Problems with PS & Alpha layers *30/7/08

[Voyager16]

I had this with the Sovereign to.  Is there a way to fix this lightshow? ^^

[Jb06]

I said.... the alpha needs to be black and the white parts only parts like windows, engines etc.

[Voyager16]

Yes, but I'm new to all this so I have absolutley no idea what your talking about.. :oops:

[Jb06]

Just send it over msn n i'll fix it

~Jb06

[Voyager16]

yea well hope that worked, and still, I need to do it myself in future..

[Technerd89]

cant say i know how to help you with your glow problem, although it seems everyone else has that solution. however if you are having problems with GIMP, you might try http://www.getpaint.net/ i used it alot before i got Photoshop CS2 and it might suit your needs.

[Voyager16]

the point is, the Alpha channel doesnt work or somehting, I'll try later and hope that the program you suggested works...

[Voyager16]

I know resurrection, but it's my thread, and Im having a similair problem.

I ported a ship from Legacy To BC, works good, although the scaling needs work, for a Nebula class, it has the size of 2borg cubes, lol.

The point is, it glows ingame, I know it has to do with alpha layers etc.
but how does this work in PS?
I saved all the dds. files in to tga.
but its missing the Alpha..how do I add them?

[CptBenSisko]

You ported a ship from Legacy to BC? How did you acomplish this? Has an M3D importer been released for Legacy? If so where does one find said importer?

[Voyager16]

the creator of tha ship, exported the Milkshape file, I impoirted it and exported as .NIF.   

[Voyager16]

anyways, somebody knows how to save targa with alpha layers in PS?
Because my TGA files on the ported ship has no Alpha, its one big lightning ship.

[Jb06]

It probably does have an alpha channel, but it will be white. That's why its bright. Th AC needs to be black & white in places like windows, impulse engines etc. Just make sure when you save your file as a tga, thd show alpha channel is ticked below the filename.

~Jb06

[Voyager16]

It doesnt give me an option for "show Alpha channel" while saving to .tga.
The channel is white, so I've noticed, how do I get it right?

~Voy.

[lint]

http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/file/TGA_Tool_Editor;7162

Download the TGA Tool, it will makes things much easier for you.

[ACES_HIGH]

when you save it from .DDS to .TGA, Photoshop doesn't save the alpha, unfortunately, TGA tool does not work with .DDS but the same author has another program, designed for converting similar files in Flight Simulator that does work with .DDS and .TGA, it can be found here: http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/download/dxtbmpx.EXE.? You are going to have to open the file directly through this program, which you can use to directly export both the image and the alpha to whatever program you want, than reimport it and save it as one file; the same thing goes for TGAtool.

BTW. If Starforce is reading this, I get the impression that we might need a tutorial for using TGA tool properly.

[Voyager16]

Thanks Aces.
Much appreciated!