Alpha Channel

[SlipperyBrick]

Hi,

 

I'm having an issue that I can't seem to figure out. I'm a new user and I purchased this software based on the price and how great it looked but I'm started to hit a big problem and regretting ditching my Photoshop subscription.

 

I use Photo in a game development pipeline and I'm having a hard time packing my textures into channels within a document. Whenever I load a texture map in to the alpha channel of my document it makes everything transparent.

 

Is there some setting to stop this from happening?

 

If not I think I'll have to get a refund and go back to that horrible subscription plan Photoshop have

[v_kyr]

Did you already looked and used it the way as shown in this Channel Packing video?

[SlipperyBrick]

46 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Did you already looked and used it the way as shown in this Channel Packing video?

 

Yep, I checked out that video and I know how to copy a specific channel and put it into the appropriate channels. My issue is that whenever I place a texture map into the alpha channel the whole image goes transparent.

 

Unfortunately not once in the video does he load one of the texture maps into the alpha channel, if he did he would have the same problem that I am having. I just need to find out is this intentional or is it a setting that can be turned off. For some reason Affinity Photo uses the alpha channel for transparency. Photoshop doesn't seem to do this, it allows you to add anything into the alpha channel of an image and doesn't add transparency, I am hoping that this is just an option that can be turned off in Affinity Photo otherwise the software remains unusable for me and pretty much in a complete game development workflow where things like this are done all the time. 

 

Right now I'm starting to realise that Affinity Photo is more geared towards photographers that like to manipulate their photographs, or compositors and illustrators/artists. It's a shame because I think Affinity Photo could wipe out Photoshop completely with it's attractive price plan and toolset and it would probably take the games industry by storm and convert a lot of Photoshop users over.

[v_kyr]

Hmm you could contact the video creator here in the forum and ask him, he should be able to tell you for sure. Related to AP's actual version stand, well there are still a lot of things quite not yet doable, so far not implemented/missing, or not bug free. - So there's still a lot of room for improvements and thus dev working manpower to spend on it.

[SlipperyBrick]

I'm not to sure who the creator is and I've done some digging and really can't find any type of work around for this

[Alfred]

25 minutes ago, ScrotieFlapWack said:

I'm not to sure who the creator is

 

The creator is James Ritson.

 

[SlipperyBrick]

2 hours ago, Alfred said:

 

The creator is James Ritson.

 

 

Thank you, I have sent him a message.