Item TGA without the circle around it?

[Damascus]

I've looked around for a tutorial, but can't seem to find one. I can't make a TGA for an item that doesn't end up with either a black/white circle/square around it. I tried filling in the alpha channel with black, but it renders the whole thing invisible in game.

[NaxEla]

Use a png file instead of tga.

[Statyk]

Make the background (invisible part) of the RGB channels black as well. Not sure why it does this, but it does.

[Damascus]

Make the background (invisible part) of the RGB channels black as well. Not sure why it does this, but it does.

When I make the RGB background and alpha background all black, it just renders the image invisible in game, unless my mouse is hovering over it in my inventory.

[crisosphinx]

Dam, when making an alpha'd symbol, try, in photoshop or equivalent, to just have the image and no background. If you make the layer transparent, it's possible that it'll show up as just the symbol.

I do this when I make desktop icons, try to create a new layer in photoshop to edit, etc. (there are a bunch of other uses I utilize it for). PNG, DDS, TGA, doesn't matter. TGA is just byte heavy. PNG is nice. DDS seems to work well with any other in game textures for level of detail (which doesn't apply here).


If it doesn't work, let me know~!

[Apjjm]

If you are talking about a "white halo" on transparent textures (the effect may carry over to the item tga?) that can be caused by the graphics program removing color data (defaults to all white in fireworks for certain) when saving on fully transparent sections - this can cause the effect if the image is up/down scaled for example, due to interpolation (a bunch of other stuff can probably effect it too). I'm not entirely sure what programs can get around this though - I think GIMP probably has an option somewhere.

[Damascus]

I actually got it to work by making the alpha channel black, with the shape of the item in white.