Alphas

[CF Kane]

I've been trying to work up a skin for male_hunter and I can't seem to get the hat to go away. I know it involves some trick with alphas, but I can't figure it out. Help?

[Revenant]

What graphics program are you using?  With Photoshop, set the layer to something not called Background.. so you can have transparent portions... delete the parts you want gone, and save as a 32-bit targa.

[CF Kane]

Okay. I renamed the background layer "layer 0", hid it so only the parts I wanted showed, and saved it as a 32-bit tga. Now the parts I don't want only appear white.

[GogglesPizanno]

Won't that just change the texture of the hat?

To "remove" it, don't you need to black out the hat section in the alpha channel (on the channels tab)?