Shader modifying

[Shambler[sixpack]]

What I'm trying to do is figure out a way of changing the LinkGun texture into a transparent texture, I've tried adding a ConstantColor texture to it's Opacity setings and changing the alpha but that only results in the texture being completely white.

It's very important that I only use that texture (UT2004Weapons.Shaders.LinkGunShader) because I'm actually going to be modifying it from within code.

If someone can tell me how it can be done in the editor then I can easily transfer that to code

 

[conscripted]

You can make a 'Shader' shader, add the link gun texture as the diffuse channel and add a targa texture with a full black alpha channel to the opacity channel of the shader..

You probably already knew that, but if you need to use the default shader, then I would guess you are going to have to extend the link gun stuff to handle this. You cant modify the shipped code, you have to extend everything.

 

[Shambler[sixpack]]

Ok thanks for replying I'll get round to trying that

What I ended up doing was using the Link-Gun's fallback material instead with which the Opacity channel worked right with the ConstantColour.

One thing tho, can you dynamicly change the alpha of the texture by doing what you suggested?

 

[conscripted]

If you can find the right way to call it with script, probably... Although changing anything other than the set parameters might be a challenge..