Problem with material

[MatiS]

Hello
I have rather weird problem with texture/material (I'm not sure). I checked everything and it should be correct. Here is screenshot,
And here from model editor


Texture has alpha channel and model works in MDLvis
I would be grateful for help

 

[Chaosium]

In the model editor, open the material manager and select this material (Ctrl+left clic in the main window if you're not sure).
Then, make sure the filter mode is set to additive, this is used specifically to make alpha channel invisible.

 

[MatiS]

The problem ain't with portrait glow but with material on upper part of his body:

Screenshot can be a little bit confusing. As you can see, texture on his head and body is black, but it should look like that:

In game it's worse (you can see it on screenshot in my first post)

 

[Chaosium]

Ah right I didn't see that! That's confusing but I might have an idea.

Would you mind posting it as an attachment so I can take a look?

 

[MatiS]

Here you go
View attachment NerubianVizierAlive.mdx
View attachment Vizier.blp

 

[Chaosium]

Yeah as I expected, the problem was UV Mapping.

It displays correctly (I guess^^) in the model editor, check out if it works for you.

 

[MatiS]

It works in model editor, but in game I still get this:

 

[Chaosium]

Well, I'm clueless. Tried to recalculate the extents, to rewrap it, I still have the same result as you do.

I replaced the custom texture with a standard crypt fiend's, and it displayed correctly ingame, so my guess would be that the texture has a flaw somewhere, maybe too much alpha.

Edit : went to check the texture, it seems to be fine, honestly I don't know what's wrong with this model :<

 

[MatiS]

I forgot to turn off rle compression in texture when I was saving it as tga. I fixed it and it's workin' now. Thanks for help.

 

[Chaosium]

Ah! I've always been wondering what RLE compression was actually doing, thanks to you I know I have to leave this option unchecked^^