TV Graphics Editing - Including Sky, C4, nine, ESPN STAR, and Ten Sports

[Prakash]

For creating transparent background you have to create a alpha channel
For creating a alpha channel this is what i do on paint shop pro

• first select the area's which you want to make transparant
  then from the menu bar
• Selection--->Invert
• Selection--->Load/Save Selection--->Save selection to Alpha channel
• Layers--->Load/Save Mask--->Load Mask from Alpha channel
• then save the image with 24 bit colour depth

i hope this helps you.

 

[jonah]

Terrific stuff Ste, adds a whole new realism to the game :cool: . Just maybe the name length/size needs adjusting so the players' total can be seen (see the pic of Strauss leaving the field). Superb work mate!

 

[tutsipoppy2]

hi....well this seems go work but now the only problem is that....how can make that "LIVE" thing transparent.....i mean the main logo is rectangular is very easy to select it, but how am i gonna select the "live" thing to make it transparent.

and also....how can i resize an image,i.e,make it bigger, WITHOUT loosing its quality. i hate that boxes boxes which appear at the edges when i make them bigger.

 

[Ste]

Just tried it, it looks great. Btw if you want i can convert the sky09.txt file to GI import zip format.

Yeah that would be great Prakash, I did try using the export option in the graphics importer but it seemed to only export the files in the original list.txt.

Ste

 

[Ste]

hi....well this seems go work but now the only problem is that....how can make that "LIVE" thing transparent.....i mean the main logo is rectangular is very easy to select it, but how am i gonna select the "live" thing to make it transparent.

and also....how can i resize an image,i.e,make it bigger, WITHOUT loosing its quality. i hate that boxes boxes which appear at the edges when i make them bigger.

You need to select the area you want to be transparent and then invert selection.

The images in the Sky Sports patch are made as .tgas 3 times as big as they are displayed in the game, if I made the the size I used in the length and width settings for each "textbutton" then they ended up looking blury.

Also if you are to try moving stuff around, the X and Y co-ordinates for a window are set whatever resolution you are playing as 640 X 480. x =0 y =0 is always on the bottom left hand corner of the screen (with x being horizontal co-ordinate and y being the vertical co-ordinate).However when you change the x and y co-ordinates of the "textbutton"s 0 x 0 is always based on the bottom left of the "window" that the textbutton is a member of but the co-ordinates are still based on 640 X 480. I hope that is clear to understand!

Ste

 

[tutsipoppy2]

You need to select the area you want to be transparent and then invert selection.

The images in the Sky Sports patch are made as .tgas 3 times as big as they are displayed in the game, if I made the the size I used in the length and width settings for each "textbutton" then they ended up looking blury.

Ste

well that part was a little confusing.

can u plz explain STEP BY STEP giving an example as to how to make the thing transparent so that there is no further confusion.

 

[Ste]

well that part was a little confusing.

can u plz explain STEP BY STEP giving an example as to how to make the thing transparent so that there is no further confusion.

Which bit would you like transparent? Do you have a picture of what you want transparent? The way I did it is the way Prakash said to do it using Paint Shop Pro.

 

[Ste]

I've had a decent look at this. In addition to the points already made can you make the player name writing smaller? If you look at the pic posted above of the dismissed batsman the names are too big and all overlap.

There is a new Sky09.txt attached to the first post - Download it here. This fixes this problem. Does it look ok now?

Ste

 

[ChrisT]

good work ste

 

[tutsipoppy2]

Which bit would you like transparent? Do you have a picture of what you want transparent? The way I did it is the way Prakash said to do it using Paint Shop Pro.

yea i have the pic of the LOGO which i want to be displayed in the game.

i want to know step by step as to how to make the remaining portion of the image (except the logo and "LIVE") traparent in the game. the logo is a seperate JPG image while i'll add the "LIVE" at the botton myself with PSP7

 

[Honda Civic]

Ste did you already posted my commentary patches on www.planetcricket.org ?

 

[shiwang]

great work guys.how about an espn or channel 9 ticker

 

[sunsamrat1980]

3. the radar should also be moved just a little bit upward.

Here's the solution:
Change yPos = "25" in Window ID = "103" and save it.

 

[Honda Civic]

Ste, here's still some problem my man. Can you fix it?
See what is EA Sports problem with number of sixes and the actual score.

 

[Ste]

Ste, here's still some problem my man. Can you fix it?
See what is EA Sports problem with number of sixes and the actual score.

Hi

Did you try the update I posted -http://www.planetcricket.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3384 put that Sky09.txt file into the config editor in the same way as the original one and the problem with the text going over other text should be fixed.

Yeah, I think thats just something EA Sports have done wrong though, maybe someone could edit the exe to fix it?

Ste