Irrlicht Engine

Hi all!

I've got a model with an alpha-texture, so when i want to make it transparent i'm using the EMT_TRANSPARENT_ALPHA_CHANNEL type, right?
well when i use it it looks like this:



i mean the smoothness... is this possible with the engine?

thank you a lot!
Mathew[/img]

Ooops sorry

the first pic is:

it looks like image 1 has alpha testing transparancy, while image 2 has alpha blending transparancy. i'm not sure if this works correctly in irrlicht with both opengl and directx, it didn't before i started using irrlichtnx instead(one of the main reasons for the switch)

Thank you for you answer!

The documentation says that EMT_TRANSPARENT_ALPHA_CHANNEL uses alpha blending, so what could it be!?

Well this might be a longshot but is the image in alpha channel smooth or are the edges jagged?

Is it something like this:


or more like this:


(The first one is better)

Thanks, but i don't think this is the problem, because on both screenshots there is the same alpha channel!

Ok more longshots.
What material settings are you using? Have you tried changeing the MaterialTypeParam? Lower values make the blending smoother.

Also what image format are you using? I haven't been able to get the blending work properly with png images, how about trying a tga image?

Changing the MaterialTypeParam doesn't have any effect i'm using tga, i also tried png but both doesn't work

Ok, sorry I'm out of ideas. Can't imagine why it won't work for you. Maybe you can post or send me the texture so I can test it?

This would be very nice =D http://compandmore.ath.cx/Ch_Schneetanne.tga maybe you'll have more luck [/url]

I don't think there's an easy way to make it blend like in the first picture. I tried to fiddle with it but no luck. This is the best I could do but I don't think it will look very good: Ch_Schneetanne-2.tga.

elise: are youre a german female?? wow ... a female programmer is already a big _wow_ but a german one is not possible (just thought youre german because of the name Elise and the Schneetanne-2.tga which are both german words)

Tahnk you a lot for your effort !!!! Didn't help much but looks little better now =D

@GFXstyLER: the texture was named by me

I don't understand the problem. When i load the sample cone with the first texture and use EMT_TRANSPARENT_ALPHA_CHANNEL with MaterialTypeParam=254 all looks very close to the first pic. Could you post your model?

GFXstyLER wrote:elise: are youre a german female??

Nope not german, it was DaMathew's file.