transparent textures Created 12 years ago2011-06-08 03:06:29 UTC by platoon

hello..
i want to make a tree model, i tried everything i know so far...
there is tutorial about that but problem is i can't use png file to compile model.I'm tried to use bmp file but when i decrease color depth to 256 Colors (8 BPP) alpha channels disappear and i cant make it transparent (also i cant do that in model viewer). I'm using "irfan viewer" to convert, because if i don't do that milkshape crashes im tried use PAÝNT.NET program too but its not working

if anyone know how can i figure it out it will be very grateful
maybe some other way to convert it, maybe another program ...

waiting for help, thanks...

um, get photoshop?

The 255th color in a HL model texture can be used as an alpha channel; make the model, then either make it alpha in the .QC, or in HLMV if you're using a version that supports it.

How can I convert it to 255th texture? Maybe the problem is my programs (paint etc.) and I can't install Photoshop sorry it's too huge files I can't download. Also can you tell me how can I make alpha channel in .qc? I didn't heard about it before
Thanks...

The 255th color is the last color in the palette, which by default is pure blue (R=0,G=0,B=255). You'll also need to put the line

$texrendermode "<texture name>.bmp" "transparent"

in the .qc.