Transparent Areas on models

I have seen some posts relating to this but have not been able to sort it out.

heres the question..

I have a .b3d model created and exported from milkshape..

I want the black areas of the texture to appear transparent when loaded. The texture is loaded from a single bmp file associated and exported with the model, therefore it is mot actually loaded in the game separately from the loadmesh command.

I don't know if this will work or not, but you *could* reload the texture and reapply it - then you can try out the texture flags to see if they give you the transparency. I've never tried this so I don't know if it works or not.
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Don't apply the textures in your modeeler, and then load them in using the mask or alpha flag, as mearinn says. That should work :)

you can always use the Texturefilter, also with Textures which are loaded automaticly. try this:

CLearTexturefilters
texturefilter "",2 or 9

load whatever you need to load with alphaflag on

cleartexturefilters
texturefilter "",9 ; reset to default mode

Perfet JFK thanks

Or even Perfect....

Thanks Jfk

N/P

Now heres another related question...

Using blitz itself I am using texturefilter,4 to make black transparent. Works fine without any modification to the alpha mapping on the model.

Now, without changing the model in any way, is there a way to tell blitz to use another colour rather than black to make transparent.

Like I said a value of 4 defaults to black transparent. can this be changed ?

You need to write this using readpixel/write pixel. Read the colour from the texture pixels, then write them back, putting the alpha colour in as well.