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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Transparent enemy with 1.17?

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King Of Khaos
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Posted: 1st Oct 2010 22:54 Edited at: 1st Oct 2010 22:58
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A while back, before v1.17 was released, i had successfully made an enemy invisible. When making a texture that was pure black didn't work, i just exported an area of an empty transparent project from gimp, and tried that. It did work, my enemy was completely invisible. But now, ever since i upgraded to 1.17, even with that transparent texture applied to the enemy, they appear all black, but visible. It's a TGA image. And even though it had worked before in that format, i still tried it as a DDS. The enemy is still black. I even tried making an entire different transparent image the same way, (in case the previous one was corrupt or something) and the enemy still shows up black. I haven't used FPSC in quite a while, and i'm just now getting back to it, so i'm still in the process of refreshing my memory. Is there anything else i need to do besides just apply the transparent texture to the "Texture" field in the in-game properties? Or does this just have something to do with v1.17?
If so, is there any way to fix/bypass the issue?

I hope you guys understand what i'm talking about...

Cheers, Jake
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Seth Black
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2010 17:25
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...turning shaders on should solve this problem.

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King Of Khaos
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2010 01:22
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But shaders are on. It doesn't help.

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Seth Black
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2010 08:01
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...hmmmn.

With shaders on, try slapping this on it.

DL attached.

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Brunopark09
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2010 08:55
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Mmm, maybe if you set trasnparency to 2 the enemy will turn invisible

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uzi idiot
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2010 15:38
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try using an alpha channel to make it transparent.
use gimp or photoshop to do this.

good frame rates matter...
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King Of Khaos
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2010 22:55 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2010 23:02
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@ Seth Black - The enemy still appears black... I have no idea what could be causing this...

@ uzi idiot - What do you mean? This is kind of a stupid question but... What exactly is an alpha channel?

EDIT: Are there any other visual properties that need to be set to something specific?

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Mr illusionest
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2010 23:04
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@King OF Khoas:

When I try to make a character transperet , my picture is a .png one made in Microsoft Powerpoint , I attached it .

Hope it works .
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King Of Khaos
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2010 23:12 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2010 23:14
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Wow... I haven't used FPSC in so long, i forgot that if you want a setting on/changed, you have to do it in "preferences", THEN "build game". That was awful stupid of me... I'm sorry for waisting your time guys. I do appreciate you trying to help me though. Thanks.

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Posted: 4th Oct 2010 09:59
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if that didnt work i've attached a transparent dds file that'll work.

good frame rates matter...
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King Of Khaos
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Posted: 4th Oct 2010 15:19
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@ uzi idiot - It's working fine now, i just forgot that you have to change the preferences before you can even change the build game settings. I haven't used FPSC in a while, and i'm just getting back into it, so i've forgotten some things. I feel kinda stupid now... But thanks everyone, i still appreciate you trying to help.

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@King Of Khoas

An Alpha channel is a layer of transparency in a image, I'm not really sure why it's called a Aplha channel but I'm sure it has a good explanation why it is.

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