that would make one creepy area marshal! off topic- is there a dds for the gauge background color?

Quote from JasonJ :

I already tried it, but failed. It doesn't do anything cept make the helmet parts shiny black - sorry. You can actually get the effect you want by renaming the helmet file :

../LFS/data/hmn/helmet.sre
rename it to
../LFS/data/hmn/helmet1.sre

then reload LFS

.sre has same struckture as .vob... Waiting for a helmet with a open eyes and spoiler from magnot?

Thank you

How to make transparent parts darker (tinted) ? I made xrt with glass roof, but it looks stupid, because windows are tinted, and roof isn't.

It is not possible.

Quote from Flame CZE :

It is not possible.

What about "translucency"?

In my opinion, the alpha channel is transparent or non-transparent, nothing between that.

Wrong. The roof can be translucent as I have tried before and will upload for you guys sometime .

Got a T-Bar for the xrt. BTW to who ever made the bandit skin. Thanks for making it and sorry if i shouldn't have edited it.

I am with FLAME CZE on that one. I've tried for several hours and I was only able to do either completely clear or not clear. No shading/tinting was possible.

I suggest use clear windows on the rest of the car instead of trying to make the roof the impossible tint. There's a nice clear windows mod these days. http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=49661

But what about UF1_ExperimentALPHA skin? It's not clearly transparent, when i change the colour ingame, car colour changes too. I've opened that skin with photoshop, and it's not all black, there is a huge gray spot in the center of the skin. I'll try to c/p that on XRT roof, when i'll come back home

The experiment was a secret test that went wrong. Ended up with a neon-light-tube-powered car - pic

It's not a grey spot, it's a grey block 128x128 saved in a special format.
But I cannot remember what file format I used to save it. I used some bizaar dds format.



Edit: the file format was dds >> Cx V8U8 Norm (16 bit, normal map) in Photoshop
BUT, no matter what patterns or alpha channels I make, the whole skin comes out fluro neon-tube white colour.

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Quote from JasonJ :

I am with FLAME CZE on that one. I've tried for several hours and I was only able to do either completely clear or not clear. No shading/tinting was possible.

I suggest use clear windows on the rest of the car instead of trying to make the roof the impossible tint. There's a nice clear windows mod these days. http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=49661

Weird! I can't remember how I did it but it does not really matter .

can you also make rusty holes, would be nice

how the hell did this work:-o

i just got it and personally i think its absolutely amazing!!!!!!

great work to whom involved!!!!!!!!

Could this be used the opposite way round, to make windows look like metal panels, to make a van kind of thing?
Like this...
http://www.autovia.com/extras/ ... ta/05_FiestaVan.sized.jpg

yea but on the inside it would be like normal and you could only really do the back windshield or all the rest, maybe parts of each, but honestly i don't think it would look right at all, at least not like the pic.sorry

im sure some 1 could give it ago tho just interested 2 see if it does work

Quote from Flame CZE :

It is not possible.

it is possible with photoshop allu have 2 do is put tracparency down where u want the glass 2 be a diferant shade IE...... Tinted sunroof etc....

Quote from cathal50cc :

it is possible with photoshop allu have 2 do is put tracparency down where u want the glass 2 be a diferant shade IE...... Tinted sunroof etc....

Yes, I know that Photoshop can do transparent things but the alpha blending is only transparent or non-transparent in my opinion.

I did a gradient transparency across the whole skin, there is a threashold level and it goes from black to transparent. I wasn't able to make it tinted.

I've tried different levels of transparency in some other dds files (not skins) and they worked just fine, so these should also work in the same way. If you look in the alpha layer, different shades of gray give different transparencies. White gives no transparency, and black gives full transparency. Try it yourself, it works for me...

As an example, check out the alpha layer of XFdialsALP24.dds, you can see the different shades of gray which give different levels of transparency to the gauge background.

3rd or 4th time I've said now, it doesn't work, yes they are DDS's , BUT the skins come out different, because they are handled differently in LFS I believe. A skin never needed to have multiple levels of transparency so it was never implemented IMO. Something like windshields requires tinting so LFS renders it with transparency levels. Some command is sent to DirectX or something. Same does not happen with skins.

Here, I'll show you why. I have tried a skin with transparency gradient. It just stops the transparency (clear) as soon as the black changes to any grey at all.

Before anyone else says it can be done, please post proof.

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This is how it turns out:

Skin preview (preview of the image editor so you can see the transparency)


In Game (So you can see where the threashold is)


Skin DDS
XRT_test01_ALPHA.zip

Quote from JasonJ :

3rd or 4th time I've said now, it doesn't work, yes they are DDS's , BUT the skins come out different, because they are handled differently in LFS I believe. A skin never needed to have multiple levels of transparency so it was never implemented IMO. Something like windshields requires tinting so LFS renders it with transparency levels. Some command is sent to DirectX or something. Same does not happen with skins.

Here, I'll show you why. I have tried a skin with transparency gradient. It just stops the transparency (clear) as soon as the black changes to any grey at all.

Before anyone else says it can be done, please post proof.

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This is how it turns out:

Skin preview (preview of the image editor so you can see the transparency)


In Game (So you can see where the threashold is)


Skin DDS
XRT_test01_ALPHA.zip

yes u are right i gave it a shot 2 and didnt work

HEY can u make the wheel rims see through lol it would be kick ass