Anton Petrov Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 Hi! We are making a game. We use alpha channel to store additional information like a gloss-map. Basically it is not an opacity. So it is vital to keep all color values in RGB channels even if it is zero in the Alpha. Currently Affinity does not play well with this requirement. When I do open TGA image in the Affinity all RGB values are Black for transparent pixels (where Alpha is zero). So we have to stick to Photoshop for now. Do you have any plans addressing this issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted November 30, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 30, 2020 Hi @Anton Petrov and Welcome to the Forums, This has come up before on the forums, one place is here. We don't currently support alpha in TGA files but this may change in a future update as it has been requested before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 4 hours ago, stokerg said: Hi @Anton Petrov and Welcome to the Forums, This has come up before on the forums, one place is here. We don't currently support alpha in TGA files but this may change in a future update as it has been requested before. TGA import and export does support Alpha in the current Affinity apps! The problem is that Affinity's document flattening process (explicitly performed by Flatten command or implicitly performed when exporting to an image file) sets R, G and B to zero wherever Alpha is zero. That may have been a design decision to improve the compressibility of the image data. If that is a deliberate optimisation, then it should be optional instead of being forced on the user and making the app useless to thousands of potential purchasers of licences who will go elsewhere. If it is not deliberate then it effectively is a bug. The problem affects export of TGA with Alpha, PNG with Alpha and TIFF with Alpha. In the linked thread below, MEB acknowledges the problem as a possible bug: sfriedberg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frmdbl Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 It's been 3 weeks and there's really no updates whether the bug is being worked on and/or acknowledged at all. There seems to be a signature assigned 'afp-4020' , but I'm guessing there's no bug tracker available to the public? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted December 16, 2020 Staff Share Posted December 16, 2020 28 minutes ago, frmdbl said: It's been 3 weeks and there's really no updates whether the bug is being worked on and/or acknowledged at all. There seems to be a signature assigned 'afp-4020' , but I'm guessing there's no bug tracker available to the public? It is an improvement request at the moment, and we do not give progress reports, sorry. You are correct , there is no public facing issue database frmdbl 1 Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frmdbl Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Ok, still no improvement in 1.9, I'm running out of patience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frmdbl Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Good to know, I'd really settle with just getting a response from an actual developer, confirming that the issue is understood and worked on and that perhaps it would be solved in the next 4-6 months (whenever there comes time to do this). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 - frmdbl 1 Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frmdbl Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 @haakoo I say Quote a response from an actual developer, confirming that the issue is understood and worked on and you paste a post from a Technical Support guy who doesn't know what they support(TGA) and from QA support stating that an 'improvement request' whose status you can't check has been assigned. // How is this helping anything? One of us has trouble understanding written text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Move Along People Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 - Quote Move Along people,nothing to see here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frmdbl Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 Ok, nothing has been done with this problem for months. I can't even use it for super simple tasks like just exporting already made texture. Though I paid little, I wish I could get a refund. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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