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Originally posted by psychogears
no idea.  But I'd like to know too, maybe I can use it.
-TJ
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Based on the screenshots that you've posted, it looks like whatever program you use is automatically making an alpha channel.
In Photoshop, I've been doing a lot of alterations to my alpha channels the hard way, just drawing in black and white. It's tedious but the end result looks better than what you get by just auto selecting the parts you want to be transparent then saving the selection as an alpha channel.
For instance, If you change the alpha channel in wnd_bg_light_rock.tga to fully transparent, you can have transparent windows just like in the old interface. One thing I tried was just having a symbol with everything else transparent, but found it hard to read the chat window.
I think it was a good idea for them to use alpha transparency, even if it was a pain to learn.