Alpha Channels and Team Color Probs.

Ok, I'm trying to remove the Shamans right hand and a part of his arm. My problem is the Alpha Channels, I can't seem to remove the team color (make it invisible in that area) like you can with other things, like weapons and such.

What am I doing wrong, and how do I kill that damn team color (I'll post an ingame shot of the skin as it is shown here)

And a second shot:

And a shot of the in game (Can't even remove the claws now...)

Help pls!

Make Sure The Black Is 100 percent black.

You cannot alpha out team colors. To remove his arm what you should do is edit the model by taking off his arm.

**** :P lol

I have no idea on how to edit models, changing them to Gmax and editing them.... I need a VERY good tut...

I DID manage to get a model in there, but I choked when I was trying to edit it (deleting polys and stuff....HARD!)

You Can transparent with alpha

How do I transparent? My black is 100%, and I have managed to remove the weapon off the captain eg. but I can't seem to "remove" this guys...

I can also just paint skin over the "team color part" of the arm, and kill the hand by making it transparent (if I could get it to work...)

An extremely good tut for GMax can be found at Here

It helped me so much. It explains a lot, but at a few parts you need to "read between the lines" sort of.

Thanks alot :) Now I just need to get how to edit the transparency (I got the Targa plugin btw, Phsp 7.0)

Update your 7.0 photoshop to 7.1 For alpha channel.

What ever you do DON'T I repeit DON'T upgrade to 7.1. You have the alpha channel already if you have the targa update\plug-in. 7.1 can also ruin the "experience" of photoshop for some people because it is not as good as 7.0. Why that is, I have no idea. Thats just what I hear from people who have it.

Got targa, just can't remove stuff now...?

Trying to figure out gmax too, but I can't seem to get a hold of certain polys...really wierd...takes some time to learn :P Used to 3dsmax..

to alpha out the team color isnt hard. Just remove the line where it say ReplaceableID # in the model file as *.mdl format.