[General] How do i add teamcolor instead of deleting texture part

[Null]

Im a novice in making skins. How do I add teamcolor to a portion of the unit, cause sometimes it just straight unt delets that part of the texture

 

[Chaosium]

Your texture must be in a format like .tga (before converting to .blp) that supports alpha channels, otherwise it just appears black with .png or .jpg for instance

 

[Null]

how do i introduce an alhpa channel

 

[Chaosium]

That depends on the software you use to create your textures I suppose

 

[Null]

tell me what software should i use

 

[Chaosium]

Well that's up to you, personally I use GIMP because it's relatively powerful and also free to use, and you can add alpha channels with it

 

[Null]

Where can i find it?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Where can i find it?

GIMP

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor

www.gimp.org

 

[Null]

Every time i transform a png into a tga, it loses all transparency and alpha channels. why?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Every time i transform a png into a tga, it loses all transparency and alpha channels. why?

Possibly how the encoder is set. When saving/exporting a file there should be a button to set the various encoder properties. This can include if alpha is saved, the precision of alpha or pallet colours, e.t.c.

 

[Null]

Someone please make this work cause i couldn't find any issues stated by dr super good

 

[Dr Super Good]

Here you go. Done using GIMP. Just worked for TGA conversion...

Note that the section around the lower left area of the texture has an opaque chequered pattern. The parts with actual alpha work as expected.