How do I make a semi-transparent piece with a gradual blend?

At Tools for module developers you will find a list of tools, with links, that are useful for module development.

For example, the tool ImageMagick is really great for doing batch (multi-file) operations on multiple images. To install it, open a terminal (Win+R - or windows+R and then write cmd in the dialog and press OK). This will open a new window, which is entirely black with white text on it. You will see a command prompt

C:\Users\username> 

where username is your user name.

In that terminal type

C:\Users\username> winget install ImageMagick.Q16-HDRI

and press enter. That will install the application.

Now, if you have unpacked the images into a directory - say C:\Users\username\Document\D-Day\images, then you can change to that directory

C:\Users\username> cd Documents\D-Day\images

To list the files in that directory, do

C:\Users\username\Documents\D-Day\images> dir

Create a new sub-directory for the converted images

C:\Users\username\Documents\D-Day\images> mkdir new

You can now run magick on all these files with

C:\Users\username\Documents\D-Day\images> mogrify -format png -path new *.png

or

C:\Users\username\Documents\D-Day\images> for %f in (*.png) do magick "%f" "new\%f" 

The converted images are now all in the sub-directory new, and if you are happy with them, you can move them to the images directory.

C:\Users\username\Documents\D-Day\images> move /Y new\*.png . 
C:\Users\username\Documents\D-Day\images> rmdir new

With the above magick, you will probably not gain much - if anything - from applying optipng to the images also.

Yours,
Christian