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Flashing textures whilst In-Game

by Richard: · in General Discussion · 03/14/2006 (11:23 am) · 2 replies

Hi all,

We're experiencing a situation where we have a texture that seems to Flash while in Torque. On this example it's a plane-polygon with leaves and branches (with alpha enabled).. and when a player approaches the tree, the textures on the tree seem to Invert color-wise, giving a sense of Flashing depending on which way the player is oriented to the tree.

Anyone else experience this? Have any hints or suggestions? The easy thing would be to just punt the tree and make do with another, but the assets were already in place and we'd like to solve this.

~Ciao
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    Torque Owner Paul /*Wedge*/ DElia
    #1
    03/14/2006 (12:36 pm)
    Have you tried exporting the tree with the Sort:: option for whatever exporter/modeler it was made in? This will generally help most alpha fighting issues on objects. Refer to the docs for your exporter to see how to do this.

    Torque Owner Tim Heldna
    #2
    03/14/2006 (4:26 pm)
    I got this problem too. The SORT::tree helps but I found that it didnt totaly solve the problem. What I found that modeling more branches that weave through the leaves (alpha channels)... It dosent help with the poly count, but I just erased them with the next LOD. Found this out by accident and don't know if it worked or if it was just my method of modeling and I don't know why it helped with the sorting.

    give it a try!!