[JGZinv]

I'm going to be putting some rather large base city domes in game shortly and the question
of how do you set up textures/geometry for transparent base parts came up.

Are we basically looking at the same process as fighter cockpit glass or is there
a better way of doing it?

Needs some Zzz's I'll respond back in the morning if there's a question.

Thanks.

[Spoon]

You just need a texture that has an alpha texture. Make the alpha channel a shade of grey, save it as DXT5 and you are good to go.
So yeah, the fighter cockpit glass way is the best way

[Colonol Dekker]

Alpha?
What modes that in photoshop?
 
(I understand the dxt settings as I use nvidia tools)

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Alpha = transparency

Yeah, use the fighter glass.

[Spoon]

Alpha?
What modes that in photoshop?
 
(I understand the dxt settings as I use nvidia tools)

open glass.dds in photoshop and look at the channels tab (next to layers)

[Colonol Dekker]

Noted.
 
This will move things along nicely for me.