Having problems with textures not showing up

[lonewolf_kai]

I've been trying to recreate the spine textures as seen on Kesqui's dragon and have taken the advice given seen here: http://community.istaria.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=25781

But for some reason the textures are not showing up. I had saved three files because I'm not sure which ones were the correct ones. Following the Texture Problems post of Artemis where he was altering the spines, I saved the dragon_u_sk02_head00_muscle, and dragon_u_sk02_head00_base, and the dragon_u_sk02_cbase (I think; it's the third file with the other two that is red tinted), which is the scale type I think I use on my current dragon.

I converted to TGA files with AGH Viewer; made my erasures in GIMP2 (sort of like Photoshop), saving the file as a TGA again; then placed the command lines to the Pref_players file to convert the TGA files and placed the textures in resources_override/characters/characters/dragon_u/clothing.

I can see the textures files being converted and indeed in my file, they have been converted to AGH, but they aren't showing up on my dragon. I thought perhaps I just had done the wrong scale type, however when I create a new dragon and flip through the different scale types, none are changed there either. I also tried to save my edits as a PNG, but that didn't help either.

Is there something I'm missing here?

[lonewolf_kai]

I think I might've figured it out after having looked through a lot of posts. A simple deletion of the textures does not work. I thought since GIMP places an alpha background when you load a picture up, it would save with it, but it doesn't. You have to actually put in a color and then alpha it.

I tried it with black, but all that did was place a black texture onto the spines. I'll try a grey and then white and see if that helps. I'm just thrill I finally got the texture edits working.

I'm still learning how to put alphas in as well, so any tips would be appreciated.

[lonewolf_kai]

Just figured out the problem. I had to remove the agh convert command after the launcher convereted the png's. Once I removed the command, the textures show up. That was confusing, but at least its working now.

[lonewolf_kai]

Actually, you have to delete the old png files out of the override file, not the command. I'll get it right one day.

[Racktor]

Im glad you found the solution and sorry that i didnt reply earlier ^^;;

[lonewolf_kai]

No need to apologize at all. I just couldn't figure it out at first.