Skin: Greyscale

having trouble with transparency

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Hello, This is my first time skinning for Windowsblinds, and im having a bit of trouble with the transparency of my skin.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

 

I'm using The GIMP 2.4 to make this, saving the files as PNGs and exporting them to TGA with Skinstudio.

this is the mockup i madeand this is how its looking so far :(

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Looks like Acrylic but black.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Heh is that a compliment or something. :P

 

I Ain't going to lie, I'm using Acrylic as a template (since its so awesome) but all the graphics you see on my mockup are built out of scratch.

I ported the xcf file to a PSD since i presume you all use photoshop, just so you can see the differences and similarities.

http://outerlimitsgfx.com/Images/Misc/greyscaled_doze.psd
http://outerlimitsgfx.com/Images/Misc/greyscaled_doze.xcf

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

well, that very well may be, but what youve ...done.. looks pretty similar.. for example.. if you look at the top layer, background, which I assume is greyscaled acrylic, looks like you just sorta.. traced it?

Anyway.. its not my skin, im just sayin.. If it were me, I'd try to be a bit more original.

As far as transparency.. all you have to do is import a transparent png or tga and make sure the transparency and translucency heckboxes are checked.

Good luck.