by "Walsh Family" <walshlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jul 19, 2008 at 10:22 AM
"S****-Arsenic" <s****arsenic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:bc83119b-6104-45a9-8c05-fffa5e9109ee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Is there any way to disable the alpha being used for transparency in
> GIMP?
>
> The reason I ask this is because some of the images I will be creating
> will use the alpha channel for bump mapping and the transparency makes
> editing the diffuse(RGB channels) difficult.
>
> It is also im****tant that the bump maps match the diffuse as closely
> as possible and the most logical way to do that is to have both in the
> same image.
>
> If there is no way to do this then please let me know and consider
> this a feature request.
I'm not the greatest Gimper but you can certainly turn off including the
alpha layer in the display while working on the rgb ****tion of the image .
Put the mouse over the alpha layer and ctrl-Lclick. This toggles display
with alpha off and on (when its off there is a red box around the alpha
layer). Whats even more cool is that you can do alt- Lclick and this
toggles editing the alpha layer off and on (the grayscale of the alpha
becomes the active image when there is a green line around it! Very Very
useful. Are you making game textures?
Lyle
