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Paintball 2: The Game => Help and Support => Topic started by: nopyo on September 06, 2007, 09:40:50 PM

Title: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
Post by: nopyo on September 06, 2007, 09:40:50 PM

I made one with what I believe is a transparent background and red and blue textures. But it just shows up like this: (http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee2/nopyo/sshot000.jpg)
 
I attached the .pcx file

Title: Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
Post by: Eiii on September 06, 2007, 10:10:34 PM

I don't have anything that can open PCX, but it looks like you're just painting stuff black/erasing it instead of making it transparent. What image editor do you use?

(Also: why do we still use PCX formats? Why not TGA or something? PCX is all old, and about all that supports it is PS or gimp.)

Title: Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
Post by: nopyo on September 06, 2007, 10:19:40 PM

I use InfranView, it allows me to select the color that I want  to be transparent. I can convert it into a TGA but the game rejects the "type" of TGA , it only accepts type 2 and/or 10 (dunno what type I have).  Attached a .tga version.

Title: Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
Post by: QueeNiE on September 07, 2007, 08:55:20 PM

Download the photoshop trial version from www.adobe.com.


It's way easier to mess with cross hairs with that :)

Title: Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
Post by: ViciouZ on September 08, 2007, 07:10:07 AM

Irfanview TGA </3 DP, use GIMP.

Title: Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
Post by: QueeNiE on September 08, 2007, 12:03:20 PM

Umm Viciouz.


Photoshop is at least 10X better than GIMP.  Even though GIMP is free.


 :P

Title: Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
Post by: nopyo on September 08, 2007, 12:24:06 PM

Well, free is good :)

Title: Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
Post by: Eiii on September 08, 2007, 01:56:22 PM

GIMPs interface is also really, really horrible. It seems to me like they just kinda threw everything together. :P

Title: Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
Post by: nopyo on September 08, 2007, 09:28:33 PM

I got GIMP, but I can't figure out how to make it transparent.

Title: Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
Post by: ViciouZ on September 09, 2007, 05:35:17 AM

Just draw it again on a completely new canvas. Or right click and set black as the alpha channel.