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im sorta having troubles with the tga support on fitzquake and the transparencies. I made my texture, made sure it had an alpha layer, put it in textures/texname.tga , it loaded in my map. but the transparency is white! whats wrong? anyone help please?

example:

Get me screenshot of what it is supposed to look like and I'll think about adding it to the modified FitzQuake I made you.

Need:

1. Screenshot of what it is supposed to look like
2. Name of Quake engine you used for screenshot (FTEQW or whatever)
3. The map + textures needed to test against.

Those are brushes that are part of the map, right? Not some other type of thing that Quake doesn't normally support, right?

it's half-life bsp in the fitz plus engine you directed me to. and a tga with a alpha channel. ill upload the texture and the map.

tga_problem.zip

preview

here's the psd. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C1NNHV6N

that tga might be a little off. if you open it up in an editor and it still has a white background. thats the wrong one.

PS: i think i may know why it's happening. i just opened up my tga and it has a white layer. still... i think somethings up with that ill see if i can fix it.

it seem's that tga's wont save with an alpha... it automatically fills in white.

I know you took that screenshot in the modified FitzQuake.

Actually, what I meant is load up the map in some other Quake engine where this feature is working like FTEQW or something and take a screenshot (and let me know what engine you took the screenshot in, like if you used FTEQW for the correct looking version screenshot).

But yeah, try to fix the texture first obviously.

.tgas use a serprate alpha channel. In photoshop select all the areas you want transparent and then goto the channels tab and click add a new channel. You may need to invert the channel (I can nerver rembear if black is transparent or not ).

ahh okay, let me try that.

arkage, i did it your way and no go either. im going to download fte since darkplaces hlbsp is messed atm. and see if my map runs okay in that.

it does the same in fte... -.-

That feature doesn't work in FitzQuake. Try the RMQ engine which has support for it (prefix the texture name with a '{' to enable it).

does the rmq support hlbsp, full md3 support, csqc, and frikfile?

these seem to be the key features i need which the only netquake engine i know which supports all of these is darkplaces, but its hlbsp is broken atm.

hmm maybe its work. Dont know but here is an tut for tga:

http://paulyg.f2s.com/prog8.htm

says something about glut32 missing.

i was looking through the darkplaces website and it says that photoshop has issues saving the tga right, that gimp can do it. so im going to download gimp and see if it fixes the problem.

ceriux wrote:says something about glut32 missing.

i was looking through the darkplaces website and it says that photoshop has issues saving the tga right, that gimp can do it. so im going to download gimp and see if it fixes the problem.

It's not an issue WITH photoshop. It's an issue on how you're saving it. Most likely. I've saved transparent TGA's all the time from Photoshop. (including, cs, cs2, cs3, and cs5) How are you saving the tga out of photoshop? 24-bit, 32-bit?
For transparency you will want 32-bit without RLE compression.

can you type of the steps you use please?

you can use PaintNet i use it for HL2 textures

ceriux wrote:does the rmq support hlbsp, full md3 support, csqc, and frikfile?

these seem to be the key features i need which the only netquake engine i know which supports all of these is darkplaces, but its hlbsp is broken atm.

No, no, no and yes.

Of the "no"s:

• hlbsp isn't an essential feature for RMQ so it's unlikely to happen. We have talked about BSP formats and the thing is that hlbsp just doesn't solve the problems we're having (vertex limits and lack of detail brushes being the big two).
• md3 support might be on the list; model formats are another topic of occasional discussion.
• CSQC is likely to happen; it might not be full-blown CSQC but rather a subset for the specific requirements of the mod.

i mainly need csqc for hud support. , i need md3 and the tag attachements for character customization and visual equips, hlbsp for better textures and a map editor i excel at .