Dirt and Blood textures

[Bwian]

Is there any way to control these appearing? I want to make it so that a particular unit is covered in a particular overlay ... but ONLY one unit type. I am trying to make a ghostly unit, and wondered if it were possible to control the overlay they get. Laying on a thicker than normal overlay at the outset, would this give a ghostly outline to a unit if it's whole texture were blanked out as an alpha texture. Just a thought!

Strange how so many people have had problems with invisible units, and yet I am having trouble actually TRYING to make see through units! Funny old world

[Lusted]

Couldn't you do that via the units alpha channel anyway? I believe wselma(spelt it wrong, can't remember exact name) did something similar for the army of the dead in his LOTR mod.

[Bwian]

I thought so too..... but I don;t seem to be able to make alpha textures display properly. They are either solid.. or they are transparent.

I am saving them as the correct kind of DDS, and the things render OK ... just not in game!

[Lusted]

Hmm, maybe it has something to do with the new normal textures in M2TW?

[Bwian]

Been scouring the forums for clues, but no luck. Unless there is another texture setting for saving DDS, or a particular video setting has to be enabled in game to see them... but I found nothing so far.

It MUST be possible to do it somehow, since the overlay textures for dirt and blood work that way. Either that, or we can't do it BECAUSE the dirt and blood textures work that way!