Transparent objects

[Baptista69]

hi,i am new with udk/ut3 but i am using now the udk.i am making a project and i need to put objects that their materials are based in glass.I have made it in 3ds max and my textures are a diffuse one and an alpha.At the image you can see the settings that i did and then i exported it. My problem now is how to make the transparent material in udk so i can have the sign.

here is the 3dmax image http://yfrog.com/05sign2zoj

thanks for your time:D

[gokzor]

Just plug-in your black and white alpha map into the Opacity socket. You can only plug in one channel ie red.

Jody

[Baptista69]

ok,i made a texture sample and i put the alpha there,but the result is still the same.I have a black box witht he letters on it.There must be something that i do wrong
http://yfrog.com/04sign3nj

[gokzor]

Here look at this...

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/172/exmple.jpg

Or plug that alpha mat strieght into the opacity socketl. Notice how its using the red channel.

[Baptista69]

i did it as you told me but still nothing.When i applied the materials and built everything the sign still looks solid black and not like a glass one.first i used the textures that i have applied with max,then i tried to use vector3 and the alpha to see if it will work like that.
http://yfrog.com/0zsign4vj

(i start to think if its possible something wrong when i applied the mats in max,but as you can see in the first image that i posted it was fine there)



sorry for all that,but i try since yesterday,i am going to have my whole lvl ready and still havent managed to have signs:p

[Baptista69]

well,i manage to do it in this way:i set a texture sample on the diffuse socket with the color that i want my alpha to look like and i put my alpha texture into the opacity socket and after that, i changed my blend mode into blend_translucent(looks simple but not for people who started using the udk for a weekXD)

My result now is like my sentece is floating on the air.How can i make the box to be a little bit visible(like you can see the edges from the box)and not 100% invisible?I thought to play with the power slot but i dont know what to put at the base/exp slot.

here is an example what i am looking for:

http://www.miladisplays.com/photoglass/Adventisnew.jpg

[genetransfer]

still learning about materials myself but found this : hourences (big thanks by the way!) (http://www.hourences.com/book/tutorialsindex.htm) invaluable in understand makeing materials and should provide what you are looking for. but off the top of my head on the black parts of the alpha lighten them up a bit as black is invisible and white is opaque form my understanding and use the alpha channel(white node) but not sure if that matters.

[katana2665]

Ignoring the fact i used the wrong tiled shot cmd...is this what you want to do?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/katana2665/Highres_Screenshot_00001.png

[feanix]

My result now is like my sentece is floating on the air.How can i make the box to be a little bit visible(like you can see the edges from the box)and not 100% invisible?I thought to play with the power slot but i dont know what to put at the base/exp slot.

Screenshots goddammit!

[Baptista69]

Sorry people,i havent ignored you,i was trying to learn maya cause i found it interesting for some human models,but it was weird for me to get used to it since i am using max.Here is the "glass" sign that i have made,as you see the letters are floating in the air whereas i am trying to do something like the image that i have posted some time ago.I am not saying that i have searched any solution for it(regardless the site that genetransfer has posted),but i am going to do it now since i have time to carry on my project.
http://yfrog.com/3uglasspj

i hope that this point of view can help

[SpeedyCerviche]

Simple solution. Dont use a fully white Alpha Map.

[Baptista69]

My alpha map is this one

http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp329/JohnBaptista/sign.jpg

I only have 2 texture samples,one for the colour that the letters want to be and one which is my alpha.What i did was to make it from black into grey/close to white which it made the glass to look a little bit darker.I tried to make it as the image but i am happy as it is now,apparently UDK cant make 100% real glasses unless there is a way which can be complicated.Anyway,if you think that the are other ways to make glasses please post it here, it will help me.

Thanks for your help and the advices.

[Xendance]

You gotta apply some colour to the rest of the glass too, not just the text.

[Browncoat Jayson]

Black is fully transparent, and white is fully visible. Make the black area a dark grey instead.

[SpeedyCerviche]

Black is fully transparent, and white is fully visible. Make the black area a dark grey instead.

This my bad I keep getting them confused.