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Png Primer

by Stephen Hagyard · in Torque Game Engine · 09/01/2004 (3:16 pm) · 1 replies

Hi,

Can anyboody point me to a basic primer on how to create PNG graphics that can be used for the menu? I have photoshop and just want to be able to create menu graphics from scratch for the various gui types.

Thanks in advance - Stephen Hagyard.
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Torque Owner Alex Swanson
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09/03/2004 (10:03 am)
Stephen, unfortunately Photoshop's default PNG implementation is sort of screwed up when it comes to transparency. A free plugin is available to fix this problem, however. After that, it is as simple as saving to PNG, either through "save as..." or "save for web..."

Remember that when specifying the image, you do not need to include the extension (soi just "button" for a file called button.png"). Of course this also means you don't ever want 2 images with the same name but different extension to be in the same directory (eg. "button.jpg")