Transparent Shader not Transparent in game.

(Qexpres) #1

Hi,
I’ve made a transparent texture with Abobe Photoshop CS2 9.0 with an Alpha Channel. GTKRadiant displays the texture like I want him to see (It’s still a testtexture, so no comments about it please):

After I compiled it, ET shows the texture like a non-transparent texture:

I’ve tried many things, but I just can’t figue out what I’m doing wrong. I like the blue shadow and the shadow-side of it which isn’t darkened (which you can’t see on the picture :P), but can it at least be transparent for a little bit :(.
I hope you guys can help me. Here is my .shader:

textures/testmap/tutsss
{
	qer_trans 0.70
	qer_editorimage textures/testmap/tutsss.tga 
	cull disable 
	nopicmip 
	nocompress 
	nomipmaps
	surfaceparm nomarks
	surfaceparm lightfilter 
	surfaceparm nonsolid
	surfaceparm trans
	{
		map textures/testmap/tutsss.tga 
		blendfunc blend
		rgbgen identity
	}
}

EDIT: Thanks in advance. :slight_smile:

(Shaderman) #2

The shader seems to be ok. Is it possible that the alpha channel doesn’t have the structure of the bars and is complete white?

(EB) #3

http://www.quake3bits.com/htm/tutorials/bumpmaps_from_images_pt2.htm

http://fps.brainerd.net/paintshop5alpha.htm

(Qexpres) #4

Thank you for those tutorials EB, I’ll have a look at it.
My Alpha channel does have a structure, but my RGB Channel doesn’t. That isn’t necassary, is it? How else can you make semi-transparant then? Or I just don’t get it? My RBG Channel is just blue and my Alpha Channel has a structure (Black and White). My RGB Channel just has a blue color, because I want to use it for semi-transparent later.

Thanks for your help so far, though! :smiley:

(Detoeni) #5

you have “qer_trans” in your shader, this makes things transparent, you need “qer_alphafunc” to get the above effect, somethings not right.
RGB should be three channels.

(Qexpres) #6

Ok guys, I have it working. :smiley:
The solution was trying it on antoher ET I installed on my PC.
My normal ET is sort of fucked up…
Thanks for the help anyway! :slight_smile:

Greetz Qexpres