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Made a tattoo but this black icon shows up for it even though the tattoo works fine?

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15th Apr 2012, 03:06 AM	Made a tattoo but this black icon shows up for it even though the tattoo works fine? #1
SenPain Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 77 Thanks: 859 in 5 Posts 6 Achievements	Hi, I'm working on a set of tattoos and the tattoo shows up great, looks perfect but the Icon itself is like black with a darker bit for the tattoo design and I don't know how to fix it... Any help would be great, thanks!!

15th Apr 2012, 03:39 AM	#2
daluved1 Deducing the Contradictions Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 2,810 Thanks: 82944 in 147 Posts 39 Achievements View My Journal	This usually happens to me when I leave the alpha visible before exporting my dds image. Try saving your dds with RGB mode in view.
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15th Apr 2012, 05:06 AM	#3
SenPain Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 77 Thanks: 859 in 5 Posts 6 Achievements	It looks like you make accessory tattoos, but I do the Amb ones, does that make a difference, do you know? eta, for some reason it just didn't click with what you were saying and I got confused when looking for examples of your tattoos [I forget that they are listed under makeup]. =/ I've also tried what you said it it didn't work for me but I'm just going to start over with a new .dds and try and see what I'm doing wrong. Thanks for your help sorry that I'm freaking dumb ._.
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15th Apr 2012, 12:31 PM	#4
CmarNYC Ms. Byte Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2,670 Thanks: 22315 in 144 Posts 21 Achievements View My Journal	Did you have a first version of the tattoo that was all black? Once the thumb is generated it's not updated unless you delete the CAS thumbnails package in the thumbnails folder in your Documents EA folder.

15th Apr 2012, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by CmarNYC

Did you have a first version of the tattoo that was all black? Once the thumb is generated it's not updated unless you delete the CAS thumbnails package in the thumbnails folder in your Documents EA folder.

All the other thumbnails will regenerate, though right? It's just like a chache?

16th Apr 2012, 12:51 PM	#6
CmarNYC Ms. Byte Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2,670 Thanks: 22315 in 144 Posts 21 Achievements View My Journal	Yes, it's a cache and all the thumbnails will regenerate.

29th Apr 2012, 11:42 PM	#7
SenPain Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 77 Thanks: 859 in 5 Posts 6 Achievements	Thank you both, I finally got it to work!!

30th May 2012, 11:55 PM	#8
SenPain Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 77 Thanks: 859 in 5 Posts 6 Achievements	I thought this issue was resolved, but on a new set tattoos the same thing is happening, and not only that, but even after I get rid of the CAS Thumbnails, it's still happening, tattoo shows up on the body fine though...=/ Any advice?

31st May 2012, 01:10 AM	#9
daluved1 Deducing the Contradictions Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 2,810 Thanks: 82944 in 147 Posts 39 Achievements View My Journal	I stand by original suggestion. When you save your dds in Photoshop/Gimp/etc, do you have the alpha visible? I had this problem all the time when I first started making tattoos. I finally figured out it only happened when I saved my dds when the alpha channel visible in my photo editor, because that usually was the last thing I'd edit before exporting my image. But, if I saved my dds when the normal RGB mode is visible, then I had the proper thumbnail. See if that makes a difference?
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31st May 2012, 01:42 AM	#10
SenPain Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 77 Thanks: 859 in 5 Posts 6 Achievements	The Alpha Channel or the Alpha Layer? I'm a little confused. =/

31st May 2012, 10:51 AM	#11
whiterider Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,626 Thanks: 27798 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	The alpha channel - there is no alpha layer (or at least if there is, it's for your benefit, the game doesn't use it).
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31st May 2012, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by whiterider

The alpha channel - there is no alpha layer (or at least if there is, it's for your benefit, the game doesn't use it).

huuuuh.... So don't have the alpha channel visible? Won't that make the entire tattoo invisible?
(I've read tons of tutorials, but somehow I'm still a little fuzzy on channels.)

31st May 2012, 08:58 PM	#13
BloomsBase Mad Poster Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3,913 Thanks: 1559 in 18 Posts 11 Achievements	Think i posted this ages ago but tattoo's use a diffrent texture format as all other stuff. Im not going to look it up as i totally got neglected at the time. export a original tattoo texture and open it with a tool that can read the correct format(it is how i did it)

31st May 2012, 09:06 PM	#14
whiterider Oh, My! Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 14,626 Thanks: 27798 in 63 Posts 30 Achievements View My Journal	Whether or not the channel is visible in your graphics editor doesn't affect whether or not it's there. The game will use it, either way. Bear in mind that's invisible as in clicking the little eye icon next to the channel - not as in erasing the whole alpha channel!
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31st May 2012, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by whiterider

Whether or not the channel is visible in your graphics editor doesn't affect whether or not it's there. The game will use it, either way.

Bear in mind that's invisible as in clicking the little eye icon next to the channel - not as in erasing the whole alpha channel!

huh, I always thought if the alpha was invisible the game wouldn't see it and thus I would have no tattoo. =|

Starting to realize that it's probably a miracle that I got my tattoos to work before, lol, thank you~

ETA: For some reason a few things said here didn't quite click for me till now.

Now I feel dumb and slow, but very, very glad I asked! I learned a lot, thank you all so much!

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