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FPSC Classic Models and Media / Game Menu HUD pointer (menu screen on-screen mouse) HELP!!!

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Siphon_Studios
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Posted: 7th Feb 2013 07:43
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Ok, so i made this really cool pointer for my game, and I load it it. It works fine. The only problem is, I cant get the white to be transparent. In Photoshop, I have a transparent layer under a paintbrush layer that is painted on transparency. Yet when it is loaded into the game and previewed, the transparent parts are white.

Basically I want parts of the mouse pointer for the game menu to be transparent. How do I do this?

Any help would be appreciated!

I have Photoshop CS5 if this helps.

Thanks!

(p.s. not sure if this goes here, just thought it would cause its "media")

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Teabone
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Posted: 7th Feb 2013 10:21
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What file format are you using?

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Siphon_Studios
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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 01:04
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Im using .tga @Teabone

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Flatlander
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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 05:53
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Personally, I always had problems with transparency using TGA. Going to PNG seemed to work better for me. I don't know if that would work for you better or not. My huds were not pointers but text huds that I wanted to be transparent.

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geistschatten
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Try doing black as the background instead of white. Doesn't FPSC convert the files to DDS or something anyways and then black is treated as transparent?

I may be totally wrong, that's just my experience with it
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Siphon_Studios
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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 19:20
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Thanks guys! I'll look into the black transparency and the PNG format. I thought it only took .tga though

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