32bit .tga

Hashmark13 · Post by **Hashmark13** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 3:07 am

argh!! i cant figure out how to save my .tga image as a 32bit one... i click save and it dont give me that option.. it just saves.. well it asks me to name it first.. but thats all.

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 7:17 am

What program are you using?

MPowell1944 · Post by **MPowell1944** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 2:28 pm

If you are using Photoshop, you can't just save your current .tga file. You have to do a File-SaveAs and overwrite your current one in order to get that option dialog box.

Hashmark13 · Post by **Hashmark13** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 9:39 pm

thats what ive been doing powell... it doesnt ask me still!!!

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Wed Apr 16, 2003 6:41 am

Maybe your images is not the color depth that could make a 32bit tga: e.g. greyscale or indicated colours (don't know what it's called in English photoshop), because the source was a gif: Try to change the mode into RGB before saving. And: If there's no alpha channel (anything transparent) you won't need a tga, and could save it as jpeg aswell.
Don't forget: Then, you will still have to call it mypic.tga in the shader, although the file is named mypic.jpg

Hashmark13 · Post by **Hashmark13** » Fri Apr 18, 2003 6:41 pm

bah????

the only thing i could make sence out of that was the shaders, i know how to make shaders and to make it a jpeg. i need it to be a tga because there is invisible parts in it. argh

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 8:10 pm

You are using Photoshop?
Your image has transparent (=invisible) parts. Do you see in these parts the checked background? This is possible if the visible parts are on a layer which is not the background, e.g. 'layer 1'. If so, delete the background layer. Now all parts of the remaining layers that should become invisible must be cleared, then you can see the mentioned checked background.
Now look at the titelbar. It should look similar to this one:

Most important is this 'RGB'!
'File'/'Save As' this image as a Targa Bitmap, and you ought to be asked what colour depth you like...

Hashmark13 · Post by **Hashmark13** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:59 pm

bah ok i went to new image and it gave me option of the how many bits or what ever the highest it went was 24!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i have my computer running the screen at 32bit color so it i think i could get photo shop to do it!...

im using Jasc Photo Shop 7 Try and Buy (almost outta time

where can i get a free one) so i dunno if it is the software or what

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 11:36 pm

From JASC is Paintshop Pro, Photoshop comes from Adobe. There's a Paintshop Pro 8 Try & Buy, but whether that supports 32-bit Targa graphics, I dunno. Maybe ask at www.jasc.com

Else, I don'T know what to do: Photoshop is not free, and which shareware or freeware product would work, I don'T know either

Anyone else?

Hashmark13 · Post by **Hashmark13** » Sat May 03, 2003 5:10 am

Hashmark13 · Post by **Hashmark13** » Sat May 03, 2003 7:28 am

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Sat May 03, 2003 9:15 am

if you haven't done already, i would ask JASC whether PSP8's capable of doing these 32bit Targas, transparency and so on, before spending money? There's also a try n buy version! Shouldn't you check it out before buying it? Maybe an older version of Photoshop (like Version 6) wouldn't cost much more or even less and it would be perfect!? Maybe you should try at ebay?

Hashmark13 · Post by **Hashmark13** » Sat May 03, 2003 6:57 pm

nevermind

moderators keep changing my posts that dont even mean anything bad but i dont wanna get them mad by keep changing them back to what i originally said

Hashmark13 · Post by **Hashmark13** » Tue May 06, 2003 9:53 pm

Ok i have photo shop 8... the maximum bits i can save up to is 24 still

what the hell is going on??? where can i change this visual settings or something this is bs

i got mad and actualy used the help file... here is what it had to say...

Color Depth The number of colors that a pixel can display. Each pixel’s color information is stored in a certain number of computer bits—from 1 bit to 24 bits. In a 1-bit image, each pixel can display only one of two colors (black or white). In a 24-bit image, each pixel can display one of 16 million colors. Images with a color depth of 16 million colors look best because they contain the most colors, but they also require the most memory to store and edit. Not all computer monitors can display 16 million colors, so some file formats limit the number of supported colors. For example, GIF images, a popular format for the Web, contain up to 256 colors (8-bit depth).

Many of Paint Shop Pro’s effect and correction commands work on 16 million color images only. Therefore, its best to create most images using 16 million colors. When you have finished working on the image, you can decrease its color depth and save it in another format.

i have a Geforce 4... i think that can handle 32bit pictures hehe so wtf?

wacko · Post by **wacko** » Tue May 06, 2003 11:22 pm

Too bad, PSP8 then isn't able to save 32bit Targa images! I'm very sorry that I gave you the tip too late to ask JASC whether it's capable

And the problem is NOT your graphics adapter or your monitor, or your visual settings, but PSP8 itself. Let's say e.g. notepad won't save text in another colour than black, no matter how your display settings are!

A 32bit Targa image contains a 24bit picture + 1 alpha channel (which is the 8bit rest). So your graphics adapter / monitor wouldn't need to display more than a 24bit image, so this is of no importance at all!

Maybe, you should email JASC, how they think you could realise a 32bit Targa image... They might suggest a solution?!