Transparent TGAs not displaying correctly

[Storyyeller]

I thought that I could remove the awful edge artifacts in my loadscreen and reduce the map size by splitting it into two seperate textures: one for the sky, and a transparent one for the foreground.
However, it won't show up correctly. No matter what I try, it always has a weird border at the edges. I tried flattening it, but that didn't help either.

Anyway, here are the background and foreground images I am using (zoomed in), and how it is supposed to look.

And here is how it actually looks

What am I doing wrong? How can I fix it?

 

[Kuhneghetz]

If you look at the pic with the checker background, you'll notice that there are still some grey edges on the pyramids.
This can be fixed by using an eraser brush and erase those edges, via Photoshop or GIMP or Paint.net.

 

[Storyyeller]

There are no gray edges on the pyramid. The edges are light blue.

The first time, I tried it with no edges, but I thought that semi transparency might be the problem, so I semiflattened it to a single bit alpha channel. But that didn't work either.

Anyway, the pictures I posted were of the flattened version. I can post the first set of pictures too if you think it would help.

 

[Sabelion]

Umm,Dan van Ohlus is right, on the second picture u can see a small small gray line between the blue and the transparent.

So, if u just erase a little more of the blue a to get a little bit closer to the pyramid u will probably erase the gray line between.

 

[Storyyeller]

Ok here's what it looked like without the blue border. The mysterious gray line is still there.

 

[ShrEad-ER]

instead of using the eraser tool try using the laso tool and mark every thing that should be delete and then press delete... i think it should work (but im not sure )
this way you get it without some semi transparent colors that can be the reason to those ugly edges

 

[Storyyeller]

What are you talking about?

I didn't use eraser tool or the lasso tool, or for that matter, transparent colors.

 

[Sabelion]

They r telling you TO USE it not that you have USED it

 

[ShrEad-ER]

What are you talking about?

I didn't use eraser tool or the lasso tool, or for that matter, transparent colors.

Then try use the lasso tool
use it because transperent colors with the brush tool does leave semi-transparent colors aswell as the eraser does too
The lasso tool cuts it of right where it's supposed to
Eraser/Brush/Brush with transparent color
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Lasso Tool
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[Storyyeller]

I already made sure that there were no semi-transparent colors.

 

[ShrEad-ER]

I already made sure that there were no semi-transparent colors.

Then, i am sorry to say that i cannot help you any longer, as my wisdom only goes this far...

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Maybe the issue has to do with the material layer (the one that uses the pyramids) in the loadingscreen model and not the texture itself.
Try experiment with it by changing modes to transparent or blend or something.

I dunno. If that doesn't help, I can't help you any further.

 

[Storyyeller]

I think I used Blend.
What other modes are possible?

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Transparent, additive, add alpha.
But I'm not sure if you'll get any good results though.