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Post by mikeyj21 on Mar 2, 2005 13:50:40 GMT
Hi! Please could someone help a confused newbie?
I have a very basic scene in max, and one of my materials has a opacity map containing an alpha layer.
The entity within max renders with the appropriate transparency (it's a rectangle alpha-blended to look like a fence), but in the pipeline viewer (or indeed within blitz), the entity has no transparency.
Where am I going wrong?
Many thanks!
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OJay
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Post by OJay on Mar 2, 2005 19:38:02 GMT
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Post by mikeyj21 on Mar 3, 2005 19:53:15 GMT
Thanks for the reply!
Turns out I couldn't work out what to do because the plugins hadn't all installed.. so I never actually had the blitzMap texture map! A quick reinstall later, and everything fell into place!
Thanks again...
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Post by mikeyj21 on Mar 4, 2005 0:05:30 GMT
I'm still having problems, I'm afraid.
Could someone explain what I am doing wrong... everything looks fine in max, but I don't get transparency in the blitz viewer...
I have a .tiff file with an alpha channel.
I have a blitz3d texture map in my materials diffuse color map with the above file.
I have the same blitz3d texture map in my materials opacity channel.
Whatever I set the blend and flags to, I still do not get transparency (in the blitz viewer). (I have read the documentation!)
Please, please could someone explain where I have gone wrong?
Many, many thanks!
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OJay
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Post by OJay on Mar 4, 2005 16:25:53 GMT
i didnt know, that blitz3d is able to load TIFFs  use png or tga instead...apply an alphachannel on it and enable the "alpha"-flag in the b3dmap...thats all. really. |
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Post by mikeyj21 on Mar 6, 2005 23:27:02 GMT
Ah... that will be why, then!
Cheers!
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