Making a transparent texture?

Mj · Post by Mj » Thu Aug 19, 2004 12:26 am

I am currently trying to create a texture, with holes in, or a transparent one. Something visible, yet see through. But, the method is yet eluding me, after fiddling with PSP8 images and shaders i'm still having no luck

If anyone can help, I'd be most grateful

Mj

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:10 am

Create an alpha channel for your texture, color the transparent parts black and the solid parts white (in the alpha channel), save it as a 32 bit tga, use this shader:

textures/yourfolder/yourtexture
{
qer_keyword metal
surfaceparm metal
surfaceparm trans
cull none
{
map textures/yourfolder/yourtexture.tga
depthWrite
alphaFunc GE128
nextbundle
map $lightmap
rgbgen lightingDiffuse
}
}

Mj · Post by Mj » Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:22 am

Ahar! Thanks Balr

LeadHead · Post by **LeadHead** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:30 pm

question... how do u make alpha channels in paint shop pro 8?

i have been wondering that for a while but nobody seems to know

lizardkid · Post by **lizardkid** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:35 pm

make it a bitmap (use Paint) and import to PSP 8 for format changing. accessories>paint hopefully

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:36 am

I use photoshop. My version of PSP is too old and screws up TGAs pretty bad.

fuhrer · Post by **fuhrer** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:43 pm

i struggled for ages tryin to get that alpha channel crap in psp, never did get it

Post by **jv_map** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:10 pm

I think it's called a 'mask'

in psp, not overly sure though...