How to make a texture transparent/invisible

[flecked]

I'm pretty new to editing textures. How do I make a texture transparent/invisible?

 

EDIT: I figured it out, I had to edit the material file to allow transparency, I think, but it works.

Edited December 15, 2018 by flecked

[langnao]

Editing the alpha of the material file will give transparency but if u look closer, the effect is created by many small pixel of the color u chose ("dot matrix" effect). To make the effect less obvious, u can increase the polygon count of your mesh. There is another method that is using BGEM file instead of BGSM. Doing so u will not have the "dot matrix" effect but this is more for "glass type" transparency. If what u working on is not "glass type", the effect will not be nice/good if u using the BGEM method.

As for making a certain part of texture invisible, add a "NiAlphaProperty" to your mesh (nif) and using transparency at your diffuse texture map. There is another method of doing this by using "Vertex Color".