Making Alpha Skin Channels.

[Profcorron]

How do you do this?

 

(an alpha channel is basically a map that stops certain parts of a skin coming through at different intesities. )

[Pahricida]

well basically it's just a 32 bit .tga file and a shader.

 

Create your texture... now switch to the channels tab and create a new Chanel called

 

"Alpha 1"

 

Now this works like this:

 

everything that is white in the alpha Shader will be opaque ingame.

Whereas black ares will be translucent.

 

 

So if this is your texture:

 

 

 

Your Alpha Shader should look like this:

 

 

And the shader should look something like this then:

 

textures/fiesling/baum_gruen
{
        surfaceparm trans 
        surfaceparm alphashadow
        cull none
        nopicmip

{
        map textures/fiesling/baum_gruen.tga
        blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ZERO
        alphaFunc GE128 
        depthWrite
        rgbGen identity
     }
{
        map $lightmap
        rgbGen identity
        blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO
        depthFunc equal
     }
}       

 

 

Ignore the weird pathnames ... everything was stolen from a Tutorial on

http://www.Level-Designer.de