Material Alpha Mask

[SpiderPig]

I forgot how to make the black parts of a texture be transparent.  How to set this in a material?  I tried "alphamask":true but not sure if that's even right.

[Dreikblack]

Maybe this? https://www.ultraengine.com/learn/Material_SetTransparent?lang=cpp

[SpiderPig]

Oh.  Didn't even think about that.    That'll teach me to post late at night. Thanks!

[Josh]

You probably want Material::SetAlphaMask.

Also, you probably want your transparent pixels to be greenish instead of black so the edges don't appear dark.

[SpiderPig]

Is that just 'alphamask' in the json material?

I'll try the green idead too.  Never considered that.

[Josh]

Looks like it's not currently loaded from files, but I will add it.

[Josh]

You know the asset editor can save materials, right?

[SpiderPig]

I haven't actually explored it much till now   It's actually really powerful, I like it how you can edit everything all in one window.