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how to make tilesets work or make them Transparent in Pokemon Essentials.

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    I've been using Pokemon Essentials for a while now and I wanted to import custom tilesets into my game when doing so I encountered a white space at the corner of a single tileset or just the whole sheet I don't know what I did wrong or why is it doing that?
     
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  • Color the background to a color that the tileset doesn't use (for example purple). Then in RPG Maker XP go to Materials > Tilesets > Import

    Select your tileset then chose your color with left and right click to make it transparent.
     
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    Color the background to a color that the tileset doesn't use (for example purple). Then in RPG Maker XP go to Materials > Tilesets > Import

    Select your tileset then chose your color with left and right click to make it transparent.

    Color the background that the tileset doesn't use you mean like this?
     
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  • Color the background that the tileset doesn't use you mean like this?

    The "Transparent color" there is the one it's going to find everything of that color on your tileset and make that part show up transparent. If you changed it to the white color of your background there, it would solve your current problem, but you very likely have some things that are white on your tileset that you don't want to be transparent. So your best bet is to change all the background parts(using an image editor like Photoshop or Paint) to a single color you know you won't use, like that hot pink.
     

    Black Eternity

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    Here lets clear this up, your background should be a color that (you will not use in your tiles) example, bright mofo teal, dark doodoo brown or whatever you desire.

    then left click on THAT SAME COLOR YOU HAVE CHOSEN, and it will be transparent.

    To use your attachment image, it says your transparent color is BLACK, when it should actually be white (just looking at the screenshot).
     
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    Here lets clear this up, your background should be a color that (you will not use in your tiles) example, bright mofo teal, dark doodoo brown or whatever you desire.

    then left click on THAT SAME COLOR YOU HAVE CHOSEN, and it will be transparent.

    To use your attachment image, it says your transparent color is BLACK, when it should actually be white (just looking at the screenshot).

    I kinda did that at the start it didn't work too
     

    Black Eternity

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    Well then the only other solution I can come up with is, are you using your layers correctly?
     
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    Well then the only other solution I can come up with is, are you using your layers correctly?

    Well no one didn't tell me there where suppose to be layers. But I kinda use gimp for this so I'd say I only use 1 layer idk what that would do
     

    KillerMapper

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  • I think he's talking about RMXP layers. If you use transparent tiles on the first layer, you'll have the white background visible.
    Use F5, F6 and F7 to switch between layers, and F4 to highlight the current layer. If you want tu use transparent tiles (like trees, houses...), you must use layer 2 or 3.
    That are basics though. I think you should know that :p

    The other problem could be the tileset format, it should be in .png for transparency. You can even have partial transparency (shadows for example). My tilesets have a "void" background so I don't need to bother with the transparency color background (it shouldn't affect performances).
     
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    YAY! I was able to use my tilesets on other layers and there all transparent no more white spaces thank you all for bearing your time to help me. I'll let you know if I have other problems.
     

    Ewery1

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  • Okay this is very definitely a dead thread, but everyone says left click the transparent color, where do we left click it? In what window when?
     

    PunkPhantom

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    Go to Tools > Material Base > Import, select the tileset you want, then hopefully you can follow the directions from there.
     
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