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CC4 · Post by **CC4** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:41 am

Ah... 1.03 with .tga. Should hopefully make this all moot.

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:07 am

CC4 wrote:Sickle is probably sick of certain "panel elements" uploaded to the Reaktor user library.

Yeah, you got that right..'panel elements' my ass..

scuzzphut · Post by **scuzzphut** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:57 am

to get a seperate mask file - I've been doing this.

export image from knobman as png - will use this for the image.
export image from knobman as tga with alpha - will get the mask from this
with the tga, delete the RGB channels, leaving only the alpha channel
convert the image to grayscale
save this as PNG to use as mask.

asseca · Post by **asseca** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:02 am

ImageMagick's convert (command line utility) can convert directly from any .PNG with Alpha-Transparency to .TGA, keeping the Alpha-layer intact ...

ImageMagick also includes a graphics viewer which correctly displays .PNG and .TGA Alpha-Transparency

Rune L-H · Post by **Rune L-H** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:54 am

Sickle wrote:The impression I'm getting is I can't make a working alpha channel with these pre-rendered .pngs files. If I try and make an alpha channel, I'm unable to make a good selection against the background. I wish Reaktor loaded .png's..

*sigh*

Anyways, cool stuff guys!

I haven't worked with Reaktor, but I'd say the method suggested earlier by chuck death and others should work. Here's a quick video showing one way of creating an alpha from a PNG with transparency in Photoshop.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Rune

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:05 pm

Sickle wrote:Right, if Knobman outputs in .tga format I have no problems I guess.

hmm, i just want to know if the .tga file directly exported from KnobMan work on Reaktor?
did any one comfirm?
i implemented .tga export but not yet tested on Reaktor...

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:14 pm

I'll check later when I get off work.

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:19 pm

Download was small, so I went ahead and grabbed it.

It works great! Problem solved!

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:25 pm

Hmm, spoke too fast; some work and some don't.

edit: they work; accidentally exported as .bmp's.

This is very cool, yay!

g200kg · Post by **g200kg** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:43 pm

Sickle wrote:Hmm, spoke too fast; some work and some don't.

edit: they work; accidentally exported as .bmp's.

This is very cool, yay!

Thank you!!

One of my worries has been solved!

chuck death · Post by **chuck death** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:49 pm

Glad you got things sorted Sickle!

CC4 wrote:I'm speaking from Photoshop knowledge, so I don't know how much they stripped down CS... I'm assuming this should be exactly the same though.

I think you're confusing the versions; CS is the full version of Photoshop (currently CS3), the stripped down version is Photoshop Elements 6. Actually there is now also a kind of "super" photoshop too called "CS3 Extended" that features MatLab integration, Image analysis tools and other high end stuff.

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:14 pm

Yeah, I'm using CS 2 here. Its a real clunker. Same old RAM leaks PS has always had..

CC4 · Post by **CC4** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:35 pm

chuck death wrote:I think you're confusing the versions; CS is the full version of Photoshop (currently CS3), the stripped down version is Photoshop Elements 6. Actually there is now also a kind of "super" photoshop too called "CS3 Extended" that features MatLab integration, Image analysis tools and other high end stuff.

Yea... I was thinking Elements.

bootsie · Post by **bootsie** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:25 am

My retro knob collection is still growing

scuzzphut · Post by **scuzzphut** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:39 am

bootsie - those are really nice

KnobMan, the VSTGUI AnimationKnob bitmap generator