[RMVX ACE] ASSISTANCE NEEDED!

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THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!

Here at Bulldozer Studios, we pride ourselves in being able to deliver our products without having to bother other people to help us with any problems that crop up. The only time we've seriously come to requests others aid is when our old system died and took the original Bella's Mansion 1 files with it, making it impossible to update that game and fix a major bug. But thanks to your help, we were able to crack the game and put out another update. You have no idea how welcome it was to have that issue repaired.

Unfortunately, we seem to be in desperate need of your help again. This time regarding Bella's Mansion 2, the sequel to the original game that just started active development.

All of the assets we've constructed & found to use for the game have one common problem that renders them almost useless: THE BLACK BACKGROUND. It's on the character sprites, the tilesets, and even some of the face portraits!

We barely have any free time to work on this project right now, and we have no money to put out to get a professional image editing software ( one that works on Vista, anyway ), or hire someone to fix our assets for us. Is there any way for us to fix the games assets WITHOUT breaking the bank? Otherwise, the game may take until 2018 to release.
That's odd. When you use the Resource Manager to import an image, it should ask you to click on the background color if the image doesn't already include transparency information.

Did you just copy the files into the directory instead of importing them?
Download Paint.net, it's free image editing software that's way better than the Windows built-in Paint. There's also GIMP as an alternative and also free, but I like Paint.net's interface more personally.

With that you can set the alpha channel, the transparency, of parts of your image. You can use the magic wand tool to select the color you want to remove, and once selected you can hit the delete key to set what you selected to transparent. It'll appear as a white and gray grid when part of an image is transparent. Totally free, works on Windows, and easy to do once you get your feet wet with the tool itself.
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Here at Bulldozer Studios, we pride ourselves in being able to deliver our products without having to bother other people to help us with any problems that crop up. The only time we've seriously come to requests others aid is when our old system died and took the original Bella's Mansion 1 files with it, making it impossible to update that game and fix a major bug. But thanks to your help, we were able to crack the game and put out another update. You have no idea how welcome it was to have that issue repaired.

Unfortunately, we seem to be in desperate need of your help again. This time regarding Bella's Mansion 2, the sequel to the original game that just started active development.

All of the assets we've constructed & found to use for the game have one common problem that renders them almost useless: THE BLACK BACKGROUND. It's on the character sprites, the tilesets, and even some of the face portraits!

We barely have any free time to work on this project right now, and we have no money to put out to get a professional image editing software ( one that works on Vista, anyway ), or hire someone to fix our assets for us. Is there any way for us to fix the games assets WITHOUT breaking the bank? Otherwise, the game may take until 2018 to release.


Save it to another format. JPGs maybe. It seems like the interlaced takes in the transparency channel.
Don't save anything as JPGs except photos. JPGs are a lossy format and it isn't intended for anything like game assets and JPGs don't support transparency anyways. Interlacing is only to provide photo information in a staggered manner so that it's possible to view them at a lower quality while the image is still downloading instead of waiting for the entire photo to show it all at once.
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