Tako_Kichi
August 16th, 2012, 14:54
I just hit a problem in GMAX and I can't seem to find a way around it and it's driving me mad!
I started a new part that I intend to merge into my main model file later. I made a plane the size required and applied a material to it and then added the texture of the part I want to build.....no problem.
I then created a simple cube as a starting point to build the part from.
Next I went to make the part transparent so that I could see the guide plane behind it and WHAMO!!!!!!!!!!
No transparency, none, zero, zilch! :isadizzy:
No matter what I do the part refuses to turn transparent so that I can work with it. I have read the help file (no help actually) and searched all the usual modelling forums for tips but found nothing. The part is changing to the assigned colour for a transparent object it is just staying at 100% oppacity instead of being see-through.
Anyone seen this behaviour before and better yet got a solution to the problem 'cus it's making me tear my hair out after messing with it for several hours! :icon_eek:
p.s. it used to work fine but now it doesn't, I'm not sure when it stopped working as I haven't needed a transparent part for a while now (not since the early days when I was rouging out the exterior shape).
p.p.s. I just tried applying a standard material to the part and then adjusting the opacity (something I have done in the past) and that won't work either. I seem to have lost all ability to make an object transparent.
:angryfir::a1451::angryfir:
I started a new part that I intend to merge into my main model file later. I made a plane the size required and applied a material to it and then added the texture of the part I want to build.....no problem.
I then created a simple cube as a starting point to build the part from.
Next I went to make the part transparent so that I could see the guide plane behind it and WHAMO!!!!!!!!!!
No transparency, none, zero, zilch! :isadizzy:
No matter what I do the part refuses to turn transparent so that I can work with it. I have read the help file (no help actually) and searched all the usual modelling forums for tips but found nothing. The part is changing to the assigned colour for a transparent object it is just staying at 100% oppacity instead of being see-through.
Anyone seen this behaviour before and better yet got a solution to the problem 'cus it's making me tear my hair out after messing with it for several hours! :icon_eek:
p.s. it used to work fine but now it doesn't, I'm not sure when it stopped working as I haven't needed a transparent part for a while now (not since the early days when I was rouging out the exterior shape).
p.p.s. I just tried applying a standard material to the part and then adjusting the opacity (something I have done in the past) and that won't work either. I seem to have lost all ability to make an object transparent.
:angryfir::a1451::angryfir: