Custom ecb textures...

[Seerah]

I'm trying to use these textures in ecb. They're saved as .tga, put in the ecb\Textures folder, and I added them to both lists in the textures.lua exactly as the others.

Now here's my problem: They show up in the list of textures to choose from, but they are either displayed as a previously selected texture (like Perl or Banto) or blank.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[Fin]

Originally Posted by Seerah I'm trying to use these textures in ecb. They're saved as .tga, put in the ecb\Textures folder, and I added them to both lists in the textures.lua exactly as the others. Now here's my problem: They show up in the list of textures to choose from, but they are either displayed as a previously selected texture (like Perl or Banto) or blank. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

You've probably got the alpha channels wrong. This guide tells you exactly what you need to do to prepare TAG files for use in WoW:

- http://www.edowner.net/Texture-Tutorial/

Hope that's the problem; if not good luck figuring out what it is!

cheers,

- Fin

[Seerah]

Ooh, I set up alpha channels on my textures that had some transparency, but not on this one. I'll try that and see if it fixes the issue.

Thanks!

[Silverchild]

wow, really nice textures you got here. If you ever figure it out, mind putting them available for download?

[Seerah]

Nope, that didn't work... (I'm using Photoshop Elements, but I already managed to add an alpha layer to another texture to make parts of it transparent in-game...)

I hadn't tried an alpha layer because I was under the impression that you only needed an alpha layer if you wanted transparent areas. I already ported a texture without an alpha layer (the texture this bar I'm working with came from) into WoW and it works fine as a background... When you suggested it, I thought that maybe ecb wanted an alpha layer for it to work. But I guess that isn't the case...

Does anyone else have any ideas?

[Seerah]

Originally Posted by Silverchild wow, really nice textures you got here. If you ever figure it out, mind putting them available for download?

I actually downloaded it from here: http://www.wowtextures.com/

It's the top border of a background panel texture. I thought it would be neat to use that border as the casting bar texture in ecb. I might release this as a skin to my Seerah's Suitcase UI.

[Silverchild]

well that would be pretty cool, since I have no clue on how to change it myself.

[Zyonin]

Personally I have found that using The GIMP produces .tga files that WoW friendly (this is going from .jpg or .png to .tga). Just save your file (add the .tga extension) and save using The GIMP's default settings.

[Seerah]

I could give that a try... Like I said, I cropped that texture from another one that is already being used in the game. The panel (that this is a border on) is being used in my eePanels behind my chat. All I did then is crop it to only show the border so that I could use that in eCastingBar. I'm just confused that the original texture works but what I linked above doesn't... So I was wondering if it had something to do with ecb or whatever....

[Neuro]

The problem is that the texture is not a valid texture size. Textures in WOW have to be a power of 2 on each side, i.e. 256x16, 128x32, etc. Yours, that I can see, is 315x30. You'd have to make it 256x32 or something along those lines to make it work.

[Seerah]

Aha! I forgot about that!! I'll try it.

[Seerah]

Yay! It worked! Here's how it looks so far...