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[1v0ry_k1ng]

Here is a character set I have attempted to convert from BMP to transparent PNG, as I like their simplicity and readability.



Unfortunately, these appear in game with a black background instead of a transparent one.

I have mucked around with various transparency settings to no avail. The CLA character sets, also in my game, are transparent and working without issue.

Could someone please point me towards the method used to make these transparent ingame?

[Quietust]

If you're trying to make the floor visible beneath the unit, then you should know that that's impossible - no matter what, only one single tile can ever be displayed in a given location.

The only thing transparency does is allow a proper background color to be applied, such as brown for "prone", blue for "drowning", purple for "wrestling", or light blue for "projectile".

[1v0ry_k1ng]

I know -- my issue is that my colors.txt makes the background color dark tan grey, whilst the tileset has a background color of black, which looks silly.

[Quietust]

Your tileset image appears to be RGB, most likely with a full alpha channel - just for fun, try converting it to palette-based to make it use simple transparency data and see if it works any better. pngout should be able to do that automatically.

[1v0ry_k1ng]

that shrunk the files, and they still have a transparency layer, but now they just appear with white backgrounds ingame - looks even worse 

can anyone please help?

[1v0ry_k1ng]

Anyone? Sorry to bump but I am really eager to fix this!

[Nero1024]

Did you try setting the background color to hot pink (255,0,255)? What image editor are you using?

[GFXiNXS]

Does this help?

[1v0ry_k1ng]

Nope, those still appear with a black background for me.

Compared with CLA graphics, which have the transparent background (compare animals to dwarves):

[CLA]

Are the raws set to AS_IS or ADD_COLOR?

If all else fails, just give the background of your graphics the same value as the BLACK value of your colors.txt.