Need help with Emblem

The Butcher · 12-28-07, 08:29 PM

The black areas in my image are showing up transparent when put on my sub. I also have some writing below the cleaver in the .tga file that is black and doesn't show here at all. I put the image together with Gimp and it shows up fine. I am not at all skilled with the program. It took me two days and finaly some help from my Photoshop literate son. Any ideas? Thanks

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/7...2647656jj2.jpg
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/3...metzgerdh3.jpg

Also if anyone can let me know if my translation is correct. I thought Der Schlachter was a little over the top.

Chock · 12-28-07, 08:40 PM

Sounds like you are either missing some alpha channel data or have some data on tha alpha channel which is effecting things in the wrong way.

Images with areas of transparency usually have an 'alpha channel', which is used to map which areas will be transparent. So, on your emblem for example, you would have the three normal channels which make up the image (red, green, blue channels) plus another channel on which any part which is black will appear transparent when the image is used in the sim, and areas which are white will be opaque in the sim, and any shade in between black and white will have a varying degree of transparency depending on what shade of grey it is (usually there are 256 shades of grey readable from totally black, to totally white). So on your emblem, the alpha channel should look completely black apart from a white cleaver shape, so that only your cleaver shows up in the sim because the sim reads the areas of black as transparent.

So, to adjust this, you need to look on the 'channels' palette in your painting software and select or add an alpha channel and then work on that.

Chock

CapZap1970 · 12-28-07, 08:50 PM

Hi Butcher:
I took the liberty of making the meblem with the image you posted.

D/l it from here: http://files.filefront.com/Metzgerra.../fileinfo.html
Enjoy!
CapZap

Koondawg · 12-28-07, 08:51 PM

Another thing I can think of would be did you add it to both connings? Or you could save as a .tga and add into emblems and select through there.

I have several black emblem images in mine and they show up fine when selected...

The Butcher · 12-28-07, 09:03 PM

Thanks for the quick help. I will give it a whack. Art is a stretch for me.

CapZap1970 · 12-28-07, 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Butcher

Thanks for the quick help. I will give it a whack. Art is a stretch for me.

No prob

Let me know how did it work...
CapZap

12-28-07, 08:29 PM	#1
The Butcher Loader Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 85 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	Need help with Emblem The black areas in my image are showing up transparent when put on my sub. I also have some writing below the cleaver in the .tga file that is black and doesn't show here at all. I put the image together with Gimp and it shows up fine. I am not at all skilled with the program. It took me two days and finaly some help from my Photoshop literate son. Any ideas? Thanks http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/7...2647656jj2.jpg http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/3...metzgerdh3.jpg Also if anyone can let me know if my translation is correct. I thought Der Schlachter was a little over the top.

12-28-07, 08:40 PM	#2
Chock Sea Lord Join Date: May 2005 Location: Under a thermal layer in chilly Olde England Posts: 1,842 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Sounds like you are either missing some alpha channel data or have some data on tha alpha channel which is effecting things in the wrong way. Images with areas of transparency usually have an 'alpha channel', which is used to map which areas will be transparent. So, on your emblem for example, you would have the three normal channels which make up the image (red, green, blue channels) plus another channel on which any part which is black will appear transparent when the image is used in the sim, and areas which are white will be opaque in the sim, and any shade in between black and white will have a varying degree of transparency depending on what shade of grey it is (usually there are 256 shades of grey readable from totally black, to totally white). So on your emblem, the alpha channel should look completely black apart from a white cleaver shape, so that only your cleaver shows up in the sim because the sim reads the areas of black as transparent. So, to adjust this, you need to look on the 'channels' palette in your painting software and select or add an alpha channel and then work on that. Chock __________________

12-28-07, 08:50 PM	#3
CapZap1970 Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: La Paz, Bolivia Posts: 1,965 Downloads: 275 Uploads: 51	Hi Butcher: I took the liberty of making the meblem with the image you posted. D/l it from here: http://files.filefront.com/Metzgerra.../fileinfo.html Enjoy! CapZap __________________

12-28-07, 09:03 PM	#5
The Butcher Loader Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 85 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the help Thanks for the quick help. I will give it a whack. Art is a stretch for me.

12-28-07, 08:51 PM	#4
Koondawg Grey Wolf Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Pasadena, Ca Posts: 852 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Another thing I can think of would be did you add it to both connings? Or you could save as a .tga and add into emblems and select through there. I have several black emblem images in mine and they show up fine when selected...