Transparent cursor texture?

[Nightstar]

Hai it's me again xD
Feels like I'm asking too much, but I just started all that coding and designing and yeh.. x3
So this time I tried to make that big arrow, that shows up when you click somewhere for your char to run to, transparent.
I changed the file called cursorTex.jpg to a transparent .png file, and transliteratet the jpg to png in the media-materials-Cursor Folder.
As always, I failed and now that arrow is black.
Anyone knows how to make it transparent/invisible?

[Hakumi]

I tried looking this up to see if I could be mistaken on this but really little to nothing came up about this. I would assume that you would open the cursor ( edit with GIMP or whatever program you use ) and made sure that it was on a checkered background and erased the cursor before proceeding to save as a .PNG there might be a file that in the main folder that has the cursor saved and you might need to change it ( Could be wrong ). But if not you could always simply hide your cursor by pressing 'Tab' I think and then 'C' to open your chat window, 'V' to get your map up again, etc. etc.

[Ruby1234]

Assuming the new cursorTex is a transparent .png, then add the line alpha_rejection greater_equal 128 above the texture_unit line.

Full new code:

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material cursorMat
{
technique
{
pass
{
alpha_rejection greater_equal 128
texture_unit
{
env_map spherical
texture cursorTex.png
}
}
}
}

[Shazadah]

Just adding on to what Phloxen said, try this code if the one above doesn't work (I have a transparent cursor myself). It's just a couple of extra lines added, no big change:

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material cursorMat
{
technique
{
pass
{
cull_hardware none
cull_software none
alpha_rejection greater_equal 128
texture_unit
{
env_map spherical
texture cursorTex.png
}
}
}
}[/color][/size][/size]

[Ruby1234]

Already tested mine in-game. cx

The cull lines don't serve a purpose in transparency typically, they affect how faces are rendered.
Which, if you're trying to make all the faces disappear, aren't needed.

[Nightstar]

Thanks for those codes cx I tried them, but now it's white instead of black xD
And I gotta correct myself, I'm not trying to get the cursor transparent, but the big arrow that appears whenever you click somewhere with your cursor. I just thought it's the same because the texture files of that arrow are called cursorTex.
Is it even possible to make it transparent?

[Hakumi]

I don't think I have ever seen it done before so maybe there really isn't a way to make that arrow transparent in the game ( Could be wrong and maybe I didn't look harder or overlooked it ) but so far, nothing.

[Bloo.]

What art program are you using? And perhaps try saving the file as .jpg rather than .png, like the original file.

[Nightstar]

Art program is gimp and paint tool as, I tried both. And I think if I save them as .jpg, it won't stay transparent..

[PrettyReckless]

In order to save something you want to be transparent, it indeed does have to be .png