Tagra without background

Alucard · wrote on 5 Apr 2011, 11:20

No one? Ok, I got it to save as tga, but only shows up as a white box ingame. Hmmmmm….

cheeseontoast · wrote on 5 Apr 2011, 12:03

how many bits did you save it as?

Alucard · wrote on 5 Apr 2011, 23:34

32 bit. Here’s the targa if you like to see if you can get it to work in a txm file:

PolarBear · wrote on 6 Apr 2011, 15:59

Wait, what did you manage to do here? To create a dds file without a “background”?
Oh, and one more thing: What is so special in txms? Aren’t they just like mats?

Forsaken · wrote on 7 Apr 2011, 00:15

Easily fixed by alpha layers as Gisteron posted. Both TGA and DDS have this ability. Upload to any TXM, MAT, CMP using the applicable node type (MIP0 or MIPS).

PolarBear · wrote on 7 Apr 2011, 14:44

Wasn’t it Transferecy channal?
I’m just new to Photoshop, can someone explain it please?
Thanks.

Vesko · wrote on 7 Apr 2011, 16:10

PolarBear wrote:
Wasn’t it Transferecy channal?
I’m just new to Photoshop, can someone explain it please?
Thanks.

Alpha Channel generally just makes images transparent. This is especially apparent if you try to erase the background of an image without adding an alpha channel first, as it just becomes white.

PolarBear · wrote on 7 Apr 2011, 16:19

So to make the picture without background, what do I need to set the Alpha channal to?

Gisteron · wrote on 8 Apr 2011, 11:31

imagine the alpha channel to be a channel like the red, green and blue channels. the darker an area is in the alpha map, the more transparent it appears in the end. a white alpha pixel would make the texture appear completely opacitive at that very pixel and black completely transparent. in photoshop the alpha map is called “mask”.

PolarBear · wrote on 8 Apr 2011, 11:38

So what I need to do is to delete the background through the RGB? (I mean in every color layer)

Gisteron · wrote on 8 Apr 2011, 11:57

no. what you need to do is to draw a mask over your image. the places on the mask, where you want your image to be more transparent, shall be darker. if i recall right there is an option to turn the resulting mask to a fourth channel, the alpha channel. somehow this way i was designing my first entirely custom front_freelancerlogo.tga as seen in the main menu.

PolarBear · wrote on 8 Apr 2011, 13:59

I made the mask in a 4th channal, but it didn’t work. I downloaded those pictures you did and compared: your ones have no background displayed in Milkshape, but my has. What tool should I use to make it darker? The regular brush?

Forsaken · wrote on 8 Apr 2011, 18:05

Google on how to make an alpha layer. There is tons of help out there on the net for non-FL specific topics such as this.