I.R. Brainiac I.R. Brainiac

I GIVE UP

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I GIVE UP

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I have just wasted hours and hours with Skinstudio......graphics that wont change,graphics that change for no reason,undo dosnt work,no backups,toolbar icons that wont apply,skins that get broke and cant be fixed,multiple copies of the skin showing up,import features that wont import,.tga's not working right,edit a file and save it it dosnt change.... > > >

to hell with this,I'm gonna watch TV
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The items themselves support transparency but the actual menu background does not. I guess I am confused about the specific images or something. PixelPirate, Your glosswb uses magic pink for the items. Most skins do. Is it the actual background you are talking about? My version of airlock uses .bmp images for the background and .tgas for the items. Yeah, I must be lost.
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Photoshop CS saves tga's as 32bit with the alpha channel. At least mine does? I was talking about the items. I was just messing around in SS, putting a new skin together. But the bar items or wouldn't show correctly whether it be tga or bmp,it just used the unskinned color instead, and that drove me nuts. I think I'll start over with a fresh template. I haven't had that problem before
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
oops, I thought that was the background. If you click the background it is so close to the item in Airlock. Back on subject, I import png's all the time. It's much easier than trying to take the magic pink runover? out of a image. Especially when your image has a translucent shadow. There are PNG and TGA settings that must be set right in your paint program. Otherwise everything will go to "hell in a handbasket".
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
but the actual menu background does not


What I don't understand is why all the attributes are available for transparency and translucency in a menu background when it doesn't work.