Transparency question

[wiltaz]

I've taken the standard Infantry Nato Symbol and saved it under a different name and copied the state abbr. box from the militia symbol. It looks the same as before with the white background color which I assume is defined as the transparency color. But when it's assigned and loaded into the game it's no longer transparent, it shows with a white background. What am I doing wrong? I've experimented with this and saving the file seems to remove the transparency. Any ideas?

[McNaughton]

What kind of graphics program are you using? PNG files work in having the transparant colour, actually not being a colour, but the absense of any shade or colour (like holes). This is how they get the effect of their graphics, how the edges can be transluscent. Your graphics program has to be able to recognize this feature.

[wiltaz]

Thanks. I don't know much about graphics and being a simpleton was using paint. I saw the white background and thought that was replaced in the program as the transparency. I got a copy of the wife's adobe photoshop and have seen the error of my ways. I have figured out enough to make my symbols.

[Rafiki]

Feel free to publish them; they'd be interesting to see