Transparent Textures?

[Lean Bear]

What are transparent textures. Are they actually transparent?

What can they be used for? Can they make objects appear "invisible"?

Also, does making transparent textures have anythin to do with the Alpha channel you can put in a TGA file?

[DBR_ONIX]

yeah, to make a trsnparent TGA file, you have a alpha chanel covering the whole image..
Yeah, it will make the object apper invisble, and, yes, you can use setobjecttexture on them
Heheh
Anyone know where that tutorial on setobjecttexture and hidden selections is?
- Ben

[Lean Bear]

Cool. I use Adobe Photoshop which has a TGA file option. But I dunno if there is an alpha channel or not.

I found those tutorials on Google

Here are the links. There isn't a link from the main news page (wierd :-\)

The SetObjectTexture tut:-
http://fab.ofp.free.fr/Tutorials/SetObjectTexture.htm

The Hidden Selections tut:-
http://fab.ofp.free.fr/Tutorials/Hidden_Selections.htm

edit
I just knew there was a main page with more than just the news.

You can find the above tuts and more from here:-
http://fab.ofp.free.fr/