DDS transparency not working

[KazFoxsen]

I've created a poster texture and want to give it torn edges like the vanilla ones, but no matter what I do, I can't save a DDS with any kind of working transparency. It doesn't matter what options I save with in Gimp 2 (DXT3, 5, or whatever) because in Geck, the poster texture appears whole, no matter how much I erased.

 

I loaded and resaved a vanilla torn Legion flag as a test, and all its tears were gone, as if a mask layer was removed. Also tried Paint Shop Pro 8.10 with nvidia plugin, but that won't even open dds files with any transparency, never mind save them.

 

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[stevie70]

I've created a poster texture and want to give it torn edges like the vanilla ones, but no matter what I do, I can't save a DDS with any kind of working transparency. It doesn't matter what options I save with in Gimp 2 (DXT3, 5, or whatever) because in Geck, the poster texture appears whole, no matter how much I erased.

well i'm not exactly good at nifskope, but maybe i can help a bit: from what i've seen, the transparency map textures only tell the nif _where_ to be transparent, not _if_ or how much. for this, there's a transparency flag, you'll find that in nifskope under... puh, what do i know, material properties if i remember right, right where the flag for the fuzzyness is. nah, what was the actual word for this... glossyness... hehe.. :-)

then, i think it kind of works like, you set that to all transparent, and then where the transparency map tells it to be it is and where not it's opaque (at least i figure it is like that, actually never transparentized non-transparent stuff myself, just played around with already transparent ones)

 

and another thing is, there's _lots_ of different "_x"-texture-types (like _n) i don't fully understand myself, _n is the normal map ok, _g appears to be glossyness, what _m is i understand partly at best, and no idea for _p and whatever else i found, so can't really tell you which of those is needed for transparency, but maybe someone else can clue us both in about that

 

Also tried Paint Shop Pro 8.10 with nvidia plugin, but that won't even open dds files with any transparency, never mind save them.

with photoshop (cs4 in my case), they do - is that the same plugin...?

can't figure out the setttings in the normal map export dialogue though, always have to fiddle around manually with given normal maps to get a result, sucks... :-P

[KazFoxsen]

Wow, it worked. I just added a NiAlphaProperty to the nif and now it works!