Gez
Why don't I have a custom title by now?!
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NaturalTvventy said:
I'd like to make some new titles for my WAD but whenever I make my own (using paint) they lose their transparency and turn into blocks. How do you make transparent titles?
Not with MS Paint.
If you use a lump editor such as WinTex, XWE or SLumpEd, they have a convention of turning cyan pixels into transparent pixels when they convert the picture to the Doom format. This is the source of the widespread, but erroneous, belief that cyan is transparent in Doom. It's not transparent in Doom, it's transparent in XWE and co; provided you use such tools to import the picture in a wad and convert it to Doom's graphic format.
Some ports can work with other image formats as well, such as PNG, JPG, TGA, DDS, etc. Cyan will not help you there. If you use such a format, you need to apply transparency to the image itself (provided the format does support transparency, PNG does but JPG doesn't for example); and that's not something you can do with MS Paint; use Paint.NET or the GIMP for that instead.
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03-07-10 18:41 
