Hubukai Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 If anyone can help tonight, I would appreciate it!... I am not to familiar with decaling and alpha channels or decal transparency. Basically i am trying to decal portions of a ship i am working on. the decals i have are colored with black around the edges. I would like to apply the decal to the model and then change the image so the black portion becomes transparent leaving the color portion of the decal. I am attaching the cample images i have along with a screen cap of the decal i am trying to apply. I need help to get this worked on tonight fo the AM meeting in philly tomorrow. [attachmentid=14532] here is one of the decals i am trying to apply. [attachmentid=14533] If someone could assist with a description on how to do this i would greatly appreciate it. Quote
luckbat Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 No prob. What you really want to end up with is a flat green TGA with an (invisible) alpha channel that defines the letters. Your software needs to be able to output 32-bit (not 24-bit) TGAs. Are you using Photoshop? When you're done, you should end up with a file like this one: decal_w_alpha.tga.zip Quote
Hubukai Posted February 18, 2006 Author Posted February 18, 2006 THANKYOU!!! Now i get it... yes, i am using photoshop... i just have to grab my JPG files and add the aplha channel to it and save as a TGA with alpha... Duh... Many thinks... No prob. What you really want to end up with is a flat green TGA with an (invisible) alpha channel that defines the letters. Your software needs to be able to output 32-bit (not 24-bit) TGAs. Are you using Photoshop? When you're done, you should end up with a file like this one: Quote
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