Cor'e =) Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 P.N 305 & 307, WinXP SP2, Cannot seem to get the transparent backgrounds to save in BMP files... Please help! I have a small BMP that has transparency, i have created two more similar in P.N, but when i save the two new ones i get no transparency, when i load the first one and then just save it again it also has no transparency... what's up? I have the EdHarvey & Icon add-Ins, i updated to 307 to see if the issue still exists and it does. =( Please let me know, cheers! =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Man Dan Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 BMP files, to my knowledge, do not support transparency. If you need it, PNG, GIF, and TIF do support transparency. Quote I am not a mechanism, I am part of the resistance; I am an organism, an animal, a creature, I am a beast. ~ Becoming the Archetype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cor'e =) Posted May 19, 2007 Author Share Posted May 19, 2007 I started with a transparent BMP, i was trying to create more of them. Now i only get white or black opaque backgrounds, even if i start with a transparent one. I'm making them for a program that only accepts BMPs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Man Dan Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 Well, as I said (and I did some research this time ), BMP files do not have native support for transparency. There are several hacks people have developed outlined here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/defau ... ansblt.asp Try Googling BMP Transparency for more. Quote I am not a mechanism, I am part of the resistance; I am an organism, an animal, a creature, I am a beast. ~ Becoming the Archetype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helio Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 Dan, there is a way in which an alpha channel can be stored in a seperate file, also PS and Flash now support a 32-bit version with integrated alpha channel. Quote v An excellent open–source strategy game—highly recommended. "I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cor'e =) Posted May 22, 2007 Author Share Posted May 22, 2007 @CMD: It looks like two issues to me, one is that Paint.net does not support transparent bitmaps; and two paint.net changes bitmaps by saving them. The article is from the MS Windows 3.1 days, but it shows good info for programmers. I did some looking into issue #2 and it appears the Paint.Net automatically saves my 256 color bitmaps to 24bit color and that is corrupting the display of my 256 color bitmaps. However, MS Paint does this too if you save my 256 bitmaps into 24bit bitmaps, but it know not to do that. I do not know why Paint.Net programmers do not give us the options of color depth for saving bitmaps like MS Paint does, maybe someday. Regarding the article, i will look into how my bitmaps are transparent, because they are transparent and i need to make more somehow. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkbark00 Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 What program are you using the transparent Bitmaps in? If you are dealing with 256 color .bmp's then the program you are viewing them in probably has something that converts a certain color to transparent for its own purposes... What happens when you view these images with a browser(IE,Firefox), or build them into a webpage where you would need to see the Bg around/behind them? Is the transparency retained? Quote Take responsibility for your own intelligence. 😉 -Rick Brewster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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