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Category:	CoD2 MP Mapping CoD 2 mapping and level design.
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bigdave876

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Category: CoD2 MP Mapping Posted: Thursday, May. 18, 2006 04:34 pm
I've been trying to get this to work for ages now. I've followed Stryders tutorial and I just can't save a .DDS file if I have the alpha channel. When I do try to save it with the alpha channel, I get the error: Too many channels to export (5) Can someone tell me if I am doing something wrong? I made a video to show what I do to make the image etc. At the start I'm just copying the image and making a new one, so you can see the settings I'm using for it. Beware: 30.1MB Video
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The_Caretaker

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Category: CoD2 MP Mapping Posted: Thursday, May. 18, 2006 10:57 pm
What program are you using for making the .dds file? With an alpha channel there should be only 4 channels to save.. R, G, B and Alpha.
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bigdave876

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Category: CoD2 MP Mapping Posted: Friday, May. 19, 2006 12:05 am
I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS2. Should I have the RGB at the top, as well as the rest?
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StrYdeR

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Category: CoD2 MP Mapping Posted: Friday, May. 19, 2006 12:31 am
i got an error similar to this error after i removed a conversion utility (i believe it was ddstoiwi). removing the dds plugin, restarting the computer and re-installing the nvidia dds plugin for photoshop fixed it for me - so it would be worth a try in your instance
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bigdave876

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Category: CoD2 MP Mapping Posted: Friday, May. 19, 2006 04:50 pm
Nope, never worked In the tutorial you've made, you also have the RGB, R, G, B, A. (Although we don't get to see you save, except for a ready-made one :P ) Also, I think you have a different plugin. Mine looks smaller than yours (The layout etc).
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Jimbown

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Category: CoD2 MP Mapping Posted: Friday, May. 19, 2006 05:07 pm
Well same Issue over here...got the Nvidia plug in aswell...tells me too much channel and its driven me nuts!
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StrYdeR

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Category: CoD2 MP Mapping Posted: Saturday, May. 20, 2006 01:58 am
this is the plugin that i have installed ran over your video, and i cannot see any reason that you may have a problem, other than it is telling you that you have to save it as a copy...that is what gave me the idea that you had something not right with your plugin... i will look into this more this weekend
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={E|S|R}=Switch

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Category: CoD2 MP Mapping Posted: Thursday, Mar. 8, 2007 09:11 pm
sorry to drag this up but I have the same problem :( the only way to solve it is to flatten the image, but that makes my backgrounds white anyway. really beginning to bug me! specialy as styders vid was exactly what I needed!
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samikaze

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Category: CoD2 MP Mapping Posted: Thursday, Mar. 8, 2007 11:29 pm
={E\|S\|R}=Switch writes... Quote: sorry to drag this up but I have the same problem :( the only way to solve it is to flatten the image, but that makes my backgrounds white anyway. really beginning to bug me! specialy as styders vid was exactly what I needed! does that last sentence mean you fixed the issue? Yeah, you have to flatten the image first. Then edit your Alpha layer as needed.
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={E|S|R}=Switch

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Category: CoD2 MP Mapping Posted: Friday, Mar. 9, 2007 12:17 am
unfortunately not. although I admit I have yet to try adding the alpha channel after flattening the RGB layers...I did it before and although it kept the alpha channel it made the background show up white. I shall try it the way you just mentioned and report back with my findings!
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