.PNG Textures Bugging Around.

[Lukeh Ghost]

Not Sure what I've done differently but whenever I upload a .PNG texture now the smooth edges are very sharp and edgy and looks very horrible.

Last time I uploaded a .PNG the edges were smooth and worked how I wanted it.

But now when I upload a .PNG file it's very Ecckkk!!

 

Visualise a circle with a transparent background.
It's very smooth and round until uploaded to Second Life and applied to a prim it becomes very rough and sharp and ugly round the edges.

Thanks in Advanced :) 

[Dora Gustafson]

png files are not just png. It can be

• palette based with the number of colors being between 16 and 256
• the above with dithering
• 8 bit grayscale
• 24 bit colors

All these can have transparency based on a single color or on an alpha channel
The version with 24 colors is normally with smooth edges and the palette based are not

[Shelby Silverspar]

Have you changed the size of your original file, made it drastically smaller? If things worked before and they don't work now, what are you doing differently?

[Morgaine Christensen]

What program are you using to create your .png files?  Do you have anti-alias checked?  How large is your file you are uploading? Did you try to resize and upload at a smaller size?  Do you have the texture stretched on the prim? Have you changed any setting on your Viewer? Changed Viewers?  What have you done different currently than before/

[Lukeh Ghost]

I'm now using Photoshop CS6 where as before I was using CS3

Whenever I get to the Export menu it asks me:

Compression:
None/Fast
Smallest/Slow

Interlaced:
None
Interlaced
 

The ones in bold are the ones I have selected.

And no it's pretty small on a prim, and no settings have changed still and always using FireStorm v4.0.1.27000

Only difference is using Photoshop CS6 as opposed to CS3 

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

Does it also happen with textures you uploaded in the past? I have had this happen several times, mostly with one style of hair I often wear. The alpha channel looks like 8 bit (or 2 bit, what is it?) rather than 24 bit, in other words, every pixel is either completely opaque or completely invisible, making the edges ugly to say the least.

I never found out why this happened, but it fixed itself as far as I can remember every time. It could be a cache issue, but I'm not sure.

I don't know a fix, but to eliminate some possibilities, could you post if others see the same results? If that isn't the case, and I bet it's not, it's certain nothing is wrong with the texture itself, but with the way your viewer shows it to you.

[Armando Woodland]

i also noticed this problem but i don't know if this is helpful or not but it seems it only happens when i am using firestorm the png would look very bad with sharp unclean edjes but if i logged in with phoenix it looks fine so i am not really sure if its the texture or the viewer.