel (or something like that) should appear, it's completely black, just fill your s election with white. The white fill is the magic key, since ít defines which part of the TGA is visible. All the black is the transparent areas. You could even give it a bit of gaussian blur to smooth the edges further (about 0,3 px). I guess it's a multi-frame image, so make a rectangular selction over the first frame in the aplha channel, click the move tool, hold down alt+shift and drag a copy of the selction to the right. Repeat this until your alpha channel is filled. Then save the file as TGA. You can't have a transparent background in a TGA the same way as a PNG, you have to use alpha channels.
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NightTrainthedark
Reply #7 Monday, April 19, 2004 4:29 PM
Reply #7 Monday, April 19, 2004 4:29 PM
Captain, Assuming I understand the prob you are having, I have had some success by deleting the original attribute and then importing a new image. 
DarkMist
Reply #8 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:57 AM
Reply #8 Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:57 AM
All i was missing was the alpha channel I always forget about the channels, but yeah NTrain that works a treat too and ummm thanks Meow 
i assume you got mixed up
I always forget about the channels, but yeah NTrain that works a treat too and ummm thanks Meow 
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Reply #1 Saturday, April 3, 2004 5:02 PM