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Transparent backgrounds on Sprites

Discussion in '2D' started by CyVirus, Nov 18, 2014.

  1. CyVirus

    CyVirus

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    I've looked everywhere and done everything I could think of, but I'm still unable to make a 2D sprite's white background transparent.

    Either transparency in sprites absolutely hate me or I just can't do anything right...

    Please, I need help with this. This has been frustrating me for a while now.
     
    CyVirus, Nov 18, 2014
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  2. Runetass

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    What you could do is deleting the parts that need to be transparent, in Photoshop (for example having your sprite on a separate PS layer, and having no background), and then export it as PNG with default settings.
     
    Runetass, Nov 18, 2014
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  3. clownhunter

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    I second Gnur's statement about just removing the white part of the image altogether. I just wanted to add that instead of using Photoshop, http://www.getpaint.net/download.html is free and supports transparency as well.
     
    clownhunter, Nov 20, 2014
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  4. BrandyStarbrite

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    Yeah. What they both said is true.
    And you could use Gimp to do the same transparency thing too.
     
    BrandyStarbrite, Nov 21, 2014
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  5. CyVirus

    CyVirus

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    Thank you all so much. I'll try all of those as soon as I can. I'll let you guys know how it went. Thanks again
     
    CyVirus, Nov 23, 2014
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  6. BrandyStarbrite

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    No probs!
    Glad we could help! :D
     
    BrandyStarbrite, Nov 24, 2014
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