Creating Team Glow???

ok i dont want to sound like an idiot but i have psp 8 and im workin on a skin but when im using it there is no team glow now im not sure if it has anything to do with alpha channels and if it does how can i create one cuz ive tried creating it but its not working and im gettin so frustrated plz help me...

p.s. i read how to make team colour and that did not help me at all

team glow or hero glow or whatever you want to call it can NOT,KEYWORD NOT be added.your thinking of modeling,not skinnning.all skinning can do alpha chanel wise is delete team colored parts.

i.c. well thanks for lettin me know cuz everyone I know and have asked said it was to do with the skin but I guess their idiots

Ahem. Team glow and team color are two different things. If you need to give the team color to a unit, then the alpha channel is EXACTLY what you need to edit. It's true that depends on the model, however. In simple words, a model can 'read' the alpha channel in two different manner, depending on the 'materials' that the models use. The alpha channel can be used either to 'erase' some parts of the model, or (and that's the teamcolor case) blend two skin on the same surface.
I have psp7 but i assume the steps are pretty much the same.
1-create a new layer
2-In the "mask" menu select 'Load from alpha channel'
3-Again in the mask menu select 'view mask' and then 'edit mask';
4- now use the paint brush to edit the layer. As i said before, the unit skin and the team color skin are merged; the darker you make the alpha channel, the more visible is the secondary skin in that area.
5- If you have made your changes, go again to the mask menu and 'save to alpha channel' Overwrite the old channel.
6- delete the mask layer, save and convert to blp.

Done :god_help_us:

ya im sure it works but there is no mask menu and when i tried to edit it it didnt save it when it the way i changed it so i think psp 8 is different cuz i cant find half the things u speak of but ill keep trying

also im using a skin that has no alpha yet so i need to know how to add it in???

There should be a menu window that says channels on it. Click on it and click on the one that says Alpha. You can put grayscale color on it to make it have team color or transparency.

lol ok well thats how you add team colour but i want GLOW! im pretty sure I need a model thing of some sort but thats all i need