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[Bart]

Hi all, this is my first tutorial. I'm going to explain how save an image like this...



...as a TGA file with a proper alpha channel, so it appears right in BFME (II).

This tutorial is for Photoshop CS 2 (9.0)

1. Download these files:

Filter to remove transparency - save in %Photoshop%\Plug-Ins\Filters\
Dll to make it work - save in %Photoshop%\

2. Open your image. Merge the layers if you have more than one.

3. Select -> All. Now pick the move tool and press the Left and Right keys both once. This will select your image, like this:



4. Go the the channels and create a new channel. Select the new channel and fill it with white:



5. Select the RGB channel again. Now go to Filters -> Transparency -> Edit Transparency. Push the slider to 255 and click OK. Your image should look like this:



6. Save it as 32-bit TGA and it should appear right in-game

That's it. Please give comments

Thanks to this site for giving me the basis:
http://www.ypoart.co...Alpha-about.htm

Edited by 2playgames, 11 March 2006 - 11:30 PM.

[Hostile]

http://forums.revora...showtopic=21389 whopper wrote a tutorial on this some time back. Between the two it should help alot.

[Bart]

yes i saw it, but it requires you to manually paint your alpha channel