Translucency

Clawfford · Post by **Clawfford** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 5:49 pm

How do I get translucent textures on objects such as the wine glasses in Zoon Kitchen 2? Can the technique be used to make realistic windows in trucks?

Clawfford, the Big Red Cat
www.gameroom.com/clawfford

Malibu350 · Post by **Malibu350** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 8:20 pm

Make a solid black (r0,b0,g0) 64x64 texture with single pixels of whatever color you want the tint to be... this is a crappy example, but just to get the idea....

then you select all the faces that you want to be tinted and open up binmapper. select all the vertice points in the mapper and push them all together in a corner until thay all are on top of each other (one point). then move that group next to any of the colored pixels and press ok to finish mapping. that's it.

you can also create L or U shapes with the colored pixels on the texture to create a darker tint by covering more than one side of the vertice group.

and.. you can layer faces on top/behind each other with different colors to create different shades/effects.

one thing to keep in mind is these tranparent faces must be added last to your model or everything behind them will appear transparent as well.

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>>>Can the technique be used to make realistic windows in trucks?

yes, I've done an entire truck body and it worked, except in some camera angles portions of the interior were rendered invisible.

I've probably made 50 trucks in the past several weeks that I never uploaded lol, I just play around with things to see what works and what doesn't then toss em in the trash can.

(I may release my forklift tho if someone ever finshes the warehouse lol)

Clawfford · Post by **Clawfford** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:48 pm

(I may release my forklift tho if someone ever finshes the warehouse lol)

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Release it! Release it! I manage a warehouse and drive a forklift regularly! (A "CAT" of course!)

Clawfford, the Big Red Cat
www.gameroom.com/clawfford

MIYH · Post by **MIYH** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:17 pm

hmmm....Malibu left out the link
http://malibu350.com/tnt/transfaces.htm

ZOtm_BigDOGGe · Post by **ZOtm_BigDOGGe** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:34 am

Can the technique be used to make realistic windows in trucks?

Take a look at the windows on Cherry Bomb....I used the same method on the ZK2 glasses (the method Malibu described)

In fact Mal still has a page at his site on the subject:

http://rhinoseros.com/~malibu350/tnt/transfaces.htm

ch_2005 · Post by **ch_2005** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:54 am

I made a forklift once. It's forks went up and down

it was neat - it looked like an animated model on a truck

BigDogge can vouch for that i believe.
I seem to have lost it. Anyone have a copy of it?
THat was from way before my last hard drive crash.

ZOtm_BigDOGGe · Post by **ZOtm_BigDOGGe** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:33 pm

I thought I had a copy of it, but I don't see it on the half-dozen or so truck archive CDs I have close by.....

I'll do some deeper digging later...

Malibu350 · Post by **Malibu350** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 11:03 pm

hmmm....Malibu left out the link

Imagine that lol... ya know, somewhere in the back of my mind while I was typing above I remembered discussing it with zoon, and helping him with it, and planning on putting up a help page about it someday but completely drew a blank on ever doing it... Phin's right, I am getting old, I guess he'd know... I should listen :o)

lol... anyway thanks for the link miyh, somehow I missed your post a few weeks back hence my delayed response..