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3 Dimensional Chat / Changing the opacity of SOME textures?

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QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 17th Jan 2004 01:32
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I'm level designing in 3ds max, and I want to be able to create things like gates and window panes, with effective transparency maps, if I set an opacity map for a texture in max and export it as a .x will DBP still consider the object to have opacity? Or do I have to make seperate objects?

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Posted: 17th Jan 2004 01:53
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You might want to try making the window textures png and setting transparency on that object in DBP. If it doesn't work, then you'd have to save it as a seperate object...

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QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 17th Jan 2004 03:34
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No...I gave it an opacity map...but no effect in game. Hm...

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Posted: 17th Jan 2004 10:53
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Just create an alpha channel for the texture and set the opacity to what you want. I've done it and it works great.


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walaber
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Posted: 17th Jan 2004 18:16
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yeah, set the transparency in your paint program, then save as a .png or .tga file. then you have to remember to

set object transparency objnum,1

or

set object transparency objnum,2

in DBPro, or else the transparent parts won't be..... transparent

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QuothTheRaven
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Actually, what I really need is a set alpha for limb command. Is there anything like this? Because I can isolate certain limbs of the level (it's .X), and if I could make like windows transparent, that'd be great, but I can't find any command that does that.

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AlecM
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Posted: 18th Jan 2004 00:52 Edited at: 18th Jan 2004 01:06
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"No...I gave it an opacity map...but no effect in game. Hm..."

The solution for this is a bit odd. IF you want to the opacity in the image then you must load the texture file into dbp and re-apply it. So if i remember correctly it should look like this:

load image texture.jpg,11
load object model.X, 1

texture object 1, 11
set object transparency 1

This is how the water in roswell racer was done.

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