Photoshopping - Mods

[Ctennyson]

Hey again. This could become a regularly scheduled column.

When modding pretenders, everytime I add my own picture for one, I end up with a big black box around the pretender, rather than a regular background. Whats the trick to getting the regular colored background?

[Gateway103]

My guess is you need a specific colour for the background to act as the transparent in Dom2.

Unfortunately, I have not modded the pic in Dom2 ever, so I can't tell you the exact colour (many other games use bright neon Pink, but not sure about Dom2). Perhaps some of the graphics modders can tell you what the particular colour is.

EDIT: Just did a check, I think it is black... seemed kind of strange... Perhaps I am not thinking stragith at this sleepy hour...

-Gateway103

[ March 01, 2004, 07:41: Message edited by: Gateway103 ]

[Gandalf Parker]

Im not sure if this link to an older thread helps or not
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...=000917#000002

[Wauthan]

My only tip is to download a mod that adds units, like the Avatar of Ulm mod, and copy their use of colours.

[Davidious]

When modding pretenders, everytime I add my own picture for one, I end up with a big black box around the pretender, rather than a regular background. Whats the trick to getting the regular colored background?

ran into the same problem.

the background color must be black. like pure black, so if you cut and paste them out of the game they lose a little color and the black backgrounds sometimes need redone.

[Ctennyson]

This pure black thing doesnt seem accurate. I cut the image, added a layer, set background color to 0,0,0 which as far as I know, is pure black, set the image on top, on layer 1, and still a big black box. Well, you can see the image inside the big black box, also.

I have used a working pretender, that I also created, cut the pretender out, pasted the new dude in, and voila, still big black box. I am no photoshop expert, but it cant be this hard.

[ March 02, 2004, 00:24: Message edited by: Ctennyson ]

[Targa]

Are you saving as tga in 24 bit, or 32 bit with alpha layer? Save in 24 bit tga.

[Ctennyson]

I had been saving image in 32 bit, I just saved in 24 bit, still have the black box, but, according to my RGB, I dont have an alpha channel. Which I take from your post is how it is supposed to be?

I dunno, I always hated photoshop. Everything seems needlessly complicated. Other strange, possibly related things. I am using 255, 0, 255 for the shadow, which in PS looks like everyone elses shadow, then in the black box, its magenta, where as everything else is black.

I know its some simple little thing

I appreciate the replies, also. Thanks guys.

[ March 02, 2004, 01:23: Message edited by: Ctennyson ]

[Ctennyson]

Incredibly persistent, large amounts of testing shows that the poster I previously claimed was wrong, was, in fact, absolutely correct.

When pasting in the image, it brought very dark blacks, but not true blacks, into the picture, using selective color(absolute) to make all black true black totally fixed the problem. Thank you one and all, and hopefully if anyone else has this issue, this thread will straighten it right out.

[Davidious]

Originally posted by Ctennyson:
Incredibly persistent, large amounts of testing shows that the poster I previously claimed was wrong, was, in fact, absolutely correct.

glad it helped, sorry I wasn't more specific