Transparency

[JohnFricker]

I've got an object which has no textures and one transparent section. How do I make it so that when this object is loaded in DirectX the transparent section shows?

 

Thanks

John

Edited July 14, 2005 by JohnFricker

[Machaira]

Check my tutorial here. Hopefully this is what you mean.

[JohnFricker]

Not really, no.

 

I've got an X file with no textures which when loaded into Caligari's Truespace 6.5 it shows as http://objects.3d-reality.com/pp16.jpg (it was originally from a 3D Chat program called Active Worlds - but I modified the object so it is an X file).

 

Basically when I load it, it has no transparency. Only though creating a texture did it have any visual elements at all (the texture is white)

[Machaira]

I'm still not quite following you. When you load the mesh in your app how does it look different from how it appears in Truespace?

[JohnFricker]

The glass isn't transparent as it is in TrueSpace

[DrunkenHyena]

In Truespace, is it set as transparent via a material, a texture, or vertex colouring? You need to make sure the same thing is happening in D3D.

[JohnFricker]

Hmm.

 

Well it seems to be material because when I load the object the material loaded has ALPHA as 0.5 ish...approximately what I set in TS.

 

John

[JohnFricker]

How do I make DX display it???