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Old 1st January 2013, 08:40 AM   #1
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Default Second Life mesh transparency

I have made various simple shapes, exported them as Collada files and imported them into Second Life as mesh models. Okay so far. Everything works as expected but if I make a surface transparent, that transparency does not show in Second Life. It's fine in AC3D. Apologies if this is a Second Life issue rather than an AC3D one. Surfaces with different colours are fine, it's just transparency that's a problem.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Old 2nd January 2013, 03:15 PM   #2
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Default Re: Second Life mesh transparency

I am not sure what you are making but if you are making a mesh object that requires a transparency, a couple of things you could try:

1. if its a window or opening and since you are using mesh, you can cut an opening, then create a prim window in sl wit the proper transparency--then you just fit your window in opening.

2. make your transparency texture separate from your mesh texture---and apply them separately. Second Life has not perfected its mesh and I suspect it the same with the textures.

just a note, they are moving toward using server side textures as oppsed to client sided so that means that eventually your viewer will not govern the viewing of the textures so keep this in mind. What this means is eventually what you see in AC3D will be viewable (including transparencies) in SL using viewers exclusive to SL. Goood luck and i hope this helps.
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Old 2nd January 2013, 06:52 PM   #3
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Default Re: Second Life mesh transparency

That's helpful, thanks, I will give that a try.

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