alpha in viewport prob.....pic included***UPDATE**

fritz

i don't have much experience w/alpha's. but i'm having a problem with the test i'm doing. can anyone shed some light on this one?

Josh_Singh

it's a sorting order problem. copy the one in front and delete the old one. that should fix it.
or if that dont work, make a copy of the back one and delete the old one. Yeah it's a ghetto solution I know.

fritz

what the hell...that is ggghhheetttttoooo. i mean...not the solution. but effin' MAX. thanks for chimin' in...it worked. i'm only wondering now what probs i'm going to get using a halfway decent amount of cards. oh well....

thanks again man!!!

cheers!!!!

MoP

Also, make sure your viewport transparency mode is set to "best" - right click in the top left of the viewport and look for "transparency" in that list, it might help.

CrazyButcher

viewport rasterizing is different from offline rendering (mostly rayshooting), sorting problems like that will likely always occur to a degree.

fritz

yeah...i pretty much always keep my transparency at best.

thanks for the replies guys.

fritz

OK...here's another prob i've encountered. i'm making some curls for a female character. once again, i've got a prob. here you go.

Josh_Singh

did you make that out of nurbs or something?

fritz

no. just a loft converted to an editble poly. that's not geo in there....i checked. all one smoothing group. doesn't show up in render...only viewport. but i need the viewport to be clean.

Eric Chadwick

Welcome to the wonderful world of real-time alpha sorting. Not much you can do about this, except choose Additive instead of Lerp, and turn off sorting altogether. Better yet, turn off 2-sided, and don't model each curl with 150 triangles.

fritz

thanks guys. guess i'll just have to deal with it. the final alpha will be more opaque anyways...this was just a test.

lerp? i'll have to look that one up.

CHEERS

cw

I dunno if ur using max or not, but i discovered to my delight after having some problems that max sorts polys in some wacky way, like the order in which they were created in the mesh - very odd.

also, if you have any problems with mesh sorting going strange in max, set the visibility to 0.999 which forces max to sort them properly instead of doing some half assed guesswork.

lovely max and the lovely bodging you have to do...

on the other hand, if that's not max you're using, good luck!

fritz

oh man. thanks wallasaurus, i am indeed using max. so i will try that first thing when i get home. thanks!!

fritz

i'm having a bit of a prob finding where to set the "visibility" in max. never had to do that before. anyone know? wallasaurus?

Psyk0

Right click object ---> object properties, ---> visibility. and thank you wallasaurys for this info .

fritz

oh...that area i checked five times...and didn't see it....cause i'm blind.

thanks psyko!

oh well...to no avail on the sorting issue. i'll keep tryin' stuff. thanks guys.

fritz

sorry to dig up an "oldie". but just in case anyone else experiences this prob. it was easily fixed by saving my hair textures out as an .fx file.