animation backrounds question

[Miro]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie to game editor, or GE as you like to call it, and I have a question about making animations. How do you make the animations have a see through backround? This has probably something to do with image editing, but the problem I'm struggling with is this; when I make my own walk cycle, the backround has a colour and when I use a walk cycle from the tutorials, they have a clear backround. In Photoshop they seem to be the same, both are bmps and both have a backround.

Any help would be really cool! Help a noob, will you?

P.s. Love the program!

[Game A Gogo]

im not sure if this is it, but you just have to crete a picture, put it infinite and put the z depht to the minimum.

[Fuzzy]

If an image does not contain an alpha channel when it is imported to GE, the top left most pixel color is used for transparency.

There are two ways to fix this. either add an alpha channel to your image(even if no pixels are transparent), or arrange the frames of the animation into one file like this

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

with a 1 pixel border around each frame. The border will become 100% alpha, and will be ignored when you place the tiles.

[Miro]

Thank you!

That was very helpful and it worked like a charm.