Path of Spiritwalker?

[Ramza]

I imported a skin I made myself (my first one), but I can't make it apply to the model.

I tried both ''units\orc\spiritwalker\spiritwalker'' and ''TaurenSpiritWalker.blp''.

 

[Pharaoh_]

It's "Units\Orc\SpiritWalker\TaurenSpiritWalker.blp".

 

[Ramza]

Hmm, I changed the path, but now each time I try to open my campaign, I get an error (luckily I made a backup).

Do you know what could cause this?
All I did was change some colors, saved as TGA, converted with WCIIIViever, and imported.

Edit: WE gets an error when I open a map of the campaign in which I placed Spiritwalkers. Not when I open the campaign itself.

 

[Pharaoh_]

If you used either an overlay filter or recolored the whole skin, you must have messed up the Alpha channel of the skin, resulting a crash.

 

[Ramza]

Well, I recolored most of the skin (light blue to orange and red).

I don't know ANYthing about skinning though. I've never even heard of Alpha channels before...
Maybe I should check out a tutorial.

But +rep once I spread some around.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Yeah, if you recolor the whole skin, you will notice that, in the black areas of the skin (the ones that will be used for team color = alpha channel), there is a loss of quality, with many blurry pixels smudging the area up. Most of the times, this skin will result a crash in the map.

P.S.: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/2d-art-tutorials-281/alpha-skinning-6527/

 

[Ramza]

Ahh, so I just got to make sure I don't accidentally mess up the alpha channel (or just edit the channel, but I don't have Photoshop).