Post by valkir on Nov 7, 2016 10:41:20 GMT -5
Hey guys! I've been using the S4S to make tattoos for a while now, but when I fired up the Studio yesterday to try and make some new ones, I suddenly ran into an issue I have never had before.
Normally, I take the picture I wish to use, inverse the colours on the Alpha layer, and then fill the RGB layer with solid black: this makes for the nicest result, in my opinion. However, it suddenly looks like that doesn't work anymore. Somehow, Studio seems to read the .dds file as if it were a .png - at least, that's what I'm thinking is happening, because it looks exactly like that. When I test the tattoos in-game, they look completely fine. I even tried to import older .dds files that I finished weeks ago that worked fine, but I had the same result in my previews on S4S.
A little comparison to what it used to look like a few weeks ago (click) and what it looks like right now (click).
Better detail in S4S: click. This is what it looks like in S4S studio. This is what any tattoos look like when you do not fill the RGB layer with a solid colour, but instead just the normal picture: it creates these white lines around the edges. Filling the RGB layer results in this, in-game: click. Normally, the tattoo would show up the same way in S4S, but since the update, it seems that something is different.
I hope that makes sense! I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before - I have looked in the forums, but haven't found something similiar. The tattoos seem to look/work fine in-game, so it definitely is just a S4S preview issue. Thanks in advance for any help!
Normally, I take the picture I wish to use, inverse the colours on the Alpha layer, and then fill the RGB layer with solid black: this makes for the nicest result, in my opinion. However, it suddenly looks like that doesn't work anymore. Somehow, Studio seems to read the .dds file as if it were a .png - at least, that's what I'm thinking is happening, because it looks exactly like that. When I test the tattoos in-game, they look completely fine. I even tried to import older .dds files that I finished weeks ago that worked fine, but I had the same result in my previews on S4S.
A little comparison to what it used to look like a few weeks ago (click) and what it looks like right now (click).
Better detail in S4S: click. This is what it looks like in S4S studio. This is what any tattoos look like when you do not fill the RGB layer with a solid colour, but instead just the normal picture: it creates these white lines around the edges. Filling the RGB layer results in this, in-game: click. Normally, the tattoo would show up the same way in S4S, but since the update, it seems that something is different.
I hope that makes sense! I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before - I have looked in the forums, but haven't found something similiar. The tattoos seem to look/work fine in-game, so it definitely is just a S4S preview issue. Thanks in advance for any help!
