Transparent .png not transparent

[Damm]

and this is what the image looks like in Max

[Marcel]

I don't know if Max supports the transparency for the PNG file format, but for a TGA image you have to set following settings for the bitmap in the opacity slot:

Alpha source to 'image alpha'
Mono channel output to 'Alpha'

Ofcourse it would be much easier to save the alpha in a seperate file, and use that bitmap in the opacity map...

[Damm]

thnx.. yeah well i need to use a transparent .png...
i'm making a game with the Torque engine and it only support transparent .png... the strange thing is that they write in the Torque doc to use transparent .png in max.. hmm... ok i read the doc again and it doesn't say anything about using .png. but it says that i don't need to put an alpha map texture in the opacity slot tho...
but then i could use .tga...

[Rurouni]

like Marcel said, you put your bitmap in the diffuse and opacity. in the opacity channel, change the mono channel output to alpha.
and yes, it worked with png.

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