Glass/Transparent?

Posted By: Wulf

Glass/Transparent? - 12/13/07 04:30

I am making a street lamp(historical kind) with MED and was wondering how to make the glass transparent?

I'm using A7 med.

I'll post some picy's after i find out how to get that fixed =_).

Posted By: Nidhogg

Re: Glass/Transparent? - 12/13/07 05:34

Quote:

I am making a street lamp(historical kind) with MED and was wondering how to make the glass transparent?

I'm not sure but from what i've seen and read about transparency
is that it has something to do with alpha channel.
Also maybe the my.alpha I think it is in your script.
The glass itself has to be a seperate entity as well.

Do a search in the forums I'm sure you'll find something usefull
to your needs.

Posted By: bstudio

Re: Glass/Transparent? - 12/13/07 09:15

Just make sure that the part of the glass in your texture has a transparent alpha channel

Info about the alpha channel:
http://www.coniserver.net/wiki/index.php/The_Alpha_Channel

Posted By: Wulf

Re: Glass/Transparent? - 12/13/07 19:35

I followed the directions(tested one with Gimp and one with Adobe PS), but when I go to Alapha Texture File and try to load it, it says wrong texture format(and they're in tga).

Any ideas?

Posted By: broozar

Re: Glass/Transparent? - 12/13/07 20:40

don't use tga texture compression. it's a saving option.

Posted By: Wulf

Re: Glass/Transparent? - 12/13/07 20:51

i'm confused?

Transparent=tga?

if i just load it up like a normal skin image, no change.

And if it i don't make it tga it wont be transparent.

what to do?

Posted By: D3D

Re: Glass/Transparent? - 12/13/07 20:55

There is a Alpha Channel tutorial on the wiki.

Posted By: Wulf

Re: Glass/Transparent? - 12/13/07 21:14

Yeah thats the one i looked at. I followed it step by step, and used two different programs.

Created image, saved as TGA.

The question is though where/what do i do to apply this to the selected area.

Does the transparency not show up in med?

Posted By: Scorpion

Re: Glass/Transparent? - 12/13/07 21:45

Just try to run it and it should be fine. MED+skin-editor+WED does not show transparency.

Posted By: Wulf

Re: Glass/Transparent? - 12/18/07 17:43

WOOT my lamp's glass is finally transparent ^^.

I'll post some picy's later.

Thanks much for help =_). Turns out I had it set right I just didn't realize you had to build/run the game to actually see the transparency