Start orb problem

[NEXTLOVER]

Hi. I've read around here and I haven't come across anyone having this problem (or haven't read enough). I'm on a Win 7 Home Prem. x64 with a DPI of 125%.

I know to change a start button, the bitmaps to be changed are 6806, 6807, 6808 with each one having a corresponding set of diff. bitmap dimensions. I did all that with Resource Hacker, did the whole Take Ownership tool. Followed all the steps fr. the How To Change Start Orb Tutorial fr. this forum.

Welp. It came out looking like this: & whenever I'd roll my mouse over it, a black squarish thing appears. It's like blinking or something.

Granted, the orb files were originally .png files & I used XnView to convert 'em to bitmaps, then used Paint to resize them to the sizes (66x198; 81x243; etc.).

So... where did I go wrong? Any help I'd appreciate

 

[Six9siX]

Possible error is that the replacement pictures has no transparency.
Did you save it in 32bit bmp or 24bit?
Ur done everything right just to open the original orb in A. photoshop or some other G. software that allow saving 32bit bmp-s and look at the picture structure.

 

[NEXTLOVER]

Possible error is that the replacement pictures has no transparency.
Did you save it in 32bit bmp or 24bit?
Ur done everything right just to open the original orb in A. photoshop or some other G. software that allow saving 32bit bmp-s and look at the picture structure.

Now that I think about it... I think I save them in 24-bit LOL! Probably with no transparency either. Heh.

I'm gonna give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion

 

[Anthony]

This has something to do with the alpha channel i think.... Take a look at this Video

 

[NEXTLOVER]

Thanks to the suggestions above... it worked! LMAO. Problem was the MAKING/TWEAKS of the start buttons, not in the steps of changing the darn button.

I dug around & read that you either have to delete the alpha1 channel or put the background of the orb as black--> transparency. I don't really know, but it worked. & you really need a high-end type of graphics software (i.e. Photoshop).

Happy New Year

 

[Jonathan_King]

Thanks for posting back. Glad you got it figured out. Feel free to stick around, we will be happy to answer any more questions that you have.