Opacity - Animation

Hello,

I'm new to 3ds max and oFusion, so sorry, my question will probably be stupid ...

I'm trying to make a simple animation of a door. In max, the animation plays fine, but, when i'm export the scene to ogre, or when i use the ogre viewport, the animation doesn't plays, and i don't understand why ...

I made the window of the door transparent, using the "opacity". It works in max, but in ogre, the window is just white ...

My scene : http://insence.free.fr/scene.rar

Again, sorry for my stupids questions, and for my english

Select the door multi material (1 - Default in your scene) in the Material Editor and click on "Update Mat" in the oFusion toolbar or in the oFusion menu

The materials will be automatically updated to Ogre materials and you can fine tune the glass window material

There are several ways to do an object transparent, you can use the vertex color and alpha values of the part of the mesh you want to make transparent (disable lighting in the material to use the vertex color/alpha of the vertices)

Or you can use a 1D alpha texture (a single pixel texture will work) that you apply to all your trasparent part, and use alpha blend mode

You can use the fog settings of the material to make a semi transparent object

Or simply, in your scene, you can set the pass blend mode of the trasparent material to "modulate", disable depth write, and use the specular and diffuse color to make the opacity, like in this image, click to see it bigger



Additionally you can add an enviroment map to create a more glass like effect, click this image to see it bigger




Or you can use shaders to create advanced glass materials

About the animation of the door, the object in the scene is a "procedural" object that gets its animation updated in the internally "door creator"
You can convert it to a mesh edit object, and detach the door element to animate it manually

hi there i created glass in 3dmax using mental-ray
and after that i discovered that it is not compatiable with ogre
do you have any suggestion how to create glass on offusion
thanks

This thread has some information on transparent materials

http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2addons/viewtopic.php?t=571

Do you want the glass material made with shaders?

yes the way i created "using mental-ray" uses shading and ior

Interactive shaders are very different from off-line shaders (i.e. mental ray)

When we refer to shaders here (and in any interactive case) we mean "gpu" shaders, or if you prefer D3D9 or OpenGL shaders

In RenderMonkey there are good examples of several types of glass shaders

Read the "Using Render Monkey shaders" tutorial from the Artist Center to learn how to use render monkey shaders with oFusion

Hi, could you please update the screenshot, the actual oFusion has more options for blending. Creating the glass works, but using a envoirment-map for pseudo-reflections fails, I get a too strong effect of the envoirment.
I want to use glass for museum-showcases, so it is necessary that I'm able to see the objects inside.

Thanks & Bye

You can download the complete animated glass sample scene (with alpha environment mapping) in the "Example Scenes" section of the "Artist's Center"