new knobs.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Apr 06, 2002 7:52 am

... I bet 95% of the users uses 16bit displays. I've been wondering why CW wants 32bit files.

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Sun Apr 07, 2002 5:19 pm

it is the standard for alpha channel bitmaps, 8 bits each for red, gree, blue, and transparency (alpha)

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Sun Apr 07, 2002 5:20 pm

On 2002-04-06 07:45, Spirit wrote:
I've had good success at last - Fireworks can semi-automate the process, but no TGA output

For now I'll just go with 24-bit bmp files on black.

Just one more question: Fireworks exports the bitmap sequence with file numbering name _f01, name_f02 .... name_f33

Will this naming convention be OK or does it need to be four numbers ie name_0001 ?

thanks for all the help

Too bad Scope won't take gif files, then I could really have fun...

[ This Message was edited by: Spirit on 2002-04-06 07:51 ]

o dont know, it probably would. send some and ill try it.

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Tue Apr 09, 2002 2:43 pm

Can't you do in photoshop a mask for the alpha and save or copy/paste it to the different images of your knob ? should only take a few hours to do

I agree for the gif format, it would be great.

[ This Message was edited by: spacef on 2002-04-09 15:47 ]

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Tue Apr 09, 2002 3:17 pm

Yes you can save keystrokes in Photoshop and replay them or apply them to a group of files automatically... it's pretty awesome and could probably be used for this purpose pretty easily.

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Tue Apr 09, 2002 5:24 pm

Yes SpaceF, that's all I can think of....
Take the 33 Fireworks bmp files and drop them into Photoshop. Then create one "master" alpha channel and drag and drop that onto each of the remaining 32 files and save as tga. A bit messy, but I don't think you can automate a layer drag and drop onto a different file (Sub ?).

There's just some things a human's still got to do

Hope to have my first knob very soon.

[ This Message was edited by: Spirit on 2002-04-09 20:14 ]

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Tue Apr 09, 2002 8:11 pm

it wont work if the knob has any kind of point on it or on a glowy meter. you would have to move/rotate your alpha. mega pain!

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Tue Apr 09, 2002 11:04 pm

here's somesoftware that say they convert many file format : may be there's a gif--> tga32bit conversion ,
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/1,10 ... n&ca=10001

I can't test myself. If the link doesn't work, it's on download.com search "image convert"

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Wed Apr 10, 2002 3:19 am

Good tip. I downloaded the demo of this one:
http://www.batchconverter.com/

It was as fast as hell, but can't recognise the transparent canvas of a GIF as an alpha tga.

In the meantime I've finished my first tga 33-position knob ! Hope you like it SpaceF.

[ This Message was edited by: spirit on 2002-04-10 19:42 ]

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 4:41 am

yes it's cool, check in your e-mails....