Some questions:

ive been changing the shield pattern for the roman infantry for my mod, as seen below. however, you will notice the back around the edges of the shield. how can i eliminate this?
i really like this shield design, if you look close enough you can even see the feather pattern for the wings!

https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/...rincipefp0.bmp

https://img152.imageshack.us/img152/...hastaticw8.jpg


also, how can I run my mod without replacing the whole rome file, i have a copy of the data folder, but edited?
the first question is at this point more important, thanks again for the help!

it must be alpha-channel, its lack; probably saved in wrong format. are you using GIMP? I heard it needs some setup for it..
I'm not skinner however;

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