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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / TreeMagik texture not transparent - What am I doing wrong?

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pamercomov
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2015 10:02
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hi everyone.
i´m a newbie and i dont know what i´m doing wrong....

i´ve 1 object created whith treemagic, in .x format.
it is ok.

but when I load the object, the texture does not appear transparent.
use textures that produces the program itself, it´s png format.

i´ve set display mode to 32 bits ...

help me. please.

this is my code:



i think is ok, but no alpha transparency
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Rudolpho
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2015 11:15
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You need to manually tell the object to use the alpha channel for transparency; if you're using the built-in shaders (ie. not writing your own) this is done using the set object transparency function.

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pamercomov
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2015 16:05
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oh...thanks.
i see previous post this comands, but i think is for object alpha.

its perfect.

i dont understand why this features isnt automatic when i set 32 bits and uses png, but its no problem.
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MrValentine
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2015 19:22
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32 bits, display colour?

It just means you have full colour capabilities.......

Someone correct me if there is more to it however ^^

An Effect that was automatic as Alpha transparency, would be just as annoying as not having it....... Food for thought...



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Rudolpho
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2015 22:44
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Quote: "i see previous post this comands, but i think is for object alpha."

Quote: "i dont understand why this features isnt automatic when i set 32 bits and uses png, but its no problem."

An alpha channel really stores "any" non-colour information, it doesn't have to be transparency (though most of the time it probably is).

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Chris Tate
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Posted: 5th Jan 2015 15:56
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Quote: "An alpha channel really stores "any" non-colour information, it doesn't have to be transparency (though most of the time it probably is)."


Indeed, other common uses of the alpha channel in the gaming industry is the height or specular properties of a texture.

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Clonkex
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Posted: 6th Jan 2015 01:22
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I've renamed your thread title to something that actually describes your problem. In future, please try to be more specific with your thread titles (so instead of saying "What am I doing wrong?", you might say "Object not loading with correct rotations" or "Texture not displaying correctly" ).


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