Texturing Questions

posted on August 13th, 2010, 7:49 pm

I'm making a transparency map for a texture using paint.  I've replaced all the lit areas with white for the texture, now, I want to replace all of the colors that are not white to black.  Is that possible in photoshop?  If so, how do I do it?

posted on August 14th, 2010, 2:22 pm

Can you select by color?  you can in gimp.  if you can, select the white color only, and invert the selection you should now be able to just paint over the whole thing, and yo will just skip over anything white.

posted on August 14th, 2010, 2:49 pm

Thanks.

PS:  I already finished it in paint, but I'll remember what to do next time I make a transparency map.

posted on August 24th, 2010, 3:19 pm

How do you make transparency maps? I would like to see this in hopes of making a glass sphere.

posted on August 24th, 2010, 3:28 pm

Well, in STA2, the transparency maps are used to lite the model up.  Not to make it transparent.

posted on August 24th, 2010, 4:27 pm

"transparency map" referes to alpha channel

posted on August 24th, 2010, 4:45 pm

transparent things would be related to the material settings

Why not just give a sphere a perminate cloak?

posted on August 24th, 2010, 5:11 pm

Use an A1 sod.