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Hi guys i have finisch all my gauges  

now i need to made some glass reflect on my gauges !
to made it more cool !


but i have a litle trouble ?

my question is what programme i need for making my 256  8 bit bmp file whit alpha ?

does imagetool can convert a psd file to a 8 bit 256 whit alpha channel ?

have try dxtbmp programme for making my alpha but its not working on a 8 bit 256 color texture

have try bmp 2000 and image tool programme but none was able to make a 256 8 bit image whit  alpha    

i know that photoshop and corel draw can do a 256  8 bit image whit alpha but i have none of  this programme.

is there some  litle free programme i can find some where on the web to made or convert an image in  
256/8 bit format whit alpha ?  pls help !

Have you tried making a seperate guage file just for reflection effects; added versions - i.e. different names - might then be applied over different guages (the actual guage needs to be listed 1st in the 'panel.cfg' so as to see through the "glass" guage). I haven't tried & I'm still too involved with texturing models for WW1 campaigns, though I'm near completion of the 1st part of that project.
Also, I saw a guage editing program, somewhere in the utilities section, to edit the bmp files therein, not that I mean to sidetrack what you're doing (I frequently do it to myself, however).

what about instead of adding the reflections into the gauges, placing a transparent polygon on top of them and adding the reflection to that polygon?

that's how i would do it, it's simpler than adding aplha channels to your gauge files

just an idea

c ya

Moach

I was meaning a seperate, single file that could be positioned over any other, actual guage. More than one could be made if you wished to alter shadow/reflective qualities according to the panel position, account for  needle movement, etc. Depends upon how simple/realistic you wish to be, like everything else. We may be saying a similar thing differently, Moach.