How do you make particles not-transparent and black appear?

[Kuri]

Hello i am new to this and have no idea what i'm doing.
So..  i made particles with  like "scene_blend alpha_blend" or whatever it was, i can't see them.
Swapping to "scene_blend add"  makes them appear but semi transparent with washed out colours and the black markings are missing.
Spent some time on OGRE website but i can't figure it out.

What should i be doing?

Edit: example Example video link

[Bloo.]

Did you make the particles on a transparent background or a black background?

[VortexAlive]

Took a quick look at fh's particles and something I noticed is that most of the particle textures use a black background instead of transparency, except for smoke which is used by the fire particle and has this:

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material SmokeMaterial
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         lighting off                  <--- Black background particles also use this.
         scene_blend alpha_blend       <--- Black background particles also use this.
         depth_write off               <--- Black background particles also use this.
   diffuse vertexcolour <--- This is different.

         texture_unit
         {
            texture smoke.png
            tex_address_mode clamp <--- This is different
         }
      }
   }
}


I don't know if this will help but it's something.
I haven't tried making particles myself yet so this is out of my league. x.x

[Kuri]

Did you make the particles on a transparent background or a black background?

Transparent.

[Kuri]

Took a quick look at fh's particles and something I noticed is that most of the particle textures use a black background instead of transparency, except for smoke which is used by the fire particle and has this:

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material SmokeMaterial
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         lighting off                  <--- Black background particles also use this.
         scene_blend alpha_blend       <--- Black background particles also use this.
         depth_write off               <--- Black background particles also use this.
   diffuse vertexcolour <--- This is different.

         texture_unit
         {
            texture smoke.png
            tex_address_mode clamp <--- This is different
         }
      }
   }
}


I don't know if this will help but it's something.
I haven't tried making particles myself yet so this is out of my league. x.x

This could help!  Cheers.

[Enoki]

Did you make the particles on a transparent background or a black background?

Transparent.

Ah, then that's y'er problem I believe. I think Bloo was going down the right track. Try giving y'er particle a pure black background and use the default particle coding to test it. Let us know how it works.

[Kuri]

After testing this several times in various combinations (so many times i have forgotten, but may have missed a combination) they are either invisible as an alpha blend or ghostly as a scene blend.