Transparent textures are...pink?

[KillerHappyFace]

Yeah, yeah, I know. Pink = missing texture. My actual problem is harder to explain.

 

I'm looking at adding the combat armor headlamp to the regular old Army Helmet. Mostly because the standard combat armor helmet looks stupid as hell and I finally got fed up with it. So I made a texture with transparency, made a new material that referenced it, combined the two helmets in outfit studio, and added the alpha property to the resulting nif (underneath the appropriate TriShape, of course).

 

When I got it in game, the headlamp parts were pink, as if it couldn't find the texture.

 

After double checking all the file paths, everything seems like it should work. Here's a picture of my material, nif header strings, alpha property settings, file path, and what it looks like ingame:

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/v4A3uME.jpg

 

 

I've done a little transparency work, but never with two textures in the same nif like this. Could that be a contributing factor?

[tomomi1922]

Pink means missing texture. Your path may have been wrong somewhere.

 

I reread your message. The texture path SEEMS right. But I am telling you, this is 100% missing texture. If you mess up the alpha setting, it will turn up with the same texture but some weird shades (like complete black). There is also an alpha map texture file that I think Material Editor is expected to have. I haven't touched transparency in FO4 yet. Wait, I have. I worked with MacCready's Duster (the outfit) and by accident, successfully shortened the leather coat. And it was 100% made by editing the existing DDS file and saved as DDS with Alpha support.

I suspect that there are several independent graphic teams working on the textures and models. The naming convention suggests this too. So while some outfit enables transparency by default (and you just need to work it in DDS, some other outfits, especially with multiple textures, may require more work, as transparency was not enabled by default.

Hope I help more than I confuse.

Edited January 31, 2016 by tomomi1922