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jwatte · DeleD PRO user Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 513

I have a number of textures where the alpha channel is either bump displacement, or a gloss map. When I use these in DeleD, they all turn up as transparent. I really can't use DeleD with these textures until a checkbox shows up per material (or texture), allowing me to mark that texture as not transparent.

So, here's my feature request: Allow textures with alpha to create materials that aren't transparent.

Jeroen · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 5:58 am Post subject:

Moved to Feature Request forum. Smile

PJ will pick up on this one, I'm sure!

Paul-Jan · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 12:02 pm Post subject:

Unless there is a bug I don't know about, this behaviour (i.e. "not threating the alpha channel as transparency") is the default unless you explicitly set the blendmode to alphablend. If you leave it at "replace" for those textures, things should work the way you want them to?

Could you confirm that is what you were looking for? Or should I be moving this post to the bug forum?

Daaark · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject:

Texture files with alpha channels also show up transparent in the material editor directory listing. When you create a texture object / material out of it, you have to set it to alpha to make it transparent.
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jwatte · DeleD PRO user Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 513

Yes, I noticed that it actually works the way I want it in the modeler, but not in the material editor/preview. So this is a feature request (or bug?) only regarding the material editor.

Daaark · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 2:16 am Post subject:

jwatte · DeleD PRO user Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 513

The problem is that when your texture has mostly black alpha, you don't actually see the texture. When you have lots of textures with similar names, it gets tricky to pick the right one.

Paul-Jan · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 11:50 am Post subject:

I understand what you mean now. This would be a problem
(a) in the texture preview of the 3 separate layers
(b) in the texture folder view

What we could do is have a little switch somewhere in the ME interface that toggles alpha preview in the folder view, solving (b).

I'm not too sure yet if the switch should toggle alpha preview in all of the material editor at once, or if (a) should be handled separately. An alternative option for (a) would be to only show the alpha channel if the mode is already set to alphablend.

And for convenience we could make alphablend the default for a newly created material layer if the switch for (b) is set to on and the texture does indeed have an alpha channel.

Something like that, or am I missing some details?

Daaark · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject:

jwatte · DeleD PRO user Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 513

I use flat display.

Yes, such a switch would help.