I don't have any fancy art programs except for Microsoft Paint and ArcSoft Photostudio, so I was wondering, if anyone knows, in these programs how do you make a certain color or layer or whatever, "transparent"? If you look at the latest MS3D news on their website, there's a tutorial on a tree. I've looked at the tree texture now for awhile and can't recreate it no matter how hard I try.
So my question is, either how do you make a texture transparent like this, or to get it transparent in game (B3D) would I need to code the transparency in using RGB?
Thanks,
Chad
download GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/windows/Im sure it can do that for you ;)
you could go to:
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/download Photoplus6 which is free - register it - also free - and download the pdf companion for it which explains how to do various things including the use of layers. If you live in the UK you could get emails from them or even phone calls to encourage you to upgrade but that's the only downside. Strangely, since moving to Malta, I don't even have to put up with those!!
regards
or this, which mentto be MSPaints update:
http://www.getpaint.net/ I use Gimp as Photoshop is way too expensive, although I just got photoshop elements (a legal copy) from ebay dirt cheap.
Gimp is awesome, have used in many projects. But for more simple paint tools, have a look at Paint.NET.
http://www.getpaint.net/index.htmlIts pretty lightweight, but useful for quick editing.
Thanks guys, I went for Photoplus6 which BigH gave me the link for and it's perfect for what I want, but I'm sure someone else will find these other links useful also.