The mistery of the tga files

[Monkwarrior]

Thats odd... when I save as .tga, I can safely preserve the alpha channel. I have Photoshop 5.5.... I don't think this is exactly the problem.

It seems that version 7.0 had a bug, because I had no option to select alpha channel when the format tga was selected in "Save as".

This is from Adobe webpage:

The Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1 update fixes a number of problems discovered after Photoshop 7.0 was released. 

The most significant fixes in the 7.0.1 release include the following: 

• Photoshop now saves alpha transparency data in Targa files in the same way it did in previous versions.

And I've remarked this problem by now!!!

[Bwian]

Eek! Thats a nasty little bug ... but at least they do have a fix for it! There are some advantages to having an out of date version then

[Monkwarrior]

Well, finally I think I understand what happened.
This is what is seen when the wrong files are opened with Photoshop CS.


The alpha channel is there, but in the saving process, the Photoshop 7.0 messed up the channels in the visible part. However, the program opened alpha channel as part of the visible one and all the psicodelic surroundings were hidden.
At least the problem is found and in way to solution.
Thanks.

[lt1956]

No I had the same problem. I think its a Glitch in the game that Messages dont have transparency. It only happens in the messages, this happened to me in SPQR.

I dont think its a software issue at all but a game bug. If you notice all of CAs cards are Cream background that Matches Perfectly message backgrounds.

I think this is normal and was only noticed when making cards using 3Dmax. I fixed it by making all the cards like yours to have the same background as the others.

Hope this helps.

Lt