tFighterPilot Posted December 8, 2003 Posted December 8, 2003 It wasn't very hard for me to make those pictures for my snow speeder. First of all, I took the picture I used in the top view when modeling the snow speeder. Then, I copied all the black parts to a new file with transparent background. Then I done some other stuff, and some other stuff...
Aaron Smith Posted December 9, 2003 Author Posted December 9, 2003 Ok I must be dumber than a box of rocks cuz I can't get it to work. I drew the ship parts in white made sure there was no background saved as TGAs and when I get it ingame I no longer have the big green square the background shows up transparent like it should but there is no ship in the circle it's just blank. Do I need to add a layer mask or something?
RaSiN_HeCk Posted December 9, 2003 Posted December 9, 2003 yeah , my problem was Paint Shop merged the layers so the transparent turned white
Aaron Smith Posted December 9, 2003 Author Posted December 9, 2003 Ok so do I need to save as TGA without flatening? Because my Photoshop won't let me do that.
Manquesa Posted December 9, 2003 Posted December 9, 2003 I highly recomend you look at the ones already in the game for other vehicle as reference. Or at least look at the ones in my Awing.pk3 or tfighterpilots snowspeeder or any other custom made vehicle for that matter. It really helps to see what one looks like to compare to what you've got. I really don't know how else to explain it. I am busy with a lot of projects right now, but if you're still really stumped on this, send me your .tga's and i'll take a look at em and tell you what's wrong. My email
Aaron Smith Posted December 9, 2003 Author Posted December 9, 2003 I've looked at every TGA for every HUD, both those that came with JA and also those from other released vehicle models. With the version of Photoshop that I have anyway, they all look like blank white squares.
Andy867 Posted December 9, 2003 Posted December 9, 2003 try looking at the Alpha Channel Layers, like through Photoshop and see if they are there. Thats how the TGA from the intro crawler is made, plus certain shaders use the alpha channel. also, when saving TGAs for JA, I believe you need to save them as 32-bit instead of 24 or 16, or they wont show up properly in JA.
Aaron Smith Posted December 10, 2003 Author Posted December 10, 2003 Ok after messing with it for a couple hours last night I give up. My old photoshop doesn't seem to have that alpha channel option, so if anyone would like to take the time to do the HUDs for this it would be most apreciated. If you are interested E-mail me or something. If no one cares to take the time to do this, by lets say sunday I will go ahead and release as is. my E-mail is jediknightmas@hotmail.com
Zymotico Posted December 10, 2003 Posted December 10, 2003 In Photoshop, in the channels tab (next to the layers tab), at the bottom, click the 3rd button from the right. This will create a new channel, #4. This is the alpha channel.
Aaron Smith Posted December 10, 2003 Author Posted December 10, 2003 Unfortunetly I am working with an old (OLD) version of Photoshop that doesn't have a channels option.
tFighterPilot Posted December 10, 2003 Posted December 10, 2003 Originally posted by Aaron Smith I've looked at every TGA for every HUD, both those that came with JA and also those from other released vehicle models. With the version of Photoshop that I have anyway, they all look like blank white squares. That's because they are white, while the transparent area is presented as white and gray boxes. If you'll copy on a black background, or change the color of the drawing, you'll see it.
Aaron Smith Posted December 11, 2003 Author Posted December 11, 2003 Tried that , nothing. I'm telling you Photoshop5.0 ltd is incapable of making the HUD. I attempted to change the color of a few of the existing TGAs and it all retained an even solid color.
RaSiN_HeCk Posted December 11, 2003 Posted December 11, 2003 so that leaves on option.... :ball:Beg other people to do it for you!!!
Aaron Smith Posted December 11, 2003 Author Posted December 11, 2003 Nah I aint begging no one to do nothing. I'll simply release as is and hopefully somewhere down the line someone will re release this with HUDs.
Neo_Knight Posted December 11, 2003 Posted December 11, 2003 I did the jedi starfighter hud and reticle (it's better ingame, there is a bit of jpeg compression on screenshot): http://www.r-on3.com/other/shot0051.jpg aaron you can find the zip with tgas here The only thing missing is the .veh with the good tga name
Sev Posted December 11, 2003 Posted December 11, 2003 i've been watching the vehicle model for ages and dude thats a sweet HUD!!!!! cant wait now!
tFighterPilot Posted December 11, 2003 Posted December 11, 2003 Originally posted by Neo_Knight I did the jedi starfighter hud and reticle (it's better ingame, there is a bit of jpeg compression on screenshot): http://www.r-on3.com/other/shot0051.jpg aaron you can find the zip with tgas here The only thing missing is the .veh with the good tga name w00t! Thanks for using my Snow Speeder for the screenshot
Zymotico Posted December 11, 2003 Posted December 11, 2003 Originally posted by Aaron Smith I'm telling you Photoshop5.0 ltd is incapable of making the HUD. You are using Photoshop 5.0? My previous instructions for accessing the alpha channel was based on 4.0. Did you check if the channels window is hidden. Go up to the Window menu and see if the Show Channels option is checked.
Aaron Smith Posted December 12, 2003 Author Posted December 12, 2003 First off Neo_knight, thank you,thank you, thank you for doing those HUDs . Zymotico I checked and there simply isn't a channels option for my perticular version of Photoshop, but I definitly apreciate the advise from everyone. Let me just check out these new HUDs ingame and it should be up at PCgamemods shortly.
Aaron Smith Posted December 12, 2003 Author Posted December 12, 2003 Ok it's up get it here http://www.pcgamemods.com/3384/
Neo_Knight Posted December 12, 2003 Posted December 12, 2003 imyourfather›› I love the snow speeder, we can get the hardest place with it (lol i love to land on asteroid in kfs with it). aaron smith›› thanks for getting ingame this awesome ship, i love it. Only one thing is a bit weird: the primary fire sound, is it the wookie bowcaster sound ? Otherwise that's one of the best ship released.
Aaron Smith Posted December 12, 2003 Author Posted December 12, 2003 Yes thats the bow caster, I hated the Xwing sounds and I thought these worked if you hate them, SORRY!
Sev Posted December 12, 2003 Posted December 12, 2003 ITS FINISHED ITS FINISHED !!!!!!! *starts dancing in joy*
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