i know how to make bitmaps but never learned how to make them with certian alpha channel. on some of my guns i made, you might see hwo they have ironsights instead of a scope, but the sights are black and have no color. im trying to fix that and i know how too. but when i made a bitmap, the alpha channels dont work.

will someone tell me how to make a bitmap with a correct alpha channel? when i make an alpha channel in photoshop, then use tool, the tag doesnt have the alpha channel.

need help cause im wanting to make a few more weapons and update some old baddly made ones and this will definatly be an improvement.

kingfish999


EDIT: figueres i spend a week on this and right after i finaly ask, i figuer it out.....
Edited by kingfish999 on Dec 24, 2008 at 05:06 PM

Well tell us what the problem was and how to fix it incase we have it.

after its compiled once, open the tag in guerilla, set to either Explicit alpha, Interpoler Alpha, 16 bit colors, or 32 bit colors. then recompile in tool.

sry i didnt know ppl posted in this thread. what i was doing was completly different then what i was suppose to do. i was making a channel in photoshop by coping the vieable bitmap, creating a channel and calling it Alpha 01 then pasting it and making it all white. thats how i saw it in a few tutorials but i guess that doesnt work with what im doing.

thats when i noticed that if i make the backgorund of the image transparent and making sure it the check box to save the transparancy is checked (thats my main problem) then it will work right.

also yeah like you said, set as explicit alpha then recompile with tool but i found that out instantly.