Telephone box, 2 sided glass.....

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in max use a plane, cap holes, the nin material editor set opacity to around 35 this will give you a sheet of glass.

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Hmm, I'm not sure if this will work and is probably not the best idea. It would be good if it's being kept in MAX but, it's being exported.

Ok James, if I were you, create your phone box as normal but forget about the glass for now. Once telephone box without glass is made with UV map, export from MAX To MDL format.

Ok now for the glass:

Create a plane, use the phone box model you made as reference so you can get the correct size of the glass. Then UV Map the glass as normal. Export to MED. Now you will have to make a mask.

Download this : TGA Maker 1.0

It's an amazing tool. It's extremely simple and has all the basic features you need to make a TGA map with alpha transparency. On your diffuse map, you must work out which parts you want transparent/ invisible and then paint these areas pure black and the areas you want opaque must be pure white.

Remember:

100% Black = Transparent
100% White = Opaque
Anything between will be only half see-through and viceversa.

You should have 2 files:

1 BMP which is your diffuse map which contains the skin for your glass.
1 BMP which is a mixture of black and white pixels to mark areas you want transparent (grayscale).

Load up BMP skin from glass into TGA Maker, then load up your grayscale map (tools, load from file) and fiddle with settings. Save as TGA, open this in skin editor in MED and it should work in A6 engine if you've done everything correctly.

So you want the glass part about 35% opaque (a dark grey I think). For the writing on the glass, make sure it's white or a bit of a dark white all depending if you want it solid looking or not.

Tell me if this helps?

P.S. For the 2 sided effect, I'm really not sure about how to achieve this. I know you have to use a script but I'm no coder lol. I think DaBro0zar gave a force 2 sided code but I can't remember if it was him or not.

Sorry if some doesn't make much sense. I get confused myself at times like this .

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I click the link to get tga maker and it just opens a new window with this same gamestudio thread in it.

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Rightclick and save as .

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he asked about transparency in max.

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Im making my model in 3ds max.

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For the glass, do I just make a flat plane without width, use an alpha on that part...

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Then how do I apply part transparency in Med is there a script?

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Then I answer that he doesn't need a script. He needs to make an alpha map using TGA Maker which I provided the link to and then he can create a alpha map for his model. MAX doesn't come into the equasion and doesn't need to .

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of course you need to save them as seperate meshs and stick them togather in med as mdl only supports single texture maps.

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You built that house in MAX but we're not talking about MAX because he wants the final model in WED which I instructed him on how to do lol .

So where is JamesA?

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now the truck is a single mesh, 2 skins. glass area mapped to a 32 bit alpha tga image that is semi transparent.

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Grimber could you post the model please because I'm not sure exactly what you mean . You mean you have 2 skins attached in MED and the truck and the glass are as 1 mdl?

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only been capable of doing this since th 6.4 beta changes for mdl groups, materials and the changes with MED

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What I mean is I was doing a motorcycle for a client and wanted the spokes on an AT TGA Map and that was when 6.4 was out but I didn't know how to do it. I could only think of having the models separate to avoid the z buffer issues.

By the way, sorry about not getting the textures to you yet, I've just been slightly busy today but I promise you'll have them. I have your addy too. Hey I put a reminder in my signature too .

Wow it's true about that saying: "We learn something new everyday" .

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you could do the spokes as a texture.

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