Author Topic: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?  (Read 1725 times)

nopyo

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Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
« on: September 06, 2007, 07:40:50 PM »
I made one with what I believe is a transparent background and red and blue textures. But it just shows up like this:
 
I attached the .pcx file

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Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2007, 08:10:34 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.)

nopyo

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Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2007, 08:19:40 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.

QueeNiE

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Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2007, 06:55:20 PM »
Download the photoshop trial version from www.adobe.com.


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

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Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2007, 05:10:07 AM »
Irfanview TGA </3 DP, use GIMP.

QueeNiE

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Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2007, 10:03:20 AM »
Umm Viciouz.


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


 :P

nopyo

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Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2007, 10:24:06 AM »
Well, free is good :)

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Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2007, 11:56:22 AM »
GIMPs interface is also really, really horrible. It seems to me like they just kinda threw everything together. :P

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Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2007, 07:28:33 PM »
I got GIMP, but I can't figure out how to make it transparent.

ViciouZ

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Re: Can someone help me fix my custom crosshair?
« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2007, 03:35:17 AM »
Just draw it again on a completely new canvas. Or right click and set black as the alpha channel.