alpha help... ALMOST GOT THIS!

[RaD-]

i was playin around making a gandalf the white hero... and i wanted to remove that piece of robe behind his head (on archmage) i got it so that when i painted in black it didnt really paint in black... it made little black squares :shock: im surprised because its like that on alpha'd parts!!! theres 1 thing wrong... when i save it says: "Because of the limitations of the specified format, and possibly the save options, blah blah it will be saved as a merged image..." what do i save it as? how do u save alpha channel?

 

[Sopho]

Save it as the highest available bit .tga uncompressed. Ignore the message, as long as you overwrited the alpha channel 1 of the skin, it should be fine.

 

[orcfan32]

This is eally simple, really. Skin your unit and give it a name. (Your .blp image) Extract the model, convert it to a .mdl, edit it with Vertex Modeify, a tool by Oitherwinkle or something like that. Delete what you don't want, change it's skin file to whatever yours is. Convert it back to a .mdx file, import the model and skin into your map, save and exit, load it back up, and you should be done.

 

[Sopho]

Its easier to use image editing program to alpha out a part of a unit. Its also more common to do that, but that method may still be used.