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P3D v4 [SOLVED] No Transparency on ground polys.

Bownsy105

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I'm attempting to get some ground polys into P3D, however I cannot seem to get any tranprency working. (The black should be transparent)
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I used photoshop to export the textures to DXT5. When I open the textures in DXT1 Bitmap the Alpha channel is clearly intact. I attempted to convert the textures from PNG using MCX's texture converter tool, but also to no avail.

Similarly, non of the textures show any transparency when viewed in MCX either. I'm assuming it's something wrong in the material settings in MCX. But having messed around with variouse settings I'm really not sure where to begin with troubleshooting this. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
 
From which format and tool do you import the data into MCX?

If an alpha channel is there it should normally be picked up. If you export as P3D MDL files for the ground polygons, the material settings need to be correct for the alpha channel to work as well.
 
Hello.
Your textures should be in DXT5 DDS format with an alpha channel. (Keep in mind that DDS textures are vertically flipped when rendered, so be sure to flip your texture and alpha channel) In Model Converted X, you should change the following texture settings:

alpha.JPG
 
It would still be interesting from which format you import, because in most cases those settings should be set for you automatically when a texture with an alpha channel is detected.
 
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