Having trouble getting transparent textures to work

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Having trouble getting transparent textures to work - Notavi - 07-15-2018

I'm trying to set up a basic window texture with transparency, but it doesn't appear to be working at the moment.

I originally went with a 32bit .TGA with an alpha channel, but this didn't appear to work correctly. I then tried using separate .jpg images. Neither has worked.

I've currently got three image files:

glass-lineframe.jpg
glass-lineframe_alpha.jpg
glass-lineframe_gloss.jpg

I've also tried a simple shader script (basically taking the hexglass shader and substituting my image name). Still nothing.

Code:
textures/map-aeris/glass-lineframe

{

        q3map_bouncescale 3

        qer_editorimage textures/map_aeris/glass-lineframe.jpg

        dpreflectcube cubemaps/default/sky

        dpnoshadow

        surfaceparm trans

        surfaceparm alphashadow

        q3map_lightmapSampleSize 64

        {

                map textures/map_aeris/glass-lineframe.jpg

                blendfunc blend

                rgbgen lightingDiffuse

        }

        {

                map $lightmap

                blendfunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO

                rgbGen identity

        }

}

The two main things I'm trying to accomplish are:

Have the texture render with transparency.
Have vis/light allow light through the texture when they calculate lightmaps

RE: Having trouble getting transparent textures to work - Smilecythe - 07-15-2018

Try it without the gloss texture

RE: Having trouble getting transparent textures to work - Notavi - 07-16-2018

Ok - tried that. Doesn't appear to have changed anything :/

RE: Having trouble getting transparent textures to work - Notavi - 07-16-2018

Hmm, is there any way to see what shaders are being applied, I've been combing the output from the map build and noticed the following line:

Code:
Map has shader script /home/notavi/.xonotic/data/maps/../scripts/q3map2_aeris.shader

But that's not the shader script I created and I can't see it inside that path....
It does then proceed to parse the correct script but I've got a sneaking suspiction NetRadiant is being "helpful" and generating a shader script for me which is overriding the one I'm deliberately preparing.
Not sure how to confirm or disprove this theory at the moment though...

RE: Having trouble getting transparent textures to work - _para - 07-16-2018

There's a 'shaderlist.txt' next to all shaders you need to make one in the scripts folder like this if you haven't:

[Image: 68s8Q58.png]

RE: Having trouble getting transparent textures to work - Notavi - 07-17-2018

It actually turned out to be something a lot dumber than that.
In my shader, the path that was typed was 'map-aeris', not 'map_aeris'.
Fixed that and now it's working properly.