| 10-25-2003, 04:16 AM | #1 |
I need help. The following skins of mine keep failing, and I want to know why. I use a freeware program called Arcsoft Photostudio 2000, and I will continue to do so until I can get Photoshop, or at least Paintshop. Photostudio has not got alpha channels, but the others are too expensive, so until I get enough money, it's gonna stay that way. Bloodmage Asassin Illidan (Evil) Peasant Demon Hunter Bandit Militia Deathknight Arthas Blademaster Erm, that's all I can think of right now, but I can also tell you which skins do work for me. Grom Hellscream Thrall Warden Spellbreaker Villager Kid Abomination Can anyone think of anything all the skins that don't work for me have in common? |
| 10-25-2003, 05:01 AM | #2 |
First of all, what is the problem? If you describe exactly what is going wrong, then maybe then I can help ya out... :bgrun: As for the "No Alpha Channel" thing, that kinda sucks. Not only are you unable to make team colors show, you are unable to use the invisibility thing, which is cool... Does it take TGA format? Do you have WC3 Viewer? If you say no to either of these, that is not good... More so the first one. Since it can't load TGA's, that might be the reason some skins will work better than others (there isn't really anything relevant about the skins in question). Get WC3 Viewer, if you don't have it, and get back to me on what exactly is going wrong... |
| 10-25-2003, 06:10 AM | #3 |
maybe its got something to do with ur program u r using, maybe in some tga's itlll work or somethin i dunno. we need 2 know what is actually wrong. plus if ya want photoshop 7.01 (which will indeed work) just head over to http://www.adobe.com and follow the links and dl it, may take a while but that program is garantee'd to work. or paintshop pro 8.0 (dunno the link) try those soz cant help you nemore than that. |
| 10-25-2003, 03:53 PM | #4 |
Has it made a successful skin yet? perhaps it makes them 24-bit instead of 32-bit Or you importing them wrong? |
| 10-26-2003, 12:08 AM | #5 |
I can't get wc3 viewer, because it doesn't download, I use image extracter. Yes, it opens tgas. I have made succesful skins for all of the ones I listed that worked for me. What is exactly going wrong? I have no idea. Something screws up the skins to just show the player colour, and no I have not gone over team colour, I even tried by putting a grey dot on a blood mage's head, and it still didn't work. I am getting really annoyed. |
| 10-27-2003, 02:18 AM | #6 |
It has to do with the channels. Quite simply, if a "channel mask" is not on right, it will do the opposite of what it's suposed to do. Instead of covering the team colors, it covers the skin itself. Try looking in the options of your skin editor, and make sure exactly how the TGA's work ands load on it. Then make sure hat it uses channels (it should... its TGA), and check out what the channels are set at. If the alpha channel works as a mask, like a lot of programs, then make sure it is not "inverted", in which it reverses the efect. For instance, if I set the alpha channel to a square on a blood mages head, it would make a hole there. If it happened to be inverted, everything "except" the hole would be invisible. Again, if this doesn't work, I don't know what will. |
| 10-28-2003, 05:34 AM | #7 |
Ok, let me go to the masks bar...there is no masks bar...Speciel filters...there is: Maximum Median Minimum Add noise Find contour Solorization Logarithm That's all the speciel filters. I've searched. Nothing about alpha channels. |