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Feb 17, 2002, 11:24pm

There should be a transparency action so I can set the degree of
transparency, where on the object it starts, and in what pattern, like a
radial, or cylidnrical, etc, etc. That way you could blend things like 2
floors together that way to get a smooth change from something like grass to
sand or dirt or water on a shoreline.

Feb 18, 2002, 12:50am

That's an excellent idea.

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Feb 18, 2002, 3:39am

It is already possible to fade out the opacity with
a greyscale mask. The only thing that needs to be fixed
is, how overlapping transparent objects are handled.

I think it might work, if you place only one object
that uses such a mask (fading out greyscale) slightly
above a solid textured one, that has the texture you
want to fade in. You just need to create a set of
greyscale BMP files with all the effects you need,
black for the invisible part, white for the fully
visible, fading through grey for everything that you
want semi-transparent.


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Feb 18, 2002, 3:57am

Well, then I suggest it become an action now :) hehe. With a few more
options including the place where the transparency begins, in which
direction it goes, and what sort of movement it could do. You could do some
neat things with that if you made a radial transparency and allowed it to
move with commands. :-) Just add some extra things to what you mentioned to
allow it to be a regular command with activate and bump and such.
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Feb 18, 2002, 4:54am

even that might already work, the "create texture"
command has an optional "mask" argument. Try to play
with it, maybe you find an intermediate solution as
long as there's no such command :)

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