Can't get transparent textures to work

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Hi

I have an annoying problem with Blender. I essentially want to render some transparent polygons. Earlier I have done this by loading an image texture and mapping its transparency and colors to a plane. This works quite nicely

Now I want to preview the textures while modelling, so I have tried the UV editor. I can get the textures aligned and all, but the transparency just does not want to work. I have selected the ‘alpha’ blending mode and ZTransp for the material. The transparency only works on the preview window when the mesh is selected. When I unselect it, the transparency disappears (though the texture is still shown). Rendered pictures lack the transparency as well. I went through all the options I could find, but it just flat out refused to work.

Please help me fix this. I’m losing my hair as well as sanity quite fast.

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turn the alpha slider all the way down. also click on ‘use alpha’, or ‘calc alpha’ in texture buttons.

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Doesn’t work. It just makes the whole thing disappear. If I add the image as a texture in material menu it does not align itself to the coordinates set by the UV editor.

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would it help if i put up a .blend with some examples of alpha textures? or if you would post an example of what you are trying to do, i could take a look at it.

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I put an example of what I’m trying to do here. It has a background cube and two transparent textures. The left one has the image placed to a texture channel. It renders correctly (the cube shows through), but textured preview does not work. The right one is UV-mapped, and texture preview works if it is selected. When unselected or rendered the transparency does not work.

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Strange, I can’t find anything wrong with your settings. I guess the solution would be not to use tex face.

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But then I can’t use the UV editor or textured view.

It almost feels like there is one more alpha toggle switch hidden somewhere deep in the program, which I just can’t find.

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I’m still stuck with this. Has anyone actually gotten transparent textures to work?

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You can still use the UV editor you just don’t assign the matreials in it assign them in the material buttons.

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Simply apply the material from the one that works during rendertime to the one that works during realtime and then…

In the Material buttons, under the [Map Input] Tab change your selection from Orco to UV.

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That’s it. Now I got it to work. Thanks a lot! The only problem is that textured preview does not draw transparency correctly unless the object is selected. Seems like a bug in Blender.