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FSXA Alpha/Diffuse

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Arno,... Hello,...

I know you have the alpha click within the material editor of MCX, would it be possible to add that to the minimizer as well,.. I know you plan on joining these up (material and minimizer/convert tabs.... ) together,.. maybe have it pop up with the diffuse and the alpha side my side, maybe?

so in that sense you can even remove the alpha click,... if when mouse goes over the name of the diffuse both the diffuse and alpha of that texture appears.
 
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Hi,

What would the alpha button do in the drawcall minimizer? Now the other material settings are untouched when minimizing, it is just the textures that are combined.
 
arno said:
Hi,

What would the alpha button do in the drawcall minimizer? Now the other material settings are untouched when minimizing, it is just the textures that are combined.
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Well,.. I know your planning to combine the 3 ( Material Editor, Mass Texture Editor, and Drawcall Minimizer),... I'm only suggesting that like the Mass Texture Editor, a pop up screen shows the diffuse along with its size underneath when the mouse is over the name of the Texture,... would it be possible to also show the Alpha at that time? or within the Material Editor having it show both the diffuse along with the alpha side by side. I don't think that this would be useful within the drawcall minimizer, unless or when the user can choose which textures to minimize (getting a visual of which textures) to combine into a single texture sheet.

Or did I misunderstand what your asking?
 
Hi,

Ah, thanks, now I get it. I misunderstood you and thought you wanted a "Set Default Transparent" button on the drawcall minimizer as well.

In the current alpha version the texture part of the new material editor looks like the attached image. I still have to see how to show the alpha channel in there. I would prefer to show a picture of it.
 

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Great,... then I didn't have to ask,... it was already there or in the works! :D
Thanks again, Arno!
 
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