hey, all. i have a jar model, but i can't seem to make it transparent. I want it full of different color jellies, but the jellies are to be transparent also.

does anyone know how to make this or a trick to make this possible?

Don't know if this is THE way...but if you have 6.4 why not lower the alpha in MED
Or have a tga skin which is semi transparent

i'll try that, thanks!

I tried the alpha channel thing, but i didn't work. I can't seem to isolate the jar (clear) from the lid (opaque). I also tried to use the my.alpha and the my.transparent, again, it effects the whole model not just the glassy parts. is there any other suggestions.

maybe it can't be done. after all i haven't seen any examples of it in any of the demo i downloaded. If it's not possible i would like to know also.

any help is appreciated.

thanks

Do you have 6.4? If so than in MED you make sure the lid and the rest of the jar have seperate materials. Give the glass an alpha of less than hundred and give the lid an alpha of hundred...that is IF you have 6.4...

Try making the lid a separate model from the jar.
Then it would make it easy to give different alpha values.
You can then attach the two mdels by placement in WEd or by code.
That can be done with any version.
Hope this helps,

thanks for the help.

@ cartoon baboon - i didn't want to upgrade until i was sure my stuff would work with 6.4, maybe i'll try it anyway.

@JimFox - i almost forgot you can merge two models in MED instead of by code.