Adventure Game Studio

Im having trouble getting the transparent colour  to work when I import sprites.

I read the ags manual, and through the posts and the faqs. Still stuck
Im creating my artwork in Photoshop 7
The game I am making is Hi-colour
And as per the manual I made the colour I wanted transparent on my sprites
255,0,255
And then exported as BMP 16 bit
I made sure the top right pixel was the correct colour, but still no success.
Bright pink square sprites.
I also tried exporting the sprite as pcx and Bmp 8bit …. 24 bit etc. everything I could!

I read through the beginners FAQ (http://www.rain-day.com/harbinger/faq/)
But I am still unable to get any results
I know that I need to save the bmp file in this mode
>> 32K/32,768 colors   
I also read up about colour models and gamuts in photoshop. But I am still at a loss.
I need to know specifically how to export correctly from photoshop7, any advice question would be greatly appreciated.
              Thanks in advance,
                                           Dreamer.

The colour for the transparent part of the sprite does not need to be that bright pink colour that is made with the RGB at 255, 0, 255... it can be any colour at all, just as long as that colour isn't one that you need for that particular sprite..

Try importing this image (click on the image to get a .pcx version for importing):

(http://www.tdrdesign.net/images/trythisimage.gif) (http://www.tdrdesign.net/images/trythis.pcx)

And make sure you have the importing set like this (remember to click on "Grab Entire Image"):

(http://www.tdrdesign.net/images/trythis.gif)

Also for your exporting from Photoshop 7 question. There is no way to export directly to AGS. The only way is to save the graphic, and then to import it manually through AGS's Sprite Manager.

Quote from: Dreamer on Mon 07/06/2004 04:52:16
I know that I need to save the bmp file in this mode
>> 32K/32,768 colorsÃ,  Ã, 

And be aware that you shouldn't be saving your BMP files in this mode, the AGS editor only supports importing of 8-bit (256 colours) and 24/32-bit BMP images (even if your game is set to be hicolour, you need true-colour images for import).

Thanks For your help lads, that worked fine.
Just a little misunderstanding of the manual on my part.
I am so happy :)

Ive lurked on these boards for ages, I love the community spirit here!
You all ROCK!   Whooo..... AGS , Yay !

(to get an idea of how happy i am watch the steve ballmer "monkeydance"
video clip)

thanks again.