dds image all transparent/black

Hi everyone,

I just searched forum, and read the texturing tut's but couldn't find an answer, so sorry if this has been asked before.

If i open any .dds file in gimp (using dds plugin) it is all or mostly transparent (or black using Irfanview). I can't seem to find a way to remove this transparancy to edit the actual texture. I would love to add a shiny cockpit to my tec interceptor, thus edit the da.dds texture, but it seems to be all transparent/black.

Am I doing something terribly wrong? I tried removing the transparency layer in gimp, to the effect of the image becoming all white. So this has not helped either.

Any insight would be greatly apprechiated. Thanks,

Pantha

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You might try the following in Gimp...

Open the DDS image then choose Colors/Components/Decompose... into a RGBA layers.

This will allow you to edit the Red/Green/Blue/Alpha independantly.

When you are finished use Colors/Components/Compose... back into a RGBA image.

You can then save the image back to DDS at this point.

Here's a good resource on texturing if you don't already have it. http://soase.weebly.com/texturing.html.

Note the section dealing with the data channels for explanations on the Red/Green/Blue/Alpha in Sins.

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Hey, thanks for the swift reply!

This really helped, in fact it was the missing link. You basically helped me fix all the texturing issues I used to have with this game, so thank you very much.

Pantha

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