Button shadow

posted on January 14th, 2010, 1:32 pm

Hi

I have a problem to replace a button.

I decided to replace an existing vessel by another. No problem for replacing textures and sod files. The new vessel is perfectly buildable.
When i tried to replace the button pic, i success to edit federationbutton and wireframe tga files and the pic appears in the game, but it remains a black shadow of the old ship behind it.

I did not find any file to change that, could anyone help me please ?

(sorry for y approximative english)

posted on January 15th, 2010, 2:07 am

That is most likely due to the Alpha Channel within the TGA file (which contains the picture of the button).  When you alter or create a TGA, you will need to change the Alpha Channel as well, the game uses the Alpha Channel to determine which parts of the picture are visible and which parts are transparent.  I am not very good with alpha channels myself, but there should be tutorials available with whatever program you use.  If your program has no Alpha Channel editing capabilities, I suggest using GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) which is Free to download and use.  Hope this helps.

posted on January 15th, 2010, 11:56 am

It works! I used Photoshop and it works perfectly. Thank you very much for your help! 

posted on January 16th, 2010, 1:33 am

Glad I could help