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Lord Kain
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posted 12 December 2001 13:45     Click Here to See the Profile for Lord Kain   Click Here to Email Lord Kain        Reply w/Quote   
No problem... it was very funny

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Apocalypse Demon
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posted 12 December 2001 16:53     Click Here to See the Profile for Apocalypse Demon   Click Here to Email Apocalypse Demon        Reply w/Quote   
Well, I've always had a problem with dc6con. This might sound newbish but I can never make the image transparent. Every time I make the .dc6 from the pcx or bitmap, there is that black outline square around my item graphic when it should be transparent. I read saying you have to type -transcol 0 or something but it never works. Could someone possible give me a little more insight so I can stop pulling out my hair because I have some really cool graphics from stargazer but am having trouble making them transparent. Thanks.

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NefariusDX
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posted 12 December 2001 19:02     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
make sure the back ground is transcol 0 means that your background actually must be RGB 0,0,0 if the "black" is not pure black as backgrounf its not a RGB value of 0,0,0 and therfore -transcol 0 wont have any effect.

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masakari
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posted 13 December 2001 00:31     Click Here to See the Profile for masakari   Click Here to Email masakari        Reply w/Quote   
Yes if there are only 1 pixel (0,0,1) it will be black and not transparent

You can try to cut away all around the picture and fill it with (0,0,0) or in paint shop pro you can choose how sensitively the colorrange is which can be overwritten by using the fill-tool.
If your picture is bright than you can choose a great colorrange if your picture is darker than you should try the optimal colorrange. You can select it on the floating-tooloptions.

Hope you understand it, i haven't PsP here and can't remember the right name for the function.

cu Masakari

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NefariusDX
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posted 13 December 2001 02:07     Click Here to See the Profile for NefariusDX   Click Here to Email NefariusDX        Reply w/Quote   Visit NefariusDX's Homepage!
i do it in a faster way (i think its faster )

1. load the .pcx file into your image editor
2. reduce colors to 256
3. apply d2 pallete
4. use the color replace tool, config it so it will replace the current background color with pure black
5. fix the areas of the image that go F*cked up (dont fill them with pure black or you pic will have holes in when inside the game)
6. save file (LOL)
7. run dc6con thru run in start menu
8. type dc6con "filename.pcx" -transcol 0
9. use psidc6 to test it b4 you import it into the game (MUCH FASTER)
10. if it works import it into the game.

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masakari
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posted 13 December 2001 03:45     Click Here to See the Profile for masakari   Click Here to Email masakari        Reply w/Quote   
Question: If we/i/you load the d2pallete than the picture will not automatically reduce the colordepth??
Because i must not set it manually to 265 and it works.

I don't say a way to convert a picture, i only say the 2 ways (i know) to prevent the black area around the picture (point 4 and 5).

But it will help Lord Kain

cu Masakari

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