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Tim5FCC
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July 29, 2021
Question

Can't save TGA with Alpha Channel

  • July 29, 2021
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Hi

 

This hasn't been a problem before, but now when I try to save out some composited texture bakes from Photoshop as a TGA file, the option to check the Alpha Channel box is greyed out, giving me no transparency when I load it into Maya. I set it to 32-bit when exporting, and the Mode is set to 8-bit. Not sure if that needs changing... The last texture export I did was set to 8-bit too. I've tried playing around with the Alpha in the Channels box, but it doesn't seem to be making any difference. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

 

Thanks

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Mohammad.Harb
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Mohammad.HarbCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 29, 2021

you need to make an alpha channel from the channel panel .

make a selection then click on the icon in the channel panel ( save selection as channel )

 

 

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Tim5FCCAuthor
Participant
July 29, 2021

Turns out the problem was because I'd added an alpha mask twice. There was already one assigned as part of a mask on a folder, and adding another one in the list was conflicting with it. 🙂

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