Canvas.Style to render texture???

[Antonio]

I wanna draw a translucend texture, but i seems that Canvas class don't have more the Style, anyone know how to draw a texture traslucent, like style=3 in Unreal Engine 1 or 2

In UE 1 and 2

Canvas.Style=STY_Translucent; or Canvas.Style=3;

In UE3?

[Bonehed316]

You need to use DrawMaterialTile instead, and set the Materials BlendMode to be translucent.

Keep in mind, when rendering on the canvas, only the Emissive and Opacity values are valid.

[bushbomb]

I had used Canvas.Style for drawing text, how should I update that for UT3?

I wouldn't use DrawMaterialTile for text, or would I?

[Pfhoenix]

No, text rendering hasn't changed at all (to include font support, for better or worse).

Also, for rendering textures, you do not, in fact, need a material :

1) Create a texture with an alpha channel (I use TARGA .tga format)
2) Import your texture into a texture package
3) In your code, call Canvas.DrawTile()

The thing to play with is Canvas.DrawColor.A. Setting the alpha channel will affect how transparent your texture shows up as.

[bushbomb]

No, text rendering hasn't changed at all (to include font support, for better or worse).

But Canvas.Style is not there anymore. I was asking how I do it now. All I used the canvas for in 1 mod was to write text, and I would change the Style of the Canvas depending on some conditions.

[Pfhoenix]

You don't need it. The "style" is determined by the texture itself. You can't have a color-keyed texture any more. You need to create textures with alpha channels for masking.

You only have two options :
1) Do as I wrote
2) Do as Bonehed wrote

My method negates the need to have materials that you won't otherwise use. Bonehed's method allows you to do fancy processing on a texture before rendering it.

[Antonio]

i need Canvas.DrawColor.A = 0 and Canvas.DrawTile()?

[pingfreak]

use this..

H.Canvas.DrawColor.R = 255;
H.Canvas.DrawColor.G = 255;
H.Canvas.DrawColor.B = 255;
H.Canvas.DrawColor.A = 0;

you want transparent green? use this..

H.Canvas.DrawColor.R = 0;
H.Canvas.DrawColor.G = 255;
H.Canvas.DrawColor.B = 0;
H.Canvas.DrawColor.A = 130;