I am trying to make some plants, but i can get the transparacy correct.

See attached picture.



I make the background black. rgb 0,0,0 but in the game engine you still see some black, but not in photoshop.

What am i doing wrong???



Please help



Gr

Harry

And this is what i get as i save in dds format.dxt1 4bpp no alpha.

I save my alpha textures as dxt5. For some reason dxt1 with alpha doesn't seem to work. Or save it as png and reloaded will automaticly make the dxt1 with alpha dds for you. Funny I can't get my own dxt1 to work tho. Quality isn't quite as good either. But still good.



Spot





Edit: Look like antialiasing problem in photoshop on the 1st picture. Is usually white for me tho. Anyway try contracting the alpha chanel by a pixel or two.

Have the same problem looks ok in 3d max import it to the game and its solid exported to another engine and its ok so im stumped with this one funny thing is glass works ok :/

If i export as dxt5 the plant turns white!!!





Gr

HarryWever can you upload it and ill see if i can fix it

the plant is white? As in no texture? Or is it just the background around it is white? on dxt5

No the plant turns white in the engine.

The background is transparant and oke

here is the plant in jpg

No clue what's wrong there



I don't use photoshop so can't really help you there.

One thing, I always start with a fully transparent background. Some softwares have issues with layers so merging or flattening can help sometimes. You can try inverting the alpha channel. I can't say without actually seeing it and testing.



Here is a simple plant you can check out to see if it may help you get it figured out.





Edit: missed the pic of the plant. If you are trying to make that image into a plant, select the black part and paste it into an alpha channel. Then expand or contract, don't remember, to make the area you "DO" want to see pixel or two smaller. Then invert the selection so you have the area you "Do" want to see selected. Then dump white into that selection. save it out as your dds. Then open it right back up to make sure that alpha channel is "Still" there. gimp sometimes forgets all about that channel on export. I hope you get it figured out. OR someone with way better explanation skills helps out

The problem is with the image it is very low quality i removed the black and you can see why you have got that in the test game also the size is a problem textures are better when they are multiple of four your image is 507x506 try and have textures 512x512 or above

Oke i will look into it.

Many thanks for the info TattieBojangle.



Gr

Harry

Harry,



Try the attached image.



.dds DTX1 with transparent background. 512x512 pixels.



Best I can do to help. No idea if it will be OK or will work for you.

Heres a jpeg showing it in PAINT.Net - don't use this in Reloaded of course its just a jepg showing what it should look like.

Thanks Uman,

This one works great.



See photo

Many thanks.



Gr

Youre bush looks great spotaru.



Nice work





Gr

Hi Harry,



Yes that looks better

Nice job Uman i didn't have the time to do it

Thanks Uman. I didn't have time to demonstrate it either.



@TattieBojangle

Yes that pic is far too low in quality and resolution to get good results.



@Harry



Thanks. Not sure that one is really mine. I think it was just a pic I downloaded. If so, I don't remember where to even go to check on license so don't use it, just learn from it. And sorry I couldn't be of more help.

HI,



This one is with a higher resolution.

It looks nice now.

I started with a transparant background, and after removing the background i save it as a png file.



Thanks for all the help.



Gr

Very cool Harry ! good work

Much better