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TBP - Having trouble with my images

by Timothy Fuller · in Technical Issues · 07/26/2006 (9:20 am) · 2 replies

Hello everybody,

I have been working with some of the torque products for about two years now, and have recently started working with Torque Builder Pro. It seems like a great tool, it makes setting up and creating 2D scrolling games a breeze, but I am having a couple of fairly big problems. The first is when ever I add an image as a sprite into a project, the background color remains a part of the sprite. I have changed the background color to white, and pink but it still remains. The other problem is when I try to create a animation sprite of a image, TBP goes thru all the motions of creating it, but once I click the save button the animation sprite is not created. If any body could give me some help on this, their assistance would be greatly appreciated. Other then these two problems, TBP seems like are great development tool. You guys rock!

Timmay & the Lords of the Underworld

#1
08/10/2006 (7:38 am)
1) Is the Sprite transparent? One thing I learned is if you save a png with transparency in Photoshop with the "save as" command the transparency is lost. In order to perseve the transparency you must "save for web"
2) When you say 'go thru all the motions' does that entail a) making an image map, selecting it to be multiple frames then b) making an animation from the image map?
#2
08/10/2006 (10:02 am)
That's very strange, I don't lose transparency in PNGs from a Save As, but I do with GIFs.