3dsmax - tiled alpha issue

Joshua Stubbles

I haven't had this happen in a long time and I never knew what it was back then, either. Non tiled alpha displays perfectly fine in my viewports, but there's a distinct alpha seam once they get tiled. I just wanted to know if anyone has had similar issues, and knows how to resolve it.
I have viewport alpha set to "BEST". I also tried in Max2008, with the viewports set to "BEST" for SM3.0. Still no dice. Here's a pic:




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The only way I've seen it work is if I keep all of the UVs in the 0,1 box, and tile the material in the material editor. Sadly, that's not exactly compatible with the format I'm working with.

Sage

It might just be a Max display issue. I was told on these forums that its a display issue, but it might be more than that in your case. I suggest you bring it into your engine and see if it's fine there.

Alex

MoP

It's definitely a Max display issue. I'm pretty sure there's a way around it but I can't remember offhand what it is.

Xenobond

Is this problem popping up with an embedded alpha, or separate image used as an alpha?

Sage

I think this happens with any alpha that's tiled.

Alex

Joshua Stubbles

Yeah I've tried both types, and it does the same thing. I haven't seen this since max6-7 a few years back. Maybe I just didn't tile much alpha since then...
It looks fine in the engine, it's just super annoying to deal with while working on the texture.

Eric Chadwick

Software display driver is the only way AFAIK.

Joshua Stubbles

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Ouch. Thanks guys

Funky Bunnies

I've never gotten software to display it correctly, is there something I'm doing wrong?

Whenever I can get away with it for previewing, I usually just apply a duplicate material without alpha to the faces at the borders.

Joshua Stubbles

Software displays it fine automatically for me, but it has it's own visual artifacts that renders it useless. As the objects moves out of screen space, it starts warping the UVs, so that isn't really helpful :P

Eric Chadwick

Did you turn on Texture Correction? A little slower, but should fix the squirmies.