Custom faction question

**alpaca** · 03-12-2007, 02:14

Originally Posted by Zain

i haven't tried it on another faction, but 22 and so on worked fine on them. I even tried to move on to 24 and added my symbol and it did the same thing. Seems like edited files don't work or something.

Did you think of editing the alpha layer to enable transparency for your new banner (i.e. if it's all black, it won't be visible)?

**Zain** · 03-12-2007, 03:54

yes, i have, but i haven't and the banners are black. But right now I'm just trying to get this certain thing work, the symbols...

**alpaca** · 03-12-2007, 15:47

Well what I meant is that if the banner is all black in the alpha layer, it won't be shown because it's transparent. If you look at the other banners you'll see that the alpha layer is white where the banner appears.
So in fact, you have to edit the alpha layer to make your new banner visible.

**Zain** · 03-12-2007, 22:57

ah, i must've not understood that concept before. Would you just refresh me on what file i must edit? I don't want to mess this up... Thanks man.

**alpaca** · 03-14-2007, 16:08

Well in the symbols6.tga file, open it with Photoshop, go to channels, make the alpha channel visible and the RGB channels invisible and you should see what I mean.

**Zain** · 03-15-2007, 02:52

okay

**Zain** · 03-17-2007, 23:15

I still don't know what to do. I tried to make the alpha layer invisible with Adobe Photoshop and the RGB layer visible, but I don't know how. Here are some screenshots so you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Here I'm showing the city with the blank banner and the faction symbol which is set to the saxons symbol.

Here are the black banners and textureless soldiers on the battlefield, which I don't know how to fix either.

I hate to be so stupid... but once I learn how to do this once I'll never forget.

Thanks.