Gif to bik transparency problem

[fabio_m]

hey all

i got a question about the gif to bik conversion



well i'm trying to expriment a track where you can ride a boat
i got the boat, ... the water and everything good

but ... the boat doesnt leave any water trail
so i searched the web to try to find something that i can use
and i came up with this gif



but i dont know how to make it into bik without the black background

i hope you understand the problem
i'm bad explaning this things :$

and hope you can teach me how to convert transparent gifs into bik without that black background

[Promaxer]

Well explained , but you shud talk to hawkger or sol666, but the problem is that they are studying and they dont have time

[trunks_11]

hmm, do you want to make a picture on a tm shield, or do you want to make it in tm??? I don

[fabio_m]

its in tm mediatracker

i want to use it as a water trail leaved by a boat

[trunks_11]

ah ok, but why do you want to use bik then??? upload it on any page and then do it in your map with a locator

[dose]

I have try too, but only came black background;(

bik file download

im pretty shure there's a way do this transparent background, but more with the jpeg-frames from the gif, adding an aplha layer.
BUT, when i try to save, it's not adding the alpha channel.

will try too because i need it too , so if you find before me, PM me please

[trunks_11]

I thought you want to make it in the mt. For that you must upload the image on a imagehoster page that saves it as jpg (p.e. tinypic). Then do it in your map and you will see it hasn

[Skeleton]

OK I'm a little late posting but what you needed to do is extract the frames and make each frame into a dds file with apha and then use each one in mediatracker running like frames, bik will always have black background as far as I know