Hi,
I am using sprites to indicate something in the game. I want to show a circle so using paint.net I drew a circle and added the text. The background is black when I add this to my WED, that works fine except that I see a black little (ugly) rim around my cercular sign. The sprite is a TA file

Anyone know how I can get rid of that?
Thanks
Gerrit

TA file ?

You mean a tga file? Then you can make an alpha channel, copy the shape of the circle into the alpha channel, and there you go.

I don't know paint.net, and how to apply an alpha channel in it.

Here is a discussion of how to
apply alpha channel in tga!

Try going back to your TGA file and look VERY VERY closely at the edges of your circle and you
MAY find a circle of not-QUITE-black pixels around it.
This can be caused IF paint.net (never seen it myself) has anti-aliasing during 'fill' operations.

Make them evil pixels dead-black and all will be fine...

then creating in paint.net, first of all create a background layer, and fill it black. All other work do in other layers, then you done, save tga 32bit,compress (RLE). That work fine for me

Yes it is TGA (sorry about the typo) I did fill the background layer with black (0,0,0) but when I save it in 32 bit format RLE compressed I actually see the black background. If I save it "auto detect" and RLE, I don't see the background (wich is what I want)BUT I have that ugly black rim.

When I make the sprite translucent the black ungly border is still there but then you can barely see it.

Gerrit

upload the file, then we may understand your exact problem(and the reason) better.

Quadraxas,

Sorry but I don't know how to uplaod a file. Can you tell me how to do that?
Thanks
Gerrit

You can use Rapidshare, Mediafire or Z-Share.

Hi

I did upload the file at http://rapidshare.com/files/196226732/pole_2.tga.html

Thanks for helping me
Gerrit

It is like I said, look close at the edge pixels, they dont go from
true green STRAIGHT to dead black, they fade between green and black.

You'll need to find the setting in paint.net to stop it doing that, or
touch up the pixels manually.
Or try another paint program, its a simple image so it shouldnt be hard.