Still nothing...T.T

EDIT: Alright how about this, tell me the basic steps I need to do when editing the file and inserting whatever image(s) onto the texture...I think I'm skipping some option or doing something wrong. Like, when I activate the Alpha Mask, it had a window with a few options pop up, and I just left it alone. And everything on the saving options and all that.

That really wasn't necessary.

The screenshot you showed me is exactly what I see after applying the alpha mask. Do you have any other mods installed that work correctly to compare that yours is set up correctly?

Trust me--if you have never done it before you will have messed something up.  Keep plugging away at it and it will gradually come into focus.

Yup, that looks right.

This is what the Texture folder looks like for a functioning mod. Your path at the top should match exactly except for the mod name.

Okay, I thought that might happen. Basically if you don't have an alpha channel the game treats it as being completely 255 (or white when represented as greyscale). The alpha channel is team color, with the 0-255 alpha value in each pixel indicating how much the team color should be merged with the texture. Since its all 255, its all team color and none of the original texture.

For quick tests, you could just make a new image, paint it totally black, copy it, go to the texture, and use alpha mask again. Check use from clipboard, and the image should go totally transparent (I.e. no team color at all). This should allow you to see your changes.

For the final product, you'll probably need to find the extract channel plugin (that might be part of a package), get the original alpha channel as its own image, copy that and apply it to the finished RGB texture.

I won't lie, there are times when photoshop really seems worth the money.

Well its getting late for me...guess I'll toy with it some more, but I've been trying all sorts of stuff trying to get it work and I either make it orange-like with my image barely visible (or just solid orange for whatever reason, lol) or some weird darker color...T.T

I'm running out of things to try here....no clue what I'm doing wrong. *sighs* :/

Don't give up?

back in vanilla modding there needed to be one pixel of the alpha that was at full brightness otherwise the engine assumed the alpha was faulty and gave the alpha full brightness, and the bright pixel didnot need to be on the used part of the texture.

hope this helps

harpo

Alright, new problem...I'm almost done with everything too, go figure.

Advent's Starbase, when I save it normally like all the other files...it turns orange...I also noticed that the original doesn't have an Alpha channel...and overwriting the modded file with the original doesn't do anything either.

EDIT: Bleh, never mind...found a way around it, go figure. lol