"Spectral" Charger

[ohmaigawd]

hey I'm trying to reskin Paladin Charger to make it look like Spectral tiger (with transparent body and solid armor) . But I have a weird problem - there is no effect if i modify transparency in CreatureDisplayInfo.dbc... So I tried making the .blp file for charger transparent in photoshop. This is what happened:
Any clue how to fix it? I get this effect only if i change Opacity to less than 95%. It works normal at 95% but transparency is hardly noticeable (but it is transparent).
I get same effect also if I copy part of original Spectral Tiger texture on Chrager texture and leave Opacity on 100%
Please help me +Rep ofc^

EDIT: This is max Opacity I can achieve:
(you can see a npc in paladin armor through mount)

EDIT2:
This is the skin i used in first screenshot:


But I have an idea! Bloomfalls released epic staff Outerend a while ago... It has a transparent part! Maybe if I somehow get the .m2 in 3ds max and make the 3d model transparent the transparency will work... Do you think that could work?

[Reflection]

Not sure how to fix it, but that'll look cool if you get it to function properly

[Tigurius]

Change the transparency of the model with PyModelEditor.

[ohmaigawd]

Change the transparency of the model with PyModelEditor.

I'll try, I just need to figure out how to install it ^^ It took me one hour just to figure out how to install python lol... +Rep as promised

[liaa]

If you change the model transparency w/ Python the armour, which is part of the model, will have decreased transparency too.
However that horse looks badass invisible hahaha.
How did you change the glowing aura around it?

[ohmaigawd]

If you change the model transparency w/ Python the armour, which is part of the model, will have decreased transparency too.
However that horse looks badass invisible hahaha.
How did you change the glowing aura around it?

I didn't change it... Yet However, I will change it from gold to blue if I ever find out how to make the body transparent

[Alexial]

I actually tried to do something like this once. I swapped some Hawkstriders with a variety of differently textured Spectral tigers, and I found that the transparency stayed, even though the textures themselves had no transparency other then the Alpha (to cut stuff out). I think I determined that the transparency had something to do with the .skin file of the spectral tiger.

It actually ended up looking quite wicked, but since I couldn't find a way to change the model size (it was far too small) without a DBC edit, it's just chilling in my 'projects' folder.

[ohmaigawd]

I actually tried to do something like this once. I swapped some Hawkstriders with a variety of differently textured Spectral tigers, and I found that the transparency stayed, even though the textures themselves had no transparency other then the Alpha (to cut stuff out). I think I determined that the transparency had something to do with the .skin file of the spectral tiger.

It actually ended up looking quite wicked, but since I couldn't find a way to change the model size (it was far too small) without a DBC edit, it's just chilling in my 'projects' folder.

Man you should add a DBC edit and release it It would be awesome to see
Anyway when I get back after two weeks I will try to focus entirely on this project and hopefuly finish it.

[Alexial]

Hey, just for shits n' giggles, try this image and tell me if it works, or how it looks. Right click on it and do 'save as' to save the transparency. It looks the same as yours in the post, but I upped the transparency of the horse a bit.

I'm not at home, so I can't test it for you

[ohmaigawd]

Hey, just for shits n' giggles, try this image and tell me if it works, or how it looks. Right click on it and do 'save as' to save the transparency. It looks the same as yours in the post, but I upped the transparency of the horse a bit.

I'm not at home, so I can't test it for you

thanks ill test it as soon as i get back...haha im not at home either xD

[Alexial]

You know, I just noticed something looking at this again. I'm not sure if it happened when you or me did the alpha edits, but it seems we may have accidentally made some of the decorations on the horses armor transparent. I just wanted to let you know in case you wanted to fix it :3

[ohmaigawd]

You know, I just noticed something looking at this again. I'm not sure if it happened when you or me did the alpha edits, but it seems we may have accidentally made some of the decorations on the horses armor transparent. I just wanted to let you know in case you wanted to fix it :3

I think the decorations were transparent on original model...
I tried your skin and its not transparent or invisible (I did "save as" to save transparency)
Spent few hours working on it today and still no success

[ohmaigawd]

LOL @ Blizzard for "Stealing" my idea xD
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