Alpha for meshes

[Kaliyo]

Is possible to add alpha channel for Soma models? Similar to Skyrim's nif where it's possible to cut some parts of texture and these empty parts will be rendered as simple transparent for model. I see none that property in .ent

[Romulator]

The alpha channel is applied in the Material editor. I cannot recall exactly how you do it, but its either:

• You make any transparent area black, and the visible areas white.
  
• Or you give 0 alpha area to anything which is invisible, and 255 alpha white to anything visible.

If you want to experiment, the particular material I loaded is located in: entities\creatures\crust\vent_crab

And the actual alpha image is in the same folder, appropriately titled: vent_crab_alpha.dds

[Mudbill]

Yes, as said above, just apply it through the material editor. However, remember to add the channel when you export the texture. In .tga and .dds files, you can add an alpha channel to filter the opacity. In the editor, I believe you add the Alpha blend mode (although it doesn't look to be the case in the screenshot above).

Edit: (Oh, right, yeah instead of the blend mode you can use the Alpha texture unit check box to apply it as a separate file.)

[Kaliyo]

Thank you, it worked!