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Re: Sweet Home 3D 4.2
Thanks m@ for your willing to test the beta version, but the Java Web Start link won't work under Mac OS X 10.6.
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4.2 b 14 - java 1.7.0_45 - win8
1) Material colour: I cannot change transparency / alpha (stays at opaque, whether obj/mtl is transparent or not). 2) Recent files are not really the most recent files (related to previously reported file-sorting Java issue?)
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In this screenshot you can see a man standing behind a wall. The wall has a transparent GIF on both sides. In the preview window the wall is black. In the photo the wall is invisible.
Transparency works only when taking a photo in Q3 or Q4. It doesn´t work in the preview window, or with Q1 and Q2 when making a photo.
It has never been possible to set or change transparency within SH3D.
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Morning Hans, I hope you got your new machine Linux graphics under control. They can be a true pain, but screen-shot looks promising (?)
As to transparency - either we are talking about different things, or I have (as usual) been expressing myself clumsily. So I try again.
Transparency set in png/gif or mtl files works beautifully as usual (albeit with some strange effects discussed elsewhere - most related to my lousy hardware graphics).
What I did not get to work in 4.2 b14 was the _new_ alpha/transparency settings in the Material Colour Editor (inside SH3D):
I was assuming that the material colour editor now is meant to address even more ".mtl" properties. Which would be wonderful news. However, the value settings are stuck at Transparency 0 / Alpha 255 - regardless of the original value taken from the .mtl file (the colour in the screen-shot is set to around 50% in the .mtl file imported).
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The transparency that you can set in the color choice dialog box isn't used at the moment. Maybe I'll change that for final version 4.2, if it's not too complicated.
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There I go again, to quick. Of course the COLOUR is not set to 50% - the TRANSPARENCY is. But the value in sh3d shows 0 and cannot be changed (slide jumps back / value resets).
Or to be more accurate, the .mtl original look like this: newmtl glass illum 1 Ka 0.2 0.2 0.2 Kd 0.7058824 0.98039216 0.98039216 Ks 0.0 0.0 0.0 Ns 1.0 Ni 1.0 d 0.50196075
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Thanks. Crossing posts. I guessed that alpha was still "under construction" but just wanted to let you know. Good luck with alpha (would be very cool, but not really a priority, I guess).
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OKH, Emmanuel,
In my beta 14 there is NO transparency slider. There is still the ´old´ Shininess slider, which goes from Matt 0 to Shiny 128. Maybe the program behaves differently under Ubuntu?
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The transparency slider shown in okh´s screen captures are part of the standard color choice dialog in Java 7 under Windows and Mac OS X, but not under Ubuntu as far as I know. I'll try to disable it if it's possible to avoid some confusion.
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