Skinning question

[Compans57]

I started doing a VIIB skin a couple of years ago and have forgotten how to do something simple.

I need to use default skins as templates.

I try opening them in Gimp and they view as the texture with an alpha channel on top, so you can't see the actual coloured skin. As it shows as one layer, if a use the 'remove alpha channel' command it creates a very greyed out version. Kind of like a specular map.

Can someone remind me how to remove the alpha channel?

Thanks.

[kapuhy]

Originally Posted by Compans57

I started doing a VIIB skin a couple of years ago and have forgotten how to do something simple.

I need to use default skins as templates.

I try opening them in Gimp and they view as the texture with an alpha channel on top, so you can't see the actual coloured skin. As it shows as one layer, if a use the 'remove alpha channel' command it creates a very greyed out version. Kind of like a specular map.

Can someone remind me how to remove the alpha channel?

Thanks.

I'm using Polish Gimp version so actual options might be named a bit different, but:

In pane with layer list:
- right click layer and select "create layer mask"
- select "carry over alpha channel of the layer"
- again right click on new mask that appeared, select "display layer mask"
- you will see alpha layer only now. In color options in menu above, select "brightness and contrast", take contrast to minimum and brightness to maximum until you have pure white screen
- right click the maks in layer list again, select "apply layer mask"

voila, your image now has no transparency. You can remove alpha layer now without losing anything in the image.

[Compans57]

Originally Posted by kapuhy

I'm using Polish Gimp version so actual options might be named a bit different, but:

In pane with layer list:
- right click layer and select "create layer mask"
- select "carry over alpha channel of the layer"
- again right click on new mask that appeared, select "display layer mask"
- you will see alpha layer only now. In color options in menu above, select "brightness and contrast", take contrast to minimum and brightness to maximum until you have pure white screen
- right click the maks in layer list again, select "apply layer mask"

voila, your image now has no transparency. You can remove alpha layer now without losing anything in the image.

Thankyou Kapuhy!

You explained all of this to me 2 years ago but I lost the info. Worked perfectly for me.