Custom faction question

**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.

**alpaca** · 03-18-2007, 11:05

Hmm which file did you edit to change the image on the bottom right of the battle interface?

Anyways, to switch channels, first select channels (green), then make the alpha channel (blue) visible, then make the RGB channels (red) invisible.

This will produce the following:

You can see that the image is now white where anything is visibile in-game and black where stuff is invisible.
To edit it, you'll also need to select the alpha channel (by clicking on it in the channels tab).