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Semi-Transparent Materials?

June 16, 2009 - 06:49 — Binxalot

Is it possible to use the shaders that come with the kilowatt animation processor to show transparency in images? I have PNG files which have alpha channels but those areas show as white when I view the models with the animation viewer. Is it possible to use images with alpha transparency? And is it possible to have semi-transparent materials like glass?

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June 16, 2009 - 13:11 — jwatte
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The sample "archer" uses

The sample "archer" uses transparency both for the hair and for the bow.

June 16, 2009 - 17:19 — Anonymous

Thanks

I didn't realize that I needed to use the diffusexparent shader in max, I thought xparent was refering to the parent object which now that I read it again makes perfect sense, xparent, as in transparent. I was using png files for transparency, but I can see that it needs to be in tga for it to work. My models look good now, thanks for an awesome animation processor!