why does my object disapear with textures?

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#1

how come when i add a texture with a black background to a plane, and then turn on the “add” it disappears when i start to play the game?

its like this:
i have a chain length fence texture with a black background. i apply it to a plane and press the add button. in the texture view (before i start the game engine) it looks fine. i have a fence that i can see through. but when i press p THE FENCE IS GONE!?

i tried to use alpha channels too (i then use the alpha button instead of add of couse) but the same thing happens.
why is this happening? how can i fix it?
thanks

#2

you cant add the color black… make it dark grey

#3

Yah, add makes black completely transparent.

#4

oh wait! thats not my problem…

okay, this is gonna sound really weird but,… i have four objects in my scene, a player, a camera, a light, and a room. i made the fence part of my room, and it worked fine.

heres whats wrong:
when ever i try and add a new object, it doesnt show up in the game engine. for example, i added a cube, just a normal everyday cube. when i hit “p” it disapeared, i cant even colide with it, it just vanished.

whats going on?

#5

very scary…

#6

i think i figured it out. it was my object that my camera was parented to. it distorted the camera in a weird way and it made everything disapear somehow. when i deleted the object, nothing was distorted and i could see all the added objects. im gonna make a new object for the camera to follow and see if that fixes it

#7

select your camera, press M, and hold shift and click on the same layer as your added object… so it is on 1 and where ever your cube is too…

or have a sperarate camera for your bot, and after you add the bot have the camera switch to the one parented to the bot.