0005730: Translucent triggers/visportal/nodraw materials

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0005730	DarkRadiant	Renderer	public	27.08.2021 01:11	28.08.2021 22:05

Reporter	BrendonChung	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	acknowledged	Resolution	open
Product Version	2.13.0

Summary	0005730: Translucent triggers/visportal/nodraw materials
Description	I think a helpful feature would be to allow certain materials to be rendered translucent in the editor. The use case for this would primarily be for utility materials such as triggers, visportals, and nodraw brushes. The Filters are hugely useful for making utility materials disappear completely, but there are times where it is desirable to see the utility material in relation to the world geometry -- how it fits, what it covers, how tightly it hugs a given space. I've attached a sample image of what this could possibly look like.
Additional Information	My quick thought on its interface would be to allow a translucency value in the .MTR file. Example: "qer_translucency 0.5"
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Attached Files	trigger.png (285,395 bytes)

IZaRTaX 28.08.2021 08:58 reporter ~0014317	I already did something similar years ago, you can test and download it here http://www.mediafire.com/file/iczdr93w493yf3x/Translucent_textures_by_IZaRTaX_2.rar/file I added alpha channel with the translucent function and blend gl_src_alpha, gl_one_minus_src_alpha To install put the __translucent.pk4 in your /DarkMod folder. Before your final compile remove __translucent.pk4 tr.png (1,736,833 bytes)

Dragofer 28.08.2021 22:04 developer ~0014320 Last edited: 28.08.2021 22:05	Yeah, you can already work around this by modifying the materials to have alpha and DR will try to mimick it. But a dedicated keyword for alpha in DR would be easy to use and offer more control. Could be that TDM's material code will need to be updated to accommodate this, to avoid "unknown general keyword" console warnings.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
27.08.2021 01:11	BrendonChung	New Issue
27.08.2021 01:11	BrendonChung	File Added: trigger.png
27.08.2021 18:49	greebo	Status	new => acknowledged
28.08.2021 08:58	IZaRTaX	Note Added: 0014317
28.08.2021 08:58	IZaRTaX	File Added: tr.png
28.08.2021 22:04	Dragofer	Note Added: 0014320
28.08.2021 22:05	Dragofer	Note Edited: 0014320