Alpha Tile Issue

[Chaosy]

I wanted to use the alpha tile but I've failed big time so far.

I've used the texture from roughly 4-5 different sources, none is working for me.
I imported it to: "TerrainArt\Ashenvale\Ashen_Rock.blp"

It looks like this in the editor:

And like this in game:

The sky is set through triggers

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 0.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Environment - Set sky to Fogged Sky

 

[DaneTheBeast]

Have you tried to edit the tileset so that the alphatile isn't at the bottom layer?

 

[Chaosy]

I tried and changed to Dirt Rough which makes a tad difference:

However, it still displays black in game.

Until I change the camera angle:

 

[Pyrogasm]

You might need to change the skybox/fog start and end draw distance to be lower or higher (it appearing at an angle suggests to me that it needs to be higher). I think the options to do that are in Gameplay Constants.

 

[Chaosy]

I cannot find it.
There's Fog Reveal Radius - Attacking unit and Fog Reveal Radius Dying unit, nothing else under the fog category.
There are no skybox settings.


I disabled the terrain fog completely in the map options settings just now. Did not change anything.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Sky boxes are not intended to be viewed top down, hence they might show nothing at the bottom.

 

[Chaosy]

Makes sense.
That explains why it's used so rarely in playable maps.

No reasonable workaround? My only idea was to take the skybox texture and use it as a tile but I am not sure if that would work at all.

 

[Hermit]

As Dr Super Good said, only the sides of sky boxes are meant to be viewed; they don't even have the bottom face.

 

[Dr Super Good]

No reasonable workaround?

Custom skybox model which does have a sensible bottom face.