Unit graphix problem...plz help!

Dragon Master · Post by **Dragon Master** » February 11th, 2006, 1:07 am

Hi, im new to making my own units and ive recently made some graphics. But when i play them in game, the unit appears with a white or black backround. can anyone tell me how i fix this?
thanks

Steelclad Brian · Post by **Steelclad Brian** » February 11th, 2006, 1:24 am

Dragon Master wrote:Hi, im new to making my own units and ive recently made some graphics. But when i play them in game, the unit appears with a white or black backround. can anyone tell me how i fix this?
thanks

You need to change the image's alpha channel so that the background is transparent. How you do that would differ from program to program, but you should be able to find out how to set transparency in the program's manual.

Dragon Master · Post by **Dragon Master** » February 11th, 2006, 1:55 am

thnx for the help. ill keep that in mind for the future

Dragon Master · Post by **Dragon Master** » February 11th, 2006, 2:44 am

oh, wait. damn this munual doesn't help at all. could sum1 please tell me how i make the backround transparent in paint?

scott · Post by **scott** » February 11th, 2006, 2:52 am

Dragon Master wrote:sum1

Please, write "someone."

Paint cannot create images with transparency. Try searching for the GIMP. It's a lot more complex than Paint, but it's free and can do what you want it to do.

You should be able to create a new image that's 72x72 with a transparent background (check in advanced options in the new image dialog box). Then you can open the current image, cut the part you want, and paste it into the new image.

There's also a way to add the transparency (an alpha channel) to the current image. I think the option is under Layer > Mask, but I'm not sure. Once you add the alpha channel, select all the white background with the magic wand (threshold set to 0), then cut it.

-> What i might be working on · Post by **Eleazar** » February 11th, 2006, 2:53 am

Dragon Master wrote:oh, wait. damn this munual doesn't help at all. could sum1 please tell me how i make the backround transparent in paint?

IIRC it's not possible in paint.
See our tutorials and information about sprite art.

romnajin · Post by **romnajin** » February 11th, 2006, 5:15 am

Or you could just post your images, and if someone with a more complicated art program thinks it would be worth their time to add the transparency, they can do it for you.

Dragon Master · Post by **Dragon Master** » February 11th, 2006, 1:26 pm

thanks everybody. your comments have really helped

methinks · Post by **methinks** » February 11th, 2006, 9:46 pm

Hi pals. I think GraphicsGale which has its freeware version can set transparency. It's fairly basic comapring to Gimp too.

Check it out:

http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/

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