[Freeciv] Re: Tileset making/Image conversion

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:35:10PM +0200, Cronos wrote:
> 
> OK, I give up. For few days I'm trying to make a tileset. Everything's fine,
> making .tilespec and .spec files, but I can't make graphics! Well, I can,
> but the background of units, cities in the game is black, not transparent. I
> tried many image converters (png2bmp, Irfan, Sea, even ImageMagick didn't
> work). First, I convert existing units.png into .bmp. I then edit it and
> convert back into .png, run Freeciv and it's always the same: black, not
> transparent units background. Any ideas?

Does .bmp has support for transparency? Why don't you use a image
program which understands .png as a native format? pnmtopng for
example has a "-transparent color" option. Also convert(1) which is
part of ImageMagick has a "-transparency color" option.

        Raimar

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