Hammer not rendering Transparent Entities properly

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:13 pm

This is more an annoyance than a problem, but Hammer has spontaneously stopped rendering transparent entities in the 3D window properly.

A picture says a thousand words, so here you go:

For reference, if you look at the screenshot on wikipedia, you'll notice that the trees you can see leaves on. In my screenshot, the leaves (which are transparent textures) show up as big black squares where the transparent material would be.

Also, you can see the info_node and scripted_sequence are also not semi-transparent like they were a week ago.

Any ideas? I'm probably missing something blindingly obvious, and it hasn't been a huge issue, just (another) minor annoyance.

Steam · Post by **Shana** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:33 pm

Try View -> Draw Materials Opaque

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:54 pm

W0rf0x wrote:Try View -> Draw Materials Opaque

That seems to only change the textures on brushes, not the models. (The brush textures are and were normal. IE trigger textures you can see through)

Though you can't see through the scripted sequence texture on a brush for example, but i think that's normal.

Steam · Post by **Shana** » Sat May 03, 2008 9:18 pm

Have you tried? Heres a example of what it looks like on my system when changing that setting:

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Sun May 04, 2008 9:18 am

Interesting...

Yes, I have tried toggling it back and forth. Made no difference to the entities, but did make a difference to the brushes. Perhaps when I re-start hammer it'll work...

Either that or I'll try refreshing sdk content.