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      alwinal
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      For some reason I want to add an animated texture. have photoshop elements 10 (including nvidia tools), but that does not support alpha channels.

      Is there a way to add alpha channels anyway, or are there other programs which can do that?

      ty in advance

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        Aerilius
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        @admins: You deleted not only a more complete duplicate of this, but also my reply. So here we go again:

        Hi,
        what exactly do you want to achieve? SketchUp does not support animated textures (other than plugins that shift a texture in time intervals). I also haven't heard about how an alpha channel can be useful for animated textures. An alpha channel is another "sub image" in addition to a red, green and blue channel, and it adds information about each pixel's transparency. So you would be able to look through a textured face in SketchUp.

        I believe you can create images with alpha channel in Photoshop Elements. Gimp can do it as well:
        β€’ right-click on a layer β†’ Add alpha channel (if it hasn't already)
        β€’ use the Select tool to select an area and delete (DEL) it or cut it ou (ctrl+x)

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          Gaieus
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          @aerilius said:

          @admins: You deleted not only a more complete duplicate of this, but also my reply. So here we go again:

          Sorry Aerilius, though it was not me, sometimes shit happens when two mods are trying to delete duplicate posts at the same time and they cross work on it - or when they delete a topic (around) the same time someone else pushes the "Submit" button.

          @aerilius said:

          I also haven't heard about how an alpha channel can be useful for animated textures.

          Flame for example?

          Gai...

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            Rich O Brien Moderator
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            I deleted it.....sorry

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              alwinal
              last edited by

              @aerilius said:

              @admins: You deleted not only a more complete duplicate of this, but also my reply. So here we go again:

              Hi,
              what exactly do you want to achieve? SketchUp does not support animated textures (other than plugins that shift a texture in time intervals). I also haven't heard about how an alpha channel can be useful for animated textures. An alpha channel is another "sub image" in addition to a red, green and blue channel, and it adds information about each pixel's transparency. So you would be able to look through a textured face in SketchUp.

              I believe you can create images with alpha channel in Photoshop Elements. Gimp can do it as well:
              β€’ right-click on a layer β†’ Add alpha channel (if it hasn't already)
              β€’ use the Select tool to select an area and delete (DEL) it or cut it ou (ctrl+x)

              The thing I want to achieve is an object that has animated texture inside, for instance animated fireworks. So to achieve that, need to make a surface containing an animated picture, so it does not have anything to do about transperancy.

              Which plugins can make a time interval on textures?

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                gilles
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                http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=33310#p293698

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