Creating texture for glass windows

[john_doe 12]

Hi guys!

 

I've been fiddling around with creating a texture for glass windows in ArmA 3.

Now i've come to the point where i know i need a .tga with transparency and convert it to a DXT5 .paa file...

But somehow my paa file changes to ARGB1555 and in-game its a solid kind of blue color.. (so not see-through)

 

My texture is just a simple brown color RGBA(112,78,0,143).

Here is my rvmat: http://pastebin.com/WMUmUVbE

(i have done some research on the rvmat, but most of it is kinda out of my league because i dont know alot about color management and stuff like that, so it may look like a mess...)

 

Does anyone know why this happens?

 

 

~ JohnDoe

[john_doe 12]

Btw i'm not able to edit arma's paa used by the Arma 3 samples..

 

[Jackal326 1158]

Use the correct texture naming convention and give it a _ca.tga extension before you attempt to convert it to a _ca.paa

e.g. mytexture_ca.tga ---> mytexture_ca.paa

[john_doe 12]

Use the correct texture naming convention and give it a _ca.tga extension before you attempt to convert it to a _ca.paa

e.g. mytexture_ca.tga ---> mytexture_ca.paa

Thats what i have right now...

 

Here are my paa and tga: https://we.tl/BFGVCWhxG8

[PuFu 4591]

Alpha cannot be 143..colors don't work in RGB color format

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Procedural_Textures

[Artenis 7]

First resize your texture to get a *2 format (256*256, 512*512, 1024*1024 and so on).

Then you need to have an alpha channel in your .tga, which is a greyscale layer where all parts of your texture that are colored in black will be 100% transparent and those in white will be 100% visible. All the values between full black and full white (aka grey values) will define the visibility strengh of these parts.

 

You can also export your texture in the .png format without compression and with transparency, and then TexView2 will detect the alpha channel.

[john_doe 12]

Alpha cannot be 143..colors don't work in RGB color format

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Procedural_Textures

So how can i make my glass window see-through?

[john_doe 12]

First resize your texture to get a *2 format (256*256, 512*512, 1024*1024 and so on).

Then you need to have an alpha channel in your .tga, which is a greyscale layer where all parts of your texture that are colored in black will be 100% transparent and those in white will be 100% visible. All the values between full black and full white (aka grey values) will define the visibility strengh of these parts.

Ah thanks! I think i know how to fix it now :)

 

You can also export your texture in the .png format without compression and with transparency, and then TexView2 will detect the alpha channel.

This didn't work.. But i think that is because my image size wasn't *2..

 

[john_doe 12]

Thanks guys i fixed it!

 

[PuFu 4591]

you can have procedural colored transparent windows BUT there needs to be a CA texture in the p3d to activate transparency.