black square shields

[Romanman]

This keeps happening to my models with round shields, i need the black parts to be invisible how do i do this I have gimp?



ps I think my dds converter is making the black black instead of making it register as invisble. has anyone ever encountered this. sorry im new to skinning.

[Salvor Hardin]

I encountered this problem when using the dds converter myself and unfortunately I was not able to fix it. The only solution was to start using Photoshop.

[Halie Satanus]

The black shape is the part of the model which hasn't removed by an alpha channel, check out the Gimp tutorial, I'm pretty sure alpha channels are covered.

[Salvor Hardin]

Of course, Gimp is the free alternative to using Photoshop, so I should have adviced it to you first

[Roman_Man#3]

Get the DDS plug-in for GIMP, its pretty useful. I haven't been able to get alpha channels to work if I have more than one layer, so make sure if you copy-paste it goes on the background layer and doesn't create a new one.

[Solo1906]

I only use gimp - I had the same problem.

To correct this I started converting the DDS files into PNG's and then after changes have been made, converting back into a DDS. No more black boxes. I use version 2.2 on the converter. Try it and see if it works for you.