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Transparent textures????

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Florian

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I have copied the pieces of furniture in the terminal. But how can you ensure that textures become transparent? Because then you can look at to within.
 
Hi,

To make a texture, or part of it, transparant you will have to add an alpha channel to it. This is an extra channel of the image where black means that the pixel is fully transparant and white means that it is visible. Gray colors can be used for semi-transparant parts.

I don't know which tool you use to make your textures? Most painting programs do have an option to add the alpha channel directly. If you then save the image in a format that can store it as well (TGA, PSD) then ImageTool can read in the alpha channel very easily for you.
 
I do it with Imagetool

The program for the textures are The Gimp and Paint.Net

But the Alpha Channel does'nt work
 
And in what format are you importing the images into ImageTool then? It must be a format that is capable to saving the alpha channel as well.
 
arno said:
And in what format are you importing the images into ImageTool then? It must be a format that is capable to saving the alpha channel as well.
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I have tried:

32-bits
DXT1
DXT3
 
Import, not export. In what format are you reading the image into ImageTool. If that format is not capable of storing the alpha channel you made in your paint program, of course you see no transparancy.
 
As written above, you need to save your texture in a format that can store the alpha channel (TGA, PSD, etc). Normal BMP textures do not store the alpha channel.
 
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