Unit Icon Question

I added the changed icons of the peasant to my map, but they show up as pure green and not the picture itself. What am I doing wrong? I know I added them correctly ... using the right directory.

The icons are 64x64 right? and should be saved in .blp format.... any ideas?

Has your icon a alpha channel ?

What's an alpha channel? :D

And how do I implement it?

The alpha channel is the transparency layer.
Only tga files can have an alpha channel, did you make your custom icon in tga format?

I suggest you to convert an existing icon to tga and than copy/paste your icon over it.
Save it in tga format then convert to blp.

thanks I will try that. I will be back with results