White edges after trimming art.

MidgetMage55 · 01-08-11, 02:55 PM

Basically when i trim a .tga file to modify art I end up with white edges on some things. Artifacts if that sounds more accurate. I have no idea why it is happening nor how to make it go away.

Example:

If you look at the red bar filling in on the left side of the image you can see what I'm talking about. (it appears like that in game as well so its not just in the screen shot)

I literally took the base image, copied it and chopped it up simply erasing elements I did not need. Afterward I scaled the image as needed for the addon I'm using.

The element I took it from was made the same way but the issue isn't there.

I'm using the latest version of GIMP for editing. Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?

Landrell · 01-08-11, 03:08 PM

Midget, if you give me some time hon, I'll be more than happy to make your version of the bars along with the red filler as well. I'll start work on it later tonight so you won't have to go through that trouble.

MidgetMage55 · 01-08-11, 03:18 PM

I appreciate it. I don't mind doing the work as well. Especially if it inspires someone. =)

I try to give back a little to where I get inspired from.

EDIT:

I have another idea if you are feeling artistically frisky.

I thought about taking the glow elements from the UF art and making a red version of just those parts to throw in to a panel perhaps so that when a player has aggro the color changes. Not sure if there is a script for kgpanels that will do that however. And border Textures seem to be rather specific in design.

Sythalin · 01-08-11, 03:23 PM

Stop enabling his laziness. :P

Landrell · 01-08-11, 03:30 PM

Originally Posted by MidgetMage55

I appreciate it. I don't mind doing the work as well. Especially if it inspires someone. =)

I try to give back a little to where I get inspired from.

EDIT:

I have another idea if you are feeling artistically frisky.

I thought about taking the glow elements from the UF art and making a red version of just those parts to throw in to a panel perhaps so that when a player has aggro the color changes. Not sure if there is a script for kgpanels that will do that however. And border Textures seem to be rather specific in design.

Actually, that doesn't sound like a bad idea. I've been wondering that too for a little bit, but I think it's going to require two different textures, one red and one blue to pull it off. I'm sure there is a script laying about somewhere that can be used for this.

@Chaos: It gives me something to do, otherwise, I'd let him go full tilt!

Waky · 01-08-11, 03:49 PM

Did you trim the mask as well? Otherwise it'll just show white-space like that.

MidgetMage55 · 01-08-11, 04:14 PM

No mask that I am aware of. Only things showing in the elements list is the art layer and an alpha channel.

If that were the case wouldn't i have a HUGE white area? I basically take the main piece it comes from and erase everything that i don't need. So trimming is not an entirely accurate statement on my part.

After wards i just use a rectangle select and move it to a new canvas and scale the image before anchoring it.

Ill take a look at the tools in GIMP however and see if there is something along that line that i am missing. I freely admit I'm not terribly well versed in image software.