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PNG Nightmare

by Dewaldt · in General Discussion · 01/24/2010 (5:06 am) · 2 replies

Hi


Ok were to start, You see i want to make my PNG files Invisble layers, Cause as far as i know Torque Doesn't read White Background layers.

So it must be transparency, But i can't seem to make it like this, I use GIMP for this Application,
But can't seem to get it running through.

Cause i need to set my HUD & GUI files to torque! In all that applications inc menu buttons / Action buttons etc / all must be made into PNG Transparency layers! I did select Transparency tool, i Came so far to delete some White Background ... but when i finaly came close to the Button it get really hard to delete & trim it good. Any idea how i can make it transparacy without following this long road?

keep well

Best of Regards

Dewaldt Steenkmap
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Torque 3D Owner Ronny Bangsund
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#1
01/24/2010 (1:40 pm)
Use magic scissors to cut out the background. How this is done in each program differs, but I select mine in Acorn and click the white field. Then crawling ants appear around the white areas, I cut and what's left is the rest of the image and transparent sections where white used to be. Don't flatten the image, as GIMP tends to remove transparency then (wrongly, I say).

Dewaldt
#2
01/24/2010 (4:09 pm)
Hi Ronny

I did what you say & it works thanks for the help!

Best of Regards
Dewaldt Steenkmap