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<h1>DDS Texture Export</h1> <div class="level1"> </div> <h2>Overview</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Here it will be explained how to set up an entity with a translucent material. There is a lot of differetn techniques and programs that can be used to make the images used in this tutorial, so the focus will be mainly on using the engine's tools. </p> </div> <h2>Steps</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> <b>1) Setting up the model.</b><br/> First of all the model needs to be be set up and have a diffuse texture set to it (more info <a href="/doku.php?id=hpl3:engine:model_export#modelling" class="wikilink1" title="hpl3:engine:model_export">here</a>). The file we have are:<br/> <code>transbox.dae</code><br/> <code>transbox.dds</code><br/> Now we open transbox.dae up in the modelviewer and will see:<br/> <a href="/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=hpl3:tutorials:material_trans01.jpg" class="media" title="hpl3:tutorials:material_trans01.jpg"><img src="/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=300&tok=3e45ae&media=hpl3:tutorials:material_trans01.jpg" class="media" alt="" width="300" /></a><br/> The files we have are now: <code>transbox.dae</code><br/> <code>transbox.dds</code><br/> <code>transbox.mat</code><br/> <code>transbox.msh</code><br/> the ".mat"-file is generated by the modelviewer and is a solid material based upon the name of the diffuse texture (here "transbox"). Modelviewer can add further texture such as normalmaps, specular, etc if the files have the proper prefixes (for a list of those see <a href="/doku.php?id=hpl3:engine:materials#solid_diffuse" class="wikilink1" title="hpl3:engine:materials">here</a>).<br/> The "msh"-file is a binary version of the dae file that is much faster to load. No need to worry about that one in this tutorial. </p> <p> <b>2) Changing to translucent.</b><br/> Now open up MaterialEditor (leave modelviewer open) and open "transbox.mat". Here change the type to "translucent" and the blend mode to "mul" (you can use other blend modes, but mul is often the best when dealing with translucent surfaces). <a href="/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=hpl3:tutorials:material_trans02.jpg" class="media" title="hpl3:tutorials:material_trans02.jpg"><img src="/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=300&tok=0180d5&media=hpl3:tutorials:material_trans02.jpg" class="media" alt="" width="300" /></a><br/> Chose "Save" in the file menu.<br/> You can now simply task switch to the modelviewer (no need to close and open) and the changes will appear). <a href="/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=hpl3:tutorials:material_trans03.jpg" class="media" title="hpl3:tutorials:material_trans03.jpg"><img src="/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=300&tok=5632bb&media=hpl3:tutorials:material_trans03.jpg" class="media" alt="" width="300" /></a> </p> <p> <b>3) Adding environment map.</b><br/> </p> </div>