Building UI card problem

[kekesvar.bingos]

Hi there,

I know, this is no place for modding issues, but in the modding issues thread nobody seems to response and i have no great amount of time so, please...

i have a bit of problem with modding new buildings into my campaign of Roma Surrectum. I managed to get different building trees working with desired effects even for different cultures ( ), but now, when i am adding building icons i have problem with the BACKGROUND of the actual picture (i mean the small picture in building overview).
I tried to fill the background of my own new icon with the SAME colour, as the vanillas icons backgrounds have, but still, in the game, the icon would appera NOT without background, but with it. Then i tried to "cut" the figure from the background and leave it without it (dont know the exact terms in english as im not native speaker and have not great experience with graphic editors). Again, no desired effect would appear, as the icons still would have background in the games building overview (but now completely white one).

I realized, that the icons you have used for your new buildings (like the grain import facility) have no visible background in the game, even though when i open it with ACDSee it have visible background so... I dont know where the problem is.


Please could you help me? I tried to search the forums, i found only something about unit ui cards, where the guy was writing about some alpha channels in transparency menu of his graphic editor...

P.S.: I am using Corel Paint Shop Pro 12, but willing to use any supposed graphic editor.

Thanks a lot, modders!

[dvk901]

You need to create what's called an 'alpha channel' for your cards that 'masks out' the part of the picture you DON'T want to be displayed.
Note the 'alpha1' channel in this shot from my Adobe Photoshop:



The black area around the image you want to see blocks the part of the texture you don't want to see.

[Visarion]

dvk is cool!