you could do the spokes as a texture.

you can combine a full opaque and 100 transparent in the same skin image.
the engine just doesn;t like semi-transparent and full opaque togeather.

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you could do the spokes as a texture.

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Yea I did. I thought it would save on polies so I made a TGA of the wheel with the spokes and the rest transparent.

The models used in these examples have 2 skins on the same model, My question is, what if you apllied the UV script to these models? Would it effect both skins? Or only first or second skin? I cant try it because i don't have the 6.4 update yet...

Jason

never tried the script since 6.4, but then with being able to apply differnt material skins like this it would pretty much eliminate the need to.

hi grimber,

i tried opening your jeep model in the latest med and i could see it using only skin0. since it is in mdl7 format, i didnt see any other secondary "transparent" texture. then how did you do the transparency for the glass window?

can you enlighten me on this? thanks!

Sorry to intrude (just thought I'd help out):

@gedimaster:
Go to skin editor and click on the little icons on the right hand side just above the skin editor viewport. This is to view the next skin . Hope this helps.

Hi to all!
It is not hard create a model that has a transparent part, like a window or a door with a glass, without tga texture, for those that they have 3dgs from the release 6.4 in MED is possible through
material setup, make a part of a model transparent, for example a window, of wood or of iron, create the glass easily, choose the texture of the mesh that must represent the glass, and with the material editor ---> material setup ---> skin setting ---> alpha bring the value to 35- 40% and then apply the texture to the glass mesh.

greet

salva

can someone post up a walkthro of a tutorial that does this? really appreciate it. for eg., how can i specify the coords of a model to use the alpha channel of the common texture in order to achieve transparency for a part of the object?

do i do that in my modeling software or in med?

thanks!