Feral Heart

Quote from: Lucius on September 09, 2017, 12:56:14 am

It's possible, let me get my code in order and I'll show you how.

Alright, so first we have a transparent head.

Then, we overlay a mask to let us know where we want the scrolling texture.

And finally, we have the scrolling texture.

The code to make this work is this:

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material preset_12_headMatL
 {
    technique
    {
       pass
       {
 scene_blend alpha_blend
 alpha_rejection greater 128
 texture_unit
 {
 texture TRANSPARENT HEAD.png
 }
 }
 pass
 {
 scene_blend alpha_blend
 alpha_rejection greater 128
 texture_unit
 {
 texture HEAD MASK (BLACK AREAS WHERE YOU WANT SCROLLING).png
 }
 texture_unit
 {
 texture HEAD MASK (BLACK AREAS WHERE YOU WANT SCROLLING).png             
 colour_op alpha_blend
 }
 texture_unit
 {
 texture SCROLLING TEXTURE.jpg
 colour_op_ex blend_current_alpha src_texture src_current
 tex_address_mode wrap
 filtering trilinear
 scroll_anim 0.0 0.1
          }
       }
    }
 }
The result is this:

Just make the black mask over the tongue instead of the swirls that I did in the example, and obviously only erase the areas where you want transparency on the main head texture.

Have you made the head/tail/mane yet? And if you have, have you double checked that the names and file types match up? I just have to ask, since you haven't specified. ^^'

If you've already done that, I'll be turning back to your code. You're missing a few brackets going down at the end.
Your code:

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material preset_9_headMatL
{
receive_shadows on
technique
{
pass
{
ambient 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
diffuse 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
specular 0.050000 0.050000 0.050000 1.000000 12.500000
emissive 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
cull_hardware none
cull_software none
alpha_rejection greater_equal 128
scene_blend alpha_blend
texture_unit
{
texture preset_9head2.png
tex_address_mode wrap
filtering trilinear
}
}

VS how it should look:

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material preset_9_headMatL
{
receive_shadows on
technique
{
pass
{
ambient 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
diffuse 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
specular 0.050000 0.050000 0.050000 1.000000 12.500000
emissive 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
cull_hardware none
cull_software none
alpha_rejection greater_equal 128
scene_blend alpha_blend
texture_unit
{
texture preset_9head2.png
tex_address_mode wrap
filtering trilinear
}
}
}
}
And if you're still having trouble with that, I found a much simpler transparency code that you can use!

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material preset_#_bodyMatL
{
 technique
 {
  pass
  {
   alpha_rejection greater_equal 128
   texture_unit
   {
    texture preset_#body.png
   }
  }
 }
}
Hope this helps!

So what is it that is going to differentiate your wc rp from all the rest?

As you can see in the code that you have, there are two parts of the body.

One is called preset_4body2.jpg and the second one is called preset_4body.jpg

Just put preset_4body1.jog instead of just body.jpg.

Then, when creating a preset in whatever program you're using, make sure to when you're working on ONE side of the character, to save it as ONE side.

For example, you're working on the Left side of the body, you wanna save the file as preset_4body2.jpg

And when you're working with Right side of the body, save it as preset_4body1.jpg

Here is a YouTube tutorial that might help you out a bit more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fvWYzokEcw