[SmokeyDaBear]

What is an Alpha Texture? Where do you find it? What does it do? How do you edit it? And where can you find these tools to edit it if it is editable?

[GuyInTheWindow]

Alpha Texture is a black n white image that tells the engine what parts of the texture should/shouldn't be visible, invisible, or transparent.

Some file formats, like tga and dds, include the alpha texture into the file. You can use photoshop or paint shop pro (not sure) to edit it.

In photoshop, u go to the channels tab and create a new channel. If the file already has a transparent data, it would be a channel in the tab besides the default of rgb, red, green, blue

In the channel, u just take a brush and paint black or white colors on it. Trying to paint a color on it wouldn't do much.

[SmokeyDaBear]

Oh, thanx... just needed to know cause, i been trying to skin lately and was wondering stuff...its a good thing roco helped me tho...

[Yuki Kiba Dakatsu]

I have Photoshop 5.0 LE, I dont have a Channels tab, anyone know what I can do?

[SoulReaver]

Get a newer version of Photoshop, as i remember alpha chanells only came with the 7.0, if you get 7.0 be sure to also get a patch for it.

[Yuki Kiba Dakatsu]

Can I just upgrade my version? I heard Photoshop costed $500!

[SoulReaver]

http://www.gimp.org/

[SmokeyDaBear]

Ok, is there any thing like photoshop, that is free and downloadable or somethin cause...all i got right now is paint and a XnView...or is the XnView good enough?

[SoulReaver]

http://blog.yumdap.net/archives/20-G...r-Windows.html