Changing .dds files

[fvd]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to change the colour of the crosslines for both persicopes and TBT.
Because at night you can not align the horizontal crossline at the waterline of a ship because it's black, and so is the sea and so is the ship's hull...
I started with the TBT.
I have got some experience with photoshop and i've read that you can open .dds-files with photoshop (if you download and install some plug-in for Photoshop, which i did).
So i changed the color of the crossline from black to pink-red (same color as the night filter).

In the game i can see the difference, but the "glass" of the TBT is black now instead of transparent.
What should i do to keep it transparent?
I got this pop-upscreen when i saved this file, there were a whole lot of option fields which i could check or uncheck. (about mip-maps and stuff like that)
Probably this had something to do with it? :hmm:

Thanks,
fvd

[DeepIron]

I'm not familiar with the PhotoSHop plugin, but in my messing about with .dds files, you need to be sure to re-save the file alpha channel information and in either DXT1 or DXT5 encoding. Sounds like you may have issues with the alpha channel... :hmm:

VERY useful app for loading/saving .dds images: http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/
Go to the bottom of the page and use the download link. I use it in conjunction with the Gimp to work on SH4 textures and maps. Works great!

Cheers!

[fvd]

DeepIron,

Thanks for the advice!
I was thinking this was the problem.
But i did'nt exactly know which option i had to choose for this "Alpha thing" when saving the file, now i do.
Thanks again!

fvd

[DeepIron]

You bet!