Transparent texture when exported?

[HerrDave]

So, my friend Niktorn sent me a model with a skin (fancy that eh?)

For some reason, when it is on the model it looks fine, but when I export it, it becomes a near totally transparent mess. Behold the screenshots.

 

[Freddyk]

That's because your texture has an alpha channel.
Warcraft 3 uses alpha channel mainly for team color, or transparency. Looking at your screenshot though, i believe this texture comes from another game, and its alpha channel is for something like specular or bump which are not handled by Warcraft 3 anyway, so you can remove it.

I guess you opened it with gimp? As far as i know gimp can only handle the alpha channel as transparency, hence this result.
Maybe there is an option somewhere in gimp to remove the alpha channel of the layer, but i don't know this software well enough.

You could also try to open it with another software (photoshop should work), or try to export to another image format without alpha channel.

 

[Talavaj]

Export it into something that does not support alpha channel, like JPG or something that supports alpha channel correctly like TGA and delete the channel there.
PNG has great transparency support, but it handles alpha differently that is why it ended up like this.

 

[HerrDave]

Thanks, it worked! I'd give you two more credit, but I'd be arrested and executed for the distribution of so many rep points.