Creating a .DDS Glass Texture With Alpha.

[Mince]

Hi there, I'm making a Game in Leadwerks 2.3 and am having trouble making my Glass.DDS transparent

 

I am using Photoshop CS5 with the N-vidia DDS Plugin

I Edited the .PNG file adding an Alpha Channel. I then Made the Whole alpha channel black and then exported it as a DXT5 (Reccomended) and In the game it is not Transparent.

 

I Also generated Mip Maps in the plugin and Tried flattening the image also. Still it doesn't work.

[ChrisMAN]

Did you change the material/mat file to use alphablending?

[Mince]

Yes i Opened it in Notepad the .MAT File that is, and typed in Blend=1 and i also tried Blend=Alpha. Still no joy

[ParaToxic]

You should use the alphablend or alphatest shader for example mesh_diffuse_aplhablend.frag ...

[paramecij]

that alphatest shader just discards pxiels whose alpha is below 0.5, no transparency involved, just a cut-out, much like a color key.. but wouldn't all pure black alpha channel make your whole image totally transparent?

[Mince]

Done it, thanks