[Starman01]

It's me again  

I really hope I'm not going on your nerves, but I encountered
another strange thing. I am now using the 260404 build, and
my end-mission-CTD is solved thanks to you.

But now I encountered a strange phenomena, which lets the star-background
shining through the planets (in tga-mode). See here the pic for
the reference, it is quite visible on the planets dark-side, but it
also occurs on the light side. Is this a known bug to you ? However,
I think I'm in desperate need of another reinstall of freespace, but I
don't think that will solve this problem. (btw, I'm using a GF4, TI 4200 card)

[CP5670]

It looks like you're using a custom planet there; its entry in stars.tbl needs to be listed as a BitmapX rather than a Bitmap to remove the transparency.

[Lightspeed]

Yes, and if you want the planet to NOT have a black box around it then, you'll need to set up an alpha channel.

[IceFire]

Hey how do you set Alpha channels in Photoshop.  Any good guides...the help section seems useless.  Maybe I should look in the manual yesno?

[Flipside]

On your layers box, you have a tab marked 'Channels', click on that and it will open your main colour channels (RGB). You can now add a channel in much the same way as you add a layer.

However, if you are wanting to do a transparent box such as this, you just use transparency as normal, and save it as a 32Bit TGA iirc

[CP5670]

What about the pure green? Does that not work with tga images?

[Lightspeed]

no, and it never quite worked for planets at all, since once you wanted to do an atmosphere (as in starmans image) you were screwed anyway

[Tolwyn]

the planets were rendered in 3dsmax and they HAVE alpha channel stored it 'em

[Starman01]

@Tolwyn : Have you the same error, or is this related to just my PC again ?

[Tolwyn]

I will have to test it ... could you send the newest version of the 4th mission to me?

[Tolwyn]

nope, I do not have this problem