LE3 : Trees and alpha foliage

[YouGroove]

How to do that ?

A solide model and double sided planes all that with some alpha channel on the texture ?

I bet Normal map on alpha foliage won't be possible ?

[Admin]

Set the blend mode to alpha in the material editor.

[Andy Gilbert]

Can this be done on CSG geom? I cant seem to get it to... What should be transparent is a "grey color", the grey color that is used for the background of the material editor.

 

This only happens in the editor, when run it seems to work as it should?

 

Andy

[YouGroove]

For CSG, you will need some shader i think ?

And why for CSG, trees are lot more optimized beeing models and not BSP.

[Admin]

Can this be done on CSG geom? I cant seem to get it to... What should be transparent is a "grey color", the grey color that is used for the background of the material editor.

 

This only happens in the editor, when run it seems to work as it should?

 

Andy

I think the brushes aren't set up for z-sort rendering, so they don't get blended properly. When they are loaded in the engine, they are collapsed and converted into model geometry, which does have the z-sorting built in. This should be fixed in the near future, but it's relatively minor.

[Andy Gilbert]

Ok that's fine.

 

Yougroove, trees aren't the only things that will need transparent mat's.

 

Andy.

[shadmar]

You could grab the tree sway shader in the asset store, it does alpha tests for foilage.

[YouGroove]

LE 2 and LE 3 shaders are not compatible i think.

[shadmar]

They are not, but I was referring to this : http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/files/file/404-le3-treesway-shader/

[YouGroove]

Awesome thanks.