a texture doesnt work - opacity Created 13 years ago2011-01-23 14:42:39 UTC by ninja defuse

screen -> http://i.imgur.com/QQXKw.jpg
texture -> http://i.imgur.com/xJlWv.png (the image hosting website converted bmp -> png)

func_wall
render mode: solid
fx ammount: 255

and it's not appearing at all? All i can really see in that picture is a few stained glass windows - its very dark

Make sure that the color that's supposed to be transparent is also index 255 on the color palette, firstly.

Ninja'd soup, i was right in the middle of an edit with that addition.

and it's not appearing at all? All i can really see in that picture is a few stained glass windows - its very dark

hey i run my monitor with brighness 50 and contrast 50 and my hl1 settings are default

Make sure that the color that's supposed to be transparent is also index 255 on the color palette, firstly.

yes

That's not the palette index.
There's 256 colors in your texture's color palette. Index 256 (and it's 256, not 255, whoops) is a special color, because that color can become transparent.

Edit: Or I guess it technically is index 255 because it starts with 0 and all that jazz.

Just open the fucker in Wally and see if the very bottom right color on the palette is the color you want it to be.

edit: ok

so what should i do?

He just told you. Lol.

RGB: 0, 0, 255 Index: 17

Adam Savage would say, "Well there's your problem!"

You'll have to change the transparent area from the color it is now to whatever is the very last color in the palette. Just bucket filling it in Wally would be fine.

Your index has to be 255 as well.

Adam Savage would say, "Well there's your problem!"

QFT!

for some reason gimp is getting crazy

edit: doesnt work lololololololol

I wouldn't recommend using GIMP. You can't paint straight from the palette AFAIK.
like I said, just bucket fill in Wally.

Like Soup Miner says, do it in Wally: http://www.egir.dk/index.php?page=wal_transparent/wal_transparent.html

Also the texture name has to start with a {. Eg. '{cloth'. Don't forget that, or it still won't work.

i saved that texture as 256 color bitmap in paint
ok it works so far

yeah, the texture transparency can be a real PITA with GoldSrc.. The egir.dk tutorial killer-duck mentioned is pretty good.

If you still can't get it figured, check out the tutorial by NinjaGrinch referenced in this thread.