Transparency in 3ds Max 8?

Slaught

I´m having trouble with the alpha mapping on my low poly samurai.
Of course I´m not stupid and tried to google for some tutorials...found this one http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/3751020023/m/3761087023
Problem is that it´s not working

Maybe someone ran into trouble with alpha´s before and could help me out.

Thx in advance!

Mark Dygert

Anything wrong with putting your alpha texture in the opacity map slot?

Slaught

Not sure.
As far as i can see Max doesn´t recognize the alpha channel I set up in Photoshop.

I don´t think I did anything wrong tho.

Mark Dygert

Is there some reason it needs to be on an alpha channel? Does the game you are working with require the opacity map to be in the alpha channel. Max normally uses a separate map. Just save your alpha channel as its own texture and put it in the opacity slot a few maps down from defuse.

I have the same trouble btw and thats how I get around it. It hasn't worked since Max5. Not sure why, I think they are just forcing people to use the opacity slot?

Slaught

Thanks.
I´ll try that :]

Joao Sapiro

hm...you want to view transparency realtime ? if yes , go to costumize ----> viewport configuration , and set Transparency to "best"

Slaught

Finally got it to work.

Thanks again guys!

Noren

If you want to use the alpha channel, set the "AlphaSource" to "ImageAlpha" and the "Mono Channel Output" to "Alpha" in your bitmap parameters. You have still to use the opacity slot but don't need an extra texture.