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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?

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.

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

Doesn't EOF let you do that?

never thought of that, lemme try

this is just so you dont hafta double post

didn't work, thx for that post hamster

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?

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?

Correct.

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

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