Black Icons! Help!

When I inserted an icon that I made into a map, I found that it showed up as a black square. Not green, but black.

I was looking at the data Image Ex. II displayed. It says on Blizzard icons:

ID: BLP
Imagetype: Jpg-Blp
Imagemode: 0
Unknown1: 5
Unknown2: 1
XResolution: 64
YResolution: 64

On my icons, however, it reads:

ID: BLP
Imagetype: Jpg-Blp
Imagemode: 8
Unknown1: 4
Unknown2: 1
XResolution: 64
YResolution: 64

Unfortunatly, I have on idea what this means and/or how to change it. Changing the detail settings does not result in change. However, using another program results in:

ID: BLP
Imagetype: Jpg-Blp
Imagemode: 6
Unknown1: 4
Unknown2: 1
XResolution: 64
YResolution: 64

Which also shows up as a black square.

Anyone know why or how I can fix this?

It wouldbe helpful, if you specify the used programs!

I used Image Extracter II for the first one and War 3 Viewer for the second.

Do you have an alpha channel on your icone ?

No, I don't believe so. This happens with all 78 icons, so I don't think it's the icon, unless you are supposed to have an Alpha.

This means you have an alpha channel.

Unknown 1 has to do with team colors, if >= 0x5, team colors will not show on units.

Unknown 2 has to do with texture placement, should always be >= 0x1

So... what does Imagemode: 6 mean? How can I get rid of the Alpha channel? And rid of team colors?

What do you mean by 0x5? Obvoiusly not multiplication, that would only be 0, whjy bother putting x something. So... I'm sorry, please exlplain this to me.

The 0x should indicate that it is a hexadecimal number. Any hexadecimal number that represents a value <10 is the same as it's decimal equal.
So

But

OK, I know hexadecimals (HTML, colors). I did not know that the 0x signified it, though. Thanks. But how do I get rid of it?

Post one of your non working icone so we can take a look.

When you export with you image editing program, make sure you specify that there is no alpha channel. You can even try this: Export to a windows bitmap (bmp), then convert to TGA.

Actually, you NEED an alpha channel for icons to show.

Very well, the .blp is here, the .jpg that is how it is supposed to look is here.

I'm trying converting BMP -> TGA now.

Done. Same results.

You forgot to join the blp.

I am sur you don't have an alpha channel.
The easiest way to do icones is to convert an existing blp icone to tga and copy/paste your icone over it. Save to tga and convert to blp.

It was just an idea to make sure that there was no alpha channel.