Alpha channels

well i want to edit the skin of my hero to desapear the weapon some 1 told me to set the weapong alpha channel to black or something. any 1 knows how to disapear the weapon???

Apparently some programs cant change alpha channels. People say that the retail version of psp 8 cant, and im useing the trial version of it and it works. So you might not be able to.

If you can look for something about loading from masks. I beleive that the alpha channels are stored in something to that degree in most programs. If you search the help it should tell you how to do this.

What you have to do is load the alpha channel (your paintbrush proboly changed to black and white, or some degree of gray). Anything that is white will show on the skin, anything that is black will not show in game. I beleive most programes have everything that is black on the alpha show transparent when working on it.

But since a picture is worth a thousand words, heres a picture of a before and after alpha channel of the footman. The weapon is in the top left hand corner.

[edit] that image showed larger than i expected, sorry if its too large. I didnt check the image size. I deleted it and i an posting it in next.

Im posting the picture here becuase it was too large.

Weapon is top left. This is from psp 8.

i have photoshop and it works the alpha channel because i made custom skins before, but to disapear the weapon i have to set the alpha channel to back and i dont know how to do it... .:ggani:

in the tutorial says "set the Alpha layer" how do i do that??? and i need to fix the alpha channel stuff too

If i had photoshop infront of me i could proboly help you, but i dont have it. I have used photoshop alot, but not for skin editing.

oh well.. thanks anyway :D im working on to see what i can do...