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sniper297 (88 posts)
Aug-02-01, 10:16 AM (EST) "TGA vs PSD alpha channels" LAST EDITED ON Aug-02-01 AT 10:22 AM (EST)Thought I better post this in another thread so it don't get lost. I used to hack the cockpits in FS98 and 2000, and CFS1, with corel paint 4.0 (I know it's ancient, but I paid cash money for it). When I first tried to skin a GP38 using the sample TGA, I lost the transparencies and got opaque brown windows. I assumed (naturally) that corel4 was too ancient to handle the alpha channel, and it didn't even know what a PSD file was. So then I got a new scanner bundled with Ulead photo express 2.0, and it gave me opaque windows too. After doing a keyword search on this site I figured the the ulead wasn't any good either, but then I discovered Ulead would open the PSD for the sw1200. MakeAce wouldn't convert the psd (BSOD) so I saved it as TGA (at this point I was just fooling with color schemes, thinking someday I'll get a graphics program that actually lets me do this for real) and lo and behold, I had windows! Opened up corel4, opened up the tga (converted by Ulead from the PSD. Why? Ulead is one of those anemic things with limited tools, and corel does what I want it to do.), and found that corel4 is perfectly happy to save the alpha from this one. Am I losing it when I open it, or are my originals corrupted somehow?
Note transparent windows on sw1200. I tried pasting sw windows on geep, flood fill using pick tool, replace colors, etc., so now I get black windows on the geep instead of brown.
I guess what I'm really asking, is there a "new" version of the alpha? Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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