Having problems with making tiles that dont fill every pixel in a 32x32 square work

[Zoltor]

It's like those small treasure chest icons that wont display properly, because it has a white background, is there a easy way to make RPG maker ignore the backs of a tile?

 

[Kes]

When you import them via Resource Manager, click the background colour and select 'Transparent'

Or you could remove the background in GIMP, Photoshop, paint.NET or whatever, and then you needn't worry about how they are imported.

 

[Zoltor]

When you import them via Resource Manager, click the background colour and select 'Transparent'

Or you could remove the background in GIMP, Photoshop, paint.NET or whatever, and then you needn't worry about how they are imported.

That extra options box for some reason, doesn't show up all the time when importing(infact It's downright rare), so that's not a option in this case.

 

[Kes]

In that case, you'll have to manually remove the background in an image program such as one of those I suggested.

 

[sawworm]

If it's .png and transparent background it should work.

 

[Zoltor]

In that case, you'll have to manually remove the background in an image program such as one of those I suggested.

Yea ok sigh, that's easier said then done, and been trying to do just that for hours now, with little-no success. Thanks anyway though..

 

[Zane]

Photoshop has that magic wand tool set the tolerance to 32 un check anti-alias if that's on and make sure its not on the locked background area if it is just copy the layer and it won't be. This works wonders if the background is just a solid color which I'm assuming it is. If not your gonna have to cut out everything manually. Should be about 5-15 seconds a sheet

 

[Andar]

The import box with the options in the resource manager is only skipped if the image file already contains transparency data - which means that you saved into a format that supports transparency, but didn't use or save transparency data.

Yea ok sigh, that's easier said then done, and been trying to do just that for hours now, with little-no success. Thanks anyway though..

Making something transparent is usually very easy in a good image program. Here is how it's done:
1) make a new picture with transparent background (preferably with the same pixel size of the image to be edited)


If your image program doesn't allow you to select whether the background of a new image is white or transparent upon creating the new image, then you can stop working with the program and start looking for a better one - because that means that the program itself doesn't support transparency, and nothing you do will ever create a transparent background when working with that specific program.


2) import the image to be edited as a new layer into the new image file


If the program doesn't support layers - see above


3) select eraser, make sure that the layer with the image is selected and erase all pixels that you want to be transparent


4) save as PNG


The two most important basic options of any medium or professional level image program are transparency and layers.


If your image program doesn't support those two functions, then scrap it - you will never be able to go beyond the most basic image editing with that program, and you'll only waste hours of working time if you try to make an image partially transparent with it.

 

[Zoltor]

Photoshop has that magic wand tool set the tolerance to 32 un check anti-alias if that's on and make sure its not on the locked background area if it is just copy the layer and it won't be. This works wonders if the background is just a solid color which I'm assuming it is. If not your gonna have to cut out everything manually. Should be about 5-15 seconds a sheet

Hm ok, that kind of worked, not perfect yet though. Thanks I guess I'll just screw with this for awhile, it should eventually come out properly.

To Andar: Hm ok, I'll try that

Edit: Um, I found the root of the problem, thanks all(lol evidently the whole transparant option box, is a png only feature, and I was saving them as jpeg lol)

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

JPG's doesn't support transparency... AFAIK...


PS: On the contrary, for me the box only appears when I import jpgs...