How do you use team color?

My $ 0.02

The teamcolored parts of the unit are shown as black areas in the alpha chanal. You put teamcolor an area of a unit by painting that area black in the alpha chanal. The teancolor is used by the (...)_FX.nif.
 
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a dds has the "normal" image and a alpha-image. for unit-skins and flags the alpha-image is for the teamcolor (black is teamcolor). i don't know how the dds-converter or photoshop works, but you should have 2 pictures inside one dds.
i would therefor recommend dxtbmp. it shows cleary the both images.
example: the middle image would be the normal texture, and the one right is the alpha-channel image
dxtbmpvorherxz4.jpg
 
I use DXT BMP and there is a pic with colors and one which is only black and white. The black and white pic is the alpha chanal.:rolleyes:

EDIT: too late, od1n was faster...
 
There is a lot of black in the .dds file, so why isn't that showing up as team color? Maybe I can't see the Alpha Channel (whatever that is) with Photoshop. Oh, and the converter just converts .dds to .jpg. should I be using .bmp or .psd?
 
ggganz said:
There is a lot of black in the .dds file, so why isn't that showing up as team color?
good question...

ggganz said:
Maybe I can't see the Alpha Channel (whatever that is) with Photoshop
haven't you looked at my first post (post #4)? i described there what the alpha-channel is. it could be that you can't see the alphchannel in photoshop. in my paintprogramm i can switch between the normal picture and the alphachannel. perhaps you have a similar option in photoshop.

ggganz said:
Oh, and the converter just converts .dds to .jpg. should I be using .bmp or .psd?
i think it is regardless of which formate it is you convert to. but it should be at least 2 pics which should be converted from dds to jpg, bmp, ... and also it should be 2 pictures which should re-converted from jpg, bmp, ... to dds.
but as said, i don't know how the dds-converter works. perhaps it can't convert the alphachannel....
 
ggganz said:
There is a lot of black in the .dds file, so why isn't that showing up as team color? Maybe I can't see the Alpha Channel (whatever that is) with Photoshop. Oh, and the converter just converts .dds to .jpg. should I be using .bmp or .psd?


if youre using photoshop and the dds converter, make the dds a png (i find this works best) then open it up as usual. a number of the "team color" parts will show up as no color(the white background with the gray boxes). you can use the eraser to color team color parts(just as if you were using the paintbrush tool. "color" over the area you want to have the team color with the eraser. setting the op. etc with the eraser will have the same effect as it does with the paintbrush tool. you can create shadows and things of that nature still using the eraser). this isnt true for every file though. they didnt seem to stay very consistant. im not sure about the one youre speaking of.
 
As a jpg I see the team colored area as some beige pixels. Then I messed it up and I erased it so that it was white. I am not sure if the converter can do .png. Also, when I make it transparency, it shows up as transparency. At least, that's how I did this. Although, it is a weapon
 
ggganz said:
As a jpg I see the team colored area as some beige pixels. Then I messed it up and I erased it so that it was white. I am not sure if the converter can do .png. Also, when I make it transparency, it shows up as transparency. At least, that's how I did this. Although, it is a weapon


i have dds converter 2 and it does bmp, jpg, png, psd and tga. when i first started to use it, i would make the files jpg and they would not turn out correctly. i honestly dont remember what was going wrong because it was a while ago though, ive had no problem with making them into pngs then saving the png and reconverting it to dds. a lot of the editing ive done has been about changing team color positions ond things like that. i do have a later version of ohotoshop though but from what i remember its still very similar to 7.

you may also want to try getting the nvidia plugin for photoshop that lets you directly open up dds files in photoshop without conversions. there are a lot of options on opening and saving the files here but i never use it because its just easier for me to convert them and not figure out what all of those settings do... but one f them may help you out. i think there is a link somewhere on this site though i dont know where. try the search if youre interested or maybe someone else knows it.
 
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