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Transparency, PNG, and Photoshop CS a disaster

by Francisco Morales · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 03/22/2007 (9:07 pm) · 3 replies

It would seem no matter what pngs will not work in windows. I have opened the player.png file and no matter what there is no skin texture they just are not there.

This leads me to my current problem with making pngs in photoshop. No matter how I import them into maya and subsequently to show pro tool, the object is 50% transparent even on a completely opaque png with no alpha channel.

I have tried everything from the png plug-in mentioned in other posts, to exporting for web, nothing works.

Also can I not open a png, thats supposed to be set up properly, and even that does not work.

I am lost in transparency world, I could just skip it and remodel the object, but eventually I am going to hit this problem again.
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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#1
03/22/2007 (10:19 pm)
So, if you open a PNG file in Photoshop, it's a blank image? That's what it sounds like with the "not there" comment. I've never seen that. Try running OptiPNG on the PNG to see if the header got munged. It's often a culprit, but doesn't explain why every PNG is screwed up with Photoshop and Maya when you are using them. Do you have an example that works/doesn't work so that we can see it? Perhaps a screenshot in Photoshop of your layers/channels/etc setup?

Torque Owner Francisco Morales
#2
03/22/2007 (11:45 pm)
Well, I fixed the photoshop side, I think, I did a reinstall of the SuperPing plugin and now I can open the player.png and have the skin and everything show, which it was not previously. Thats what I refered to as not there as the skin was not there previosly. As for the maya issue, it still fades the object 50% once a png is set in the color section. When I add the png to the color section in maya, it maps both the color and the translucence channels with the png. The file is set up with the alpha channel having the piece, in this case glass, to be semi-transparent, all other areas are black. The model itself is a capsule with a glass center with a piece of rock in the center. I can send you the files if you want as that would probably be more helpful than pictures.

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#3
03/23/2007 (7:31 am)
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