Windows 7 and Transparencies

[Chad Sexington]

I've been working on my game a little lately and this is the first time I've been working on it since I bought a new laptop with Windows 7.

I noticed that when I export a file from RMXP, the transparency is intact on the thumbnail and when I open up the picture (with MS Paint) the transparency comes up as white.

Normally I set the transparency to neon blue/green/pink or something. Now when I save that file and import it to RMXP, the white background now matches the white used on some tiles. (Polar bear rugs are missing pixels, for example.)

Is there a way to turn off transparencies in Windows 7/MS Paint while restoring the original blue/green/pink?

(I know I could just fill in the background color again, but this isn't practical for my tilesets that have 1000's of tiles on them and lots of trees and things like that with hundreds of empty voids.)

 

[Draycos Goldaryn]

MS Paint does not support Transparency. Your best bet is to get a different image editing software, both Paint.net and GIMP are free and both support transparency and will eliminate your issue.

 

[Ellie]

The only other solution would be to save two copies, whenever you come to edit it edit the external copy and then import it, rather than trying to edit the already transparent one. It's a bitch but yeah MS Paint can't do transparencies.

 

[Chad Sexington]

So it sounds like ditching MS Paint is the answer...

But is this new to the Windows 7 version? I mean, I've been using MS Paint for RMXP for 6 years now. Only now on this new laptop does it default the transparency back to white.

 

[Xilef]

So it sounds like ditching MS Paint is the answer...

But is this new to the Windows 7 version? I mean, I've been using MS Paint for RMXP for 6 years now. Only now on this new laptop does it default the transparency back to white.

It never supported transparency, when it "worked" for you it showed the colour of whatever data is lying there, Windows 7 takes a more intelligent approach and applies the colour white.

Just use a more powerful image editing tool.

 

[Ellie]

Just always edit a non-imported image. Import it when finished, from a folder outside of your game. Then you'll always be able to edit it properly but when importing will set the transparencies correctly.