Transparency issues (Pikachu)

[SushiGummy]

This is my first time making a texture, so pardon my noobishness.

I'm working on a Pikachu texture with, among other changes, smaller eyes. I've been using Paint.net to make the eyes smaller, and it's (more or less) working fine for me so far.

One problem, though. For some reason, after I made Pikachu's Final Smash eyes smaller, the final smash eye textures didn't stay transparent. In-game, Pikachu with a final smash has two black boxes (along with the eyes) on his face. The images themselves are transparent (instead of black), and I didn't save them under any different file types (as far as I know). I'd just edit them in Paint.net and click save.

The files I'm referring to are Pikachu_eyesyellow.##
00, 01, and 04 are all eye textures (with transparent backgrounds), and are the ones I modified.
02, 03, and 05 are completely transparent and I haven't touched them.

[toastoftriumph]

Yeah, this is a common problem with characters containing 2d eyes.
Here's a tutorial.
http://forums.kc-mm.com/index.php?topic=7.0

I'm pretty sure that it essentially uses the original texture as a fake-alpha-channel/layer.

Anyways, hope this helps.

[SushiGummy]

Yeah, this is a common problem with characters containing 2d eyes.
Here's a tutorial.
http://forums.kc-mm.com/index.php?topic=7.0

I'm pretty sure that it essentially uses the original texture as a fake-alpha-channel/layer.

Anyways, hope this helps.

Hm. Unfortunately, and it was mentioned a few times in the thread, the instructions are kinda confusing. And apparently you can't do anything with Pikachu's Final Smash eyes unless you have Photoshop. I'll give it a try, but I'm not entirely confident that it'll work.

Edit: I haven't tried it in Brawl or anything, but just looking at the preview I'm pretty sure it's not going to work. Everything around the cheeks and the eyes are gray.

[toastoftriumph]

In that case, ignore the guide; instead copy and paste the original eye texture to go behind the final smash eye (don't leave any transparent layer for the final image).
If that doesn't work, I don't know what will.

And I think the only reason it was saying you need photoshop is so that you can use layers to place the original texture behind the final smash one.

[ForOhFor Error]

Try GIMP. It's free, and is basically Photoshop.