hi,
i want to suround my level by a fence but you should be able to see the things behind the fence so how can i create this transparent areas? I made a tga data with transparent pixels but in my 3dgs wed it was only a white and not trancparent. I dont find any tutorials so i hope u can help me.
thanks

WED doesn't show transparent sprites, you have to build and run your level if you want to see the transparency. If you don't see any transparency in the level, try turning on the "flare" flag on your fence sprite.

(@Conitec: Hey, being able to view transparent sprites in WED would be a handy feature! )

Use black areas in your TGA for the "transparent" parts of your fence. Then in WED, set the "overlay" option on that model using the TGA (assuming you're using a model and not level architecture). FYI, the overlay effect in A7 is much better than A6's/

if you've built and run the level without seeing transparency, just set the "transparent" flag in WED or TRANSLUCENT via script. often that's needed to "turn on" tga transparency (not everyone wants their tgas to always have transparency).

^^ try this before flare or overlay because flare and overlay work independently of your alpha channel and you want to make sure your alpha channel works.

julz

first of all thanks for your fast answers.
i have to say that i'm very new in this business so i have some questions :

to MrCode : i built my level and startet but all i saw were white areas instead of
transparency. so now i've got another quwstion : what's the flare flag and can you say me where i can find or change it in "the gimp 2" (a picture editing programm)

to Galen : i would prefer to use level architectures because its faster to build but i am sure i will need this usefull hint later for some models so where i can find the overlay option?

to JulzMightv : i'm a noob i haven't really worked with scripting a lot so im not able to do this

thnks for all your help and time and i think we'll solve this problem ;-)

What do you think about this?
For your entities:

while (1)
{
if (vec_dist(my.x,camera.x)>?????){my.invisible=on;}else{my.invisible=off;}
......

could be,that I misunderstood your problem,my english is not so good!

ja hast du .
ich denk ma dass du deutsch sprichst wegen deinem kommentar "programmierer sind code-nascher" .
also... ich möchte einen zaun im wed erstellen : ne wand bauen und dann ne zaunbitmap dran aber mein problem is dass man durch den zaun durchgucken kann aber ich weis nich wie ich die transparenten pixel machen kann die die lücken füllen wo man durchgucken kann. ich werd die technik später nich nur für wed sondern auch med brauchen weil ich ja auch büsche und bäume machen möchte. desswegen hab ich hier gepostet , wegen der transparenz

gruß CHICKEN

in WED, right-click on your fence entity and select Properties and find the Transparent checkbox. make sure it's on, build the level, and run. if that doesn't work i can't imagine what's wrong so try overlay or flare (also in Properties).

julz

i did and it worked . i really had to turn on this option.
thank you juz you helped me a lot.
but what i want to know too : is there a way to make e.g. walls as a fence because that would be much easier if i want to build a long row of them.
thanks again julz

no problem mate happy to help.

do you mean a WED wall? that wouldn't work because they don't display transparency.

glad to see it's working!

julz