Self illuminated with transparency ?

Can´t seem to find anything about this particular combination.

Want to use it for ingame GUI decal type of graphics.

The self-illum. does not have to be controlled by its own map - a tint controlling the intensity would be enough.

 

http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=AlphaSelfIllum

I'd actually request that one of these shaders be included in the builtin shaders in a future version - it seems like a huge gap in a nearly complete basic lineup. For things like transparent effects there's often no better shader.

 

I might be missing something here, but I just use the built-in "Transparent/VertexLit" and turn the emmisive color up to 50%. You can control total transparency this way, as well, via the main color. It honors the alpha channel, has a variable self-illumination, and even does a "blown out" color if you put emmisive up above 50%.

 

Thx for the tips - the transp./vertex lit had slipped under my radar

Only negative side is the mentioned "blow out" of color in the diffuse map. It seems that one has to compromise between losing tonality in ones diffuse texture or getting a shader that is truly self-illum. without it being affected by scene lights.

Am I missing something here? If I could get 100 % self-illum. without blow out of colors (like seeing the texture in say photoshop) and with transparency - on objects in any light/ambient conditions - that would do the trick nicely.

 

I was under the impression that it was "accurate" at 50%. Haven't looked into it much though.

 

Turned main color and spec down to black and set emmisive to 50% - which did the trick. Newbee problems I guess - but thx non the less.

 

No problem. I'm not sure if this capability was added in a 2.0 version of this shader or what, but I don't remember it from early on. It's easy to overlook. That shader is very versatile. It'd be nice for it to be explored a bit in a tutorial somewhere or something.