Placing an image on a stationary billboard.

#1 I can get the dts and texture to work right now but for some reason I can't get the transparency to work correctly. I have looked at all the posts and even tried to replace the png image file the dts points to with a png file I know has an alpha channel. Still will not show up. Does anyone have a clue what I might be doing wrong.:(

Thanks.
MJ....

#2 Have you tried looking at the fxFoliage code?

#3 Hmm. If you are refering to fxFoliageReplicator from Melv then yea I looked at it. I am still learning C++ and pritty much understand the concept of the fxFoliageReplicator but it's still a little fuzy. The knowledge will come with time. All I am trying to do seems pritty simple. Place a single sided flat vertical surface to a level and add a alpha image to it. I inserted the object into the level as TSSHAPE. I looked at the code for TSSHAPE in the prerender section:

int foobar(int a)
{
      if (mShapeInstance->hasSolid())
      {
         SceneRenderImage* image = new SceneRenderImage;
         image->obj = this;
         image->isTranslucent = false;
         image->textureSortKey = mShapeHash;
         state->insertRenderImage(image);
      }

      if (mShapeInstance->hasTranslucency())
      {
         SceneRenderImage* image = new SceneRenderImage;
         image->obj = this;
         image->isTranslucent = true;
         image->sortType = SceneRenderImage::Point;
         image->textureSortKey = mShapeHash;
         state->setImageRefPoint(this, image);

         state->insertRenderImage(image);
      }
}

It seems like the object I am trying to use is being read as a Solid and no Translucency. I set the translucency in milkshape for the material I am useing then exported using the TG Exporter. Maybe I am just having a brain freeze. I can get the image on the object but the areas I want invisible are still showing up.

ANY HELP AT ALL FROM ANYONE WOULD BE GREATFULLY APPRECIATED!

Thanks.
MJ....

#4 How are you creating your PNG file? If you do a normal "Save as" in photoshop then it's not going to work. There is a super png plugin that you can use (look around the forums or resources for a link), or just simply choose "save for web" instead of save or save as in Photoshop.

If it's not your PNG file that's breaking it, then you probably have not correctly made the object transparent in MilkShape

#5 How do YOU make an object transparent in MilkShape? I want to make sure I am doing it right. I think I am but I value your opinon.

Thanks Kevin.
MJ....