argh! why is my skin alltime invisible!?

I edited the Sylvanus skin, saved it as .blp , imported it to my map.
I insert the right path for the skin Units\Creeps\SylvanusWindrunner\SylvanusWindrunner.blp

i made the same whit an villagerwoman skin and it worked,

btw, what the hell is the alpha-channel!?

Try this:

Convert the .tga into .blp again, but put the detail setting to 75 or less. For some reason that seems to work for me.

i tried whit 75, and 50 now, i still have the hero glow only, and the skin is invisible

here Arohk try this...

hmmmm.. yours work!

what have you done whit it that it work?

i addad a bit more chains, tried again but its still invisible emote_confused
what is the trick? :bgrun:

what program are you using? i use photoshop 6.0...

... strange huh? did u touched the alpha channel?? or did u do something funny?
post a screenshot of what u see here so we can help u more...

the only working skin i made is a hight elf villager,

but on all others i have this

ahh i rember my first tries at skinning it looked just the same

@ Arohk:
1)what program are you using?
2)are you saving it as a tga?

1) I just use MS Paint, im trying to get a paintshop or photoshop :bgrun:

Image Extractor II > then i save as jpg.>i edit the jpg.>save as jpg again>convert the .jpg to .tga whit Irfan View>And las i make the .tga to .blp whit the image extractor,
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my Elf villager woman worked fine, could it be something whit the team colours?

paint doesn't work with skins cuz there are no alpha-channels anymore...
so get photoshop 6 or 7(u need plugin with 7)
and then try again!

I'm having the same problem with Photoshop 7, even with the plugin.

Could you outline the steps you use to create a workable .TGA?
1) Do you flatten the image, or is that not needed?
2) Do you go to File->Export, or Help->Export Transparent Image to save it?
3) What options (bit depth, RLE compression) do you check?