transparent rocks

AbeFroman · Post by **AbeFroman** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:51 pm

i want to turn some of the rocks on b40 into hunks of ice, so i want them to be half transparent, i've tried simple things like half opacity eraser in photoshop and re-injecting but that didn't work

how do i do this?

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:57 pm

The textures can't be DXT1, save as a DXT 3 file and inject.

DXT1 have a one-bit alpha, meaning that it's either black or white, on or off, full transparent or solid.

Others have whats called an Explicit Alpha, which is any shade of gray you can make. The more black I believe the more solid-looking it is.

There's your lesson for the day. And you thought school was over.

AbeFroman · Post by **AbeFroman** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:00 pm

when i try to save it as a dxt3 it gives me an error and won't inject

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:00 pm

Doesn't EOF let you do that?

AbeFroman · Post by **AbeFroman** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:01 pm

never thought of that, lemme try

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:02 pm

this is just so you dont hafta double post

AbeFroman · Post by **AbeFroman** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:03 pm

didn't work, thx for that post hamster

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:03 pm

Here, find a DXT2/3 texture you dont need (good luck?) and inject your bitmap (size doesn't matter, i know EOF does that). Then under the mod2 tag of the rock in a dependancy swapper, find the shader reference, and under that, find the bitmap reference for the main rock texture, and change it to your texture.

Confused?

AbeFroman · Post by **AbeFroman** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:10 pm

nope, just need help finding a dxt3 that i don't need, can u help?

i don't need the multiplayer ally locator thingy in SP, right?

edit: for altering the alpha layer it's white is visible and black is transparent, right?

xbox · Post by **xbox** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:32 pm

Correct.

AbeFroman · Post by **AbeFroman** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:47 pm

edit2: nevermind, i got it working, had to do some searches and mix some tutorials i found and a little of what i learned here in order to get it to work though

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:59 am

Black on the multipurpose, but it has to be the correct picture format.