pattern troubles - vertical bars of color where there shouldn't be

[coldfloral]

I'm trying to make my first pattern in TS3, and need some help.

Actually, I've made the pattern and it looks like it should in Delphy's Pattern Packager, as seen here:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/coldfloral/Untitled1.jpg

However, when I test it in game it looks like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v53/coldfloral/Screenshot-74.jpg

Where are the vertical yellow stripes coming from? It doesn't matter what surface I apply the pattern to; it comes out with the stripes.

Thanks for any help.

coldfloral

[MetalKat0642]

Ummm no idea. Can you attach the dds please? I'll try & reexport it and see what happens in my game...
(nice pattern btw.)

[coldfloral]

I've attached the file to my original post. Thanks for taking a look, MetalKat0642.

[BabaYaga]

I thought I'd take a look to see if I could help, and the dds doesn't open correctly for me in Photoshop-- it looks all black. Not sure if that's relevant.

I did bring it into the pattern packager successfully though, and I notice that your R G and B channels are identical, rather than separated out so that the motif is on one channel and the background is on another.

Usually in a 2-color pattern the R channel should be all white, and the Green channel should be black except for the pattern motif which should be white, and the Blue channel should be all black.

I wonder if you are seeing some kind of interference pattern because of that. I'd fix the color separation issue and the stripes will probably go away.

[coldfloral]

Thanks for the suggestions BabaYaga. I'll try fixing the channels tomorrow after work.

I forgot to mention I made the .dds in Gimp; so maybe that's why it's all black when you open it in Photoshop?

Thanks again, and I'll report back tomorrow :)

[MetalKat0642]

The .dds opens fine in GIMP.
BabaYaga is absolutely right about the colour separation issue. Another thing: the black in the dds isn't 100% black, so those regions aren't 100% transparent. As a result, the 1st palette doesn't really define the colour, as you can see here.
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7130/originalddsweirdcolouri.jpg

Apart from the 1st palette behaving like that, I didn't have any issues in-game. No vertical stripes or any other interference.
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7789/originalingame.jpg

I fixed the black colour and edited the dds so that the channels looked like this (alpha is only necessary in 4-colour patterns):
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3214/decomposedlayers.jpg
This made the pattern behave 100% correctly.



P. S. Here's a totally weird effect I discovered. When I opened the original .dds in PatternPackager and played with the Blending flags, I got an effect I never saw before. Those black things aren't anywhere in the dds!
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6588/weirdeffect.jpg

[coldfloral]

I realize now that I was getting confused with layers and channels when I was making the pattern. Hence why it was all bass-akwards :)

Thank you both for your help, BabaYaga and MetalKat0642! I don't think I would have been able to figure it out without your assistance.

:beer:

edit: ok, I can't seem to make the black 100% black. I've used the color picker and it's telling me my black is 100% black, yet I can't change palette #1 to any other color in the pattern packager or in game.

Any ideas?