posted 06-06- 10:17 AM               

My setup is as follows:

Qme: produces .MDL files
MDL2FSD
FSD2LOD
LOD2

The resulting .OBJ is then fed into OPS

This makes the models, and i've even been able to produce nice textures. Only you can't see through any of them.

With the new Beta of OPS ( Brilliant ) I can play with textures and don't have to keep reloading the model but still no joy.

I renamed an imported object with .\common\textures\TransGrad and it goes black. Tried it with Transparent and got a lovely bright red! Looked that way in the game too. Are these actually transparent textures?

I found a shareware program 3D explorer which supported transparency, made an object transparent, imported it into OPS, RED AGAIN....

Can somebody send me a simple object with a transparent texture for me to pull apart?

I look in existing models, 'Extractor' them and I can't find a texture that is see through. Where does the game reference this data from?

I understand that my choice of modelling tools may be the root cause of it, but I have no money to spend, otherwise I'd buy AC3D. SV replied to a previous post of mine on this problem, but I can't make use of it in the shareware version since it will not save or export. Is workaround?

HELP HELP HELP........

If I don't get this cracked I may go mad, or worse still start playing Red Baron......
I'm not bluffing, I'll do it...

posted 06-06- 02:53 PM               

THE TAILGUNNER HAS DONE IT !!!!!!!!

Small potatoes for some, but I finally sorted out the problem. My textures were missing the alpha channel bit. I switched my paint program for photoshop after reading an old post from last year, and it worked.

I now have a messerschmidt with a see-through tailfin..........

next stop Me262b. I did all the other bits but couldn't do a canopy. Now I can.

My Do335 can have windows

My Ju488 can have some windows

Bismark can have a glass bottom ( joke )

and if i can make a plane that flies better than a house-brick, next stop me110 or 410

p.s.

posted 06-06- 02:58 PM               

1. Use a tif file for the texture that has an alpha chanel, this is the transparency level. You can edit this in Adobe Photoshop and some other programs.

2. Use Hippie's extractor to create the .asc file. Now look for the texture entry near the top for the transparent texture in question. See the flags for the texture? the flag needs to be set to allow the use of the alpha channel. My site explians this in detail with the flag numbers needed.

3. There are also flags in the LOD file itself. If you ens up seeing a flickering texture, a flag or flags in the LOD is incorrect. My site also explains this as well.

You can use textures like this to create glass, blurred props, and shadows, etc.

What are you trying to do?

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WWI in SDOE!

posted 06-06- 03:09 PM               

Post pictures like this:

[img] place url here [/img]

Just leave off the spaces inside the tag though...

posted 06-06- 08:58 PM               

BTW, you should make sure the texture flags are set right. As well as SV's method you can also just double click on the texture in OPS and a dialog with all of the options will come up. For this, RGBA should be checked and RGB and A should be unchecked.

It is possible that a texture will show up as transparent in OPS without these flags set right, and therefore be solid in SDOE.

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posted 06-07- 07:38 AM               

I've had a sift through your tutorials on LOD's SV, and it;s just as well I did. My transparent texture was based on an existing one, and it had the flags already set. 802223 or some such.

If I built one from scratch without this, I could have run into problems.

By the way, OPS 1.3 is absolutely brilliant. A few little tweaks over 1.2.1 made all the difference when you need to experiment.

I don't have to keep reloading, I can change names for textures etc. and I don't need to keep extracting and building