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BC Forums => BC General => Topic started by: King Class Scout on November 11, 2009, 09:40:34 PM

Title: Tactical Icons
Post by: King Class Scout on November 11, 2009, 09:40:34 PM

I'm all ready (finally) for my next release swarm...and now I got a problem.

I've forgotten how to do tac icons!

I've already gotten the ships positioned and ready...but, oddly, i can't figure out why I can't get the silly thing to give me a transparent ground.  what am I missing, here?

Title: Re: Tactical Icons
Post by: Kirk on November 11, 2009, 10:53:29 PM

An alpha channel. It defines the transparency.

Title: Re: Tactical Icons
Post by: Vladko1 on November 12, 2009, 03:00:53 AM

Alpha channel maybe in this case give the transparency. But in some cases the transpirancy is given by the black colour in the image (like in warpflashes textures). Try both variants. First, try with the black colour (black will be that you won't to be seen). Alpha channel (white is that you want to be seen of the image).
Sorry for my bad English. I am very bad in explaining things.  :(

Title: Re: Tactical Icons
Post by: Kirk on November 12, 2009, 05:21:13 AM

It's an alpha channel, trust me.

Title: Re: Tactical Icons
Post by: King Class Scout on November 12, 2009, 08:26:23 AM

I did it the first time with the Tac Icon for the Gabriel without resorting to using an Alpha channel, and it's killing me because I forgot how the bleep I did it!  the last time I left the black alone, it came out terrible.

Vladko: i'm used to working around bad english when it's written down.  believe me, the smartest people in the world, Asians, STILL can't get it right sometimes.  heck, I'm still surprised a lot of people actually KNOW enough English to get by.

Title: Re: Tactical Icons
Post by: Dalek on November 12, 2009, 11:00:16 AM

Honestly, it's in the alpha.