Help with Paint Shop and Alpha

[DaPlaya]

Hi, I sort of am having great difficulty with getting paint shop pro to make files with transparent parts as textures that I can put in a map

What I do is:
Make the texture, add the alpha channel
save the tga file
convert the tga file to a texture keeping 32 bit colour

but after I do all this, the final texture does not have any transparent patches in it.
:confused:
Could someone please help me out, or do I jsut have to get photoshop

[HighMaintenance]

What does the texture look like? Your texture with black where it should be transparent?

Did you play with the blending modes in the texture properties?

[DaPlaya]

I think I have jsut stuffed up some where in the alpha texture part ... the image is supposed to look like leaves or atleast patches of green with transparent parts but it jsut ends up looking like green spots with white background ... i dont know maybe it's jsut paint shop not working correctly with the user ... :updown: ...

[Smithboy]

Open your image up in paint shop pro after you've saved it and see if the alpha channel is still there.

[DaPlaya]

it does save the alpha channel it's jsut weird that serious ediditor does not agree with waht paint shop is saying.

[DaPlaya]

I think it is jsut noobie mapper me ... :dork: ... not knowing exactly how to get transparent (alpha) textures to work ... it would be nice if there was a tutorial for such things ...

[HighMaintenance]

http://www.deadlydood.com/Tutorials/AlphaTutorial/AlphaTutorialPSP.htm

[DaPlaya]

Thanks I got it working now.

[Max]

Was it the step where you have to "save to alpha channel?"

That one stumped me for about a week.

[DaPlaya]

nah stupid me forgot to update SS since last format, so i was using 1.0 and that doesn't allow translulient polygons, only transparent, i think ... well i updates ss and all of a suden the check box i had been looking for was there...:dork:

[Max]

:grenade:

hate it when that happens :grumble:

[DaPlaya]

indeed