Models with .TGA textures

[EternityDevest]

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So I have recently started obtaining models from WoW and when I export them into Flyff the .tga textures have a black outline which I do now know how to remove if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ShadowDragon]

are you changing the file type at all? cause I'm pretty sure flyff uses .dds for most textures. also, I think the textures might be missing the alpha channel. that determines what parts of the image show up, or how well they show up.

 

[EternityDevest]

The file for the model is .o3d ... and .dds textures completly ruin WoW models they show up incorrectly on the model.

 

[ShadowDragon]

yes, you're right. the MODEL uses .o3d. but the TEXTURES are MOSTLY .dds. Why must I repeat myself?

i didn't know that about the dds textures on wow models, and since i'm not a modeler, then i don't know how to fix that. does the .tga format allow alpha channels?

 

[EternityDevest]

yes targa dose allow alpha channels .

 

[Xakzi]

yup, had that problem alots of times, the tga is actually already alpha'd but does not seem to work in beast... some of them works ingame, but not in beast... really annoying.. doesnt take long to fix it tho ^^

 

[EternityDevest]

hmm ... How do you fix it then if I may ask ;0 ?

 

[ShadowDragon]

He's saying that it can work correctly in-game, just not in beast. Have you tried simply saving beast with the new models, putting the changes in server and client, and then test it in-game? I don't know if it will work, but it might.

 

[EternityDevest]

I currently dont have a test server set up

 

[ShadowDragon]

well, that's the only way I know of to test it. If you, or someone you know could test it and see whether or not it works, then you could try fixing it if it doesn't.

 

[xHeinrich]

You have to make an opacity and diffuse map using the same texture for each material you use to make it see-through around the alpha junk.

 

[wataru]

PM me i have source of itak server files...

 

[EternityDevest]

@shadowdragon if you want to ill give you the models for you to test them out if you have a test server if not i shall just set up a test server

@heinrich thanka for the info ill try that later

@wataru and why do I care that you have itak source ? That isnt really relative to thia help topic


#Update @Heinrich I don't know where to begin with what you told me to do >_< is it possible for you to be more specific please ?

 

[xHeinrich]

I will make a video tutorial for it in about 7 hours or so.

 

[ShadowDragon]

I could test the files, but it's really better for you to make a test server. That's what I do with all the things I'm preparing to put on my real server.

 

[EternityDevest]

I will make a video tutorial for it in about 7 hours or so.

thank you ^_^ that would be greatly appreciated



and @ShadowDragon im currently setting it up

 

[Xakzi]

ugh.. open the .tga in photoshop, if you dont know how to use the alpha ****, erase the black background manually (Make the background transparent).. save the picture as .png~

Convert it to .dds, or keep it as .png.. Make the o3d read the texture file.. and there you go.. It is not harder then that.

 

[xHeinrich]

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^check that out w/e the tutorial should be up within the next 3-4 hours

 

[SirTwistedStorm]

could I convert flyff .dds textures to tga if I wanted and still have it run correctly

 

[Xakzi]

could I convert flyff .dds textures to tga if I wanted and still have it run correctly

yeah same, but I guess wow uses another kind of tga structures.. well, does not matter what the extension of the texture is really.. flyff can read any file (jpeg, tga, dds, png, bmp are the only ones I've tried so far)

I would say that the easiest to use is png with transparent background, if you can not add alpha **** on it xD