User blog:D Man o3o/Sprite Transparency Issues

This is a small but slightly noticeable thing with sprites. To make them completely transparent (just the sprite with nothing in the background), things made with light colors, or are already somewhat transparent or have alpha applied to them. The easiest way to prevent this is to

a)Add a matte layer to go over the whole sprite (or the area with transparency issues)
 * This causes an area of color to form over the sprite, meaning you'll have that choice of color over the sprite or region chosen (for example, the shadow is a common one)
 * For the shadow, simply duplicating it and putting it on top of the shadow will darken it enough to show up if an issue arises.

For an example, look at the shadow and the area around Miku



b)Add a color to the background to match the color of the place being uploaded.
 * This will cause everything to show up most of the time, but the downside is, the sprite isn't transparent anymore.

As an example, here is Zeruiah, who has many transparency issues.

Wiki Version With Background

See the difference?

This is why some sprites don't always look right when uploaded on here because the sprites for the Wiki are required to be transparent and most people like them to be transparent. I do usually try my best to make as much as I can appear without messing up the sprite too much but I can't always fix everything.

Aurelia was one I made an edit to at the cost of the fade not looking right.



There's also sprites where the colors are darker than they appear in-game, such as Lin, but that's a whole different story.

http://imgur.com/a/jhmal (This is the Lin example)

Would you rather have transparency issues but be transparent or have a background but not be transparent (Zeruiah as the example) Transparent with issues Background with no transparency