Load-out tga

[cperleberg 4]

How do you set up the loadout tga so that the background is transparent? I think it has something to do with alpha channels and transparency, but for the life of me all I ever get is a blank screen. Anybody help?

 

Chris P.

(I did search the site first, but couldn't find any info on this topic)

[MigBuster 2,879]

Normally changing the Opacity - What are you editing the TGA in Photoshop?

[cperleberg 4]

I'm using Paint Shop Pro at the moment. Last thing I tried was to create a transparent background, paste the aircraft shape over it (paste transparent), then move the selection to an alpha channel. Save the whole thing as a tga. Comes out as a blank.

[Wrench 9,758]

the alpha is not saving correctly. the area outside of the aircraft shape should be 100% opaque, the inner area should be fully transparent

 

OTH, the SF2 WILL still read them as bmps. Might be a bit easier, eh?

[+paulopanz 2,854]

I do usually do this way:

 

- open a stock SF-2 loadout tga file

- add a trasparent plane front shape (you can do it from whatever file format  you have erasing the backgroud) - copy and paste

- you will have a new layer

- erase or hide original loadout plane layer

- simply save in tga format the new one

 

it works fine.