red hue after modifying an existing texture

[1of6Billion]

I tried to modify the texture of some parts to give it another look. I made a window and hatch in a large 5m fuel tank, so it could double as a habitat.

I just opened the existing texture with Paint.net and copy pasted the hatch and window. And saved it again as a .png (color dept "auto").

In the game, the modifications are visible, but the colours, apart from red, are gone.

Any clues what I did wrong?

[LaydeeDem]

This is a bug caused by a texture update done a while back. Simply open in paint and save it. It should work.

[Tiberion]

more specifically, whatever editor you used didn't save the PNG file in the proper format; it needs to be a PNG with an Alpha-channel transparency channel. Paint does this automatically, so its easy to use paint to fix it, but you can save it correctly in most any image editor, and actually add transparency to a texture if needed.

[nhnifong]

In Gimp, if that's what you are using, flatten the image before saving it as PNG. this saves it with an alpha channel for some stupid reason.

[1of6Billion]

I use paint.net

I'll check it out later. Thanks a bunch!