Brown sprite backgrounds

[AccurateNoodle]

hello, i've been using tiles and sprites from this site https://www.reinerstilesets.de/graphics/2d-grafiken/2d-humans/

 

Thing is, all the brownish backgrounds show up in-game. Why

 

Is there like an "Alpha is transparent" option somewhere?

[Giligis]

You have to make them transparent, and remove the background. Its easy to do so, use Paint.NET or Gimp. I personally prefer Gimp. Use the "Magic Wand" tool, and hit Delete on your keyboard, easy way to remove that background and make it transparent. 

[Giligis]

Hope it helped

[AccurateNoodle]

thank you for the quick answer my brotha. you must know de wae

 

PS: really helped

[AccurateNoodle]

55 minutes ago, Giligis said:

You have to make them transparent, and remove the background. Its easy to do so, use Paint.NET or Gimp. I personally prefer Gimp. Use the "Magic Wand" tool, and hit Delete on your keyboard, easy way to remove that background and make it transparent. 

Hey man, how do you do it? When I use the magic wand, select and then press delete, it works, but parts of the character is deleted making it look really bad and after saving the background is white and not transparent.

 

Edit: I think i need to enable feather edges? For the background tho idk

[Giligis]

So if you have Gimp downloaded, what you need to do in order to make it so you can make the background transparent, is add an Alpha Channel. To do this, at the top go to Layer, then under Transparency hit "Add Alpha Channel". 

 

Now when you delete the backgrounds, it should have checkered grey boxes, instead of white. Thats how you know you did it right.

 

From there, if your having issues where its taking out part of the character, turn down the threshold. If you don't have the "tool options" up, go to Windows, Dockable Dialogs, and click on "Tool Options" there you can turn up or down the threshold. In this case, I think you'd want to turn it down. What the magic wand basically does is the pixel that you select it selects similar colors around that pixel so sometimes it grabs stuff you need, make sure the threshold is low and that you are clicking the background you want to remove. Play with the threshold a bit. 

 

[AccurateNoodle]

7 minutes ago, Giligis said:

So if you have Gimp downloaded, what you need to do in order to make it so you can make the background transparent, is add an Alpha Channel. To do this, at the top go to Layer, then under Transparency hit "Add Alpha Channel". 

 

Now when you delete the backgrounds, it should have checkered grey boxes, instead of white. Thats how you know you did it right.

 

From there, if your having issues where its taking out part of the character, turn down the threshold. If you don't have the "tool options" up, go to Windows, Dockable Dialogs, and click on "Tool Options" there you can turn up or down the threshold. In this case, I think you'd want to turn it down. What the magic wand basically does is the pixel that you select it selects similar colors around that pixel so sometimes it grabs stuff you need, make sure the threshold is low and that you are clicking the background you want to remove. Play with the threshold a bit. 

 

Very detailed, thank you very much for your time!