Making transparent texture ?

[robertoHrvat]

Hi all,
My question is: How make transparent texture with photoshop? On example green glass (I think to you see green color and to you can see trought it).

Pls help me 

[Aldo15]

Hi man

Try to look for it in google I've found some tutorials there... Hope it helps

NOTE: Click on google link to see results

[robertoHrvat]

Thanks Aldo15

Cheers!

[Walter_E_Kurtz]

There's even a tutorial here at OFPEC by kalasnikov471.

You need to ensure that the texture has 4 colour channels: Red, Green, Blue and Alpha. It's the Alpha channel that determines the opacity/transparency.

[robertoHrvat]

Aha, I saw on net something similar story with AlphaChannel, but Kalasnikov tutorial is better

Thanks

[robertoHrvat]

I was try with AlphaChannel but it doesn't work or im do something wrong, Im not sure is alpha channel what i looking for, Maybe somebody was dont understand me, anyway there is pic what i talking about: (Transparent colored texture)

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/8442/texturetransred1paa.jpg
(Transparent red texture isnt made by me!)

And do anybody know how made it ?

[Lenyoga]

[late reply coming in]

Hi, just saw the topic now and don't know if you already solved it. The way I do it is to use Gimp (a freeware program) to create a simple texture (for glass I'd go with 64x64 or something like that) and use the toolbar to add the alpha channel. Then I use the Eraser tool to make it half-transparent - the last thing to do is to save it as filename.tga and convert it to .pac or .paa with texView (also available on OFPEC).  I hope that helps.

[robertoHrvat]

Yeah you are late  I know everything about it now.
btw. Its easier to save it as .paa directly from Photoshop, I reccomend you .pac .paa plug-in for CS5.

[Lenyoga]

Ah, that's interesting... I didn't know about the plugins. I'll take a look for some for Gimp now.