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GIMP, Alpha channel - need some help

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Gents,

I was playing around with w Gmax and GIMP and its effect:







But I have a problem w alpha channel. Areas where I want alpha are white.



I found on internet tutorial how to add alpha ch in GIMP, done everything step by step but looks like it doesn work.



its fine in Gimp but Gmax doesn't see alpha, nither dxtbmp.

Probably I did something wrong but don't know what. I appretiate any suggestions, tutorials etc.

regards
Mike
 
To my knowledge, GMax will only show you white or black for the alpha, put it onto FS and see what happens, it may work then.

I know just as much as you, but you appear to know how to create crisp looking textures, fancy showing/telling me how? Thanks
 
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Photoshop user here:

Gmax won't render alpha transparency for most texture formats (including psd, which I typically use)

Similarly DXTBmp won't directly read the alpha channel for these formats.

The exception (from memory) is .tga

You could try saving your textures in tga with alpha format, there may be a box for alpha source in the Gmax Map rollout (ie near where you specify the texture) ... I think it is not only in Max.

If you wish to use .psd textures, then a simple export, then a viewing of the mdl file with Arno's modelconverterX is the way to go. This will render the transparency pretty well, without having to start the sim.
In this case, use the fsx Imagetool to convert to dds (try setting up some shortcuts with the different CLI options for each texture type)
 
@hcornea

You were right. Saving in PSD help alot. Problem solved



Little touch-up and will be ok.
 
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