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Author Topic: Using Textures with Alpha on a Generated Mesh
Ceraph
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Post Using Textures with Alpha on a Generated Mesh
on: February 13, 2014, 21:24
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Hello, I just started using MegaShapes and so far it's proving to be a great tool, but I am running into a strange issue when trying to use a generated mesh for my MegaShape. I created an unclosed spline, then had MegaShapes generate a box mesh from the spline. When I first dragged my material into the "Mat" field it looked fine, but when I clicked the "Cap" box I started seeing some really weird behavior with how the texture was being rendered (screenshot below). When I unchecked "Cap" the rendering issue still remained. I can attach this material to a simple cube in Unity and I do not run into this issue. I am using an alpha blended shader as I want it to be a path that lays over top of a ground texture. If I switch the material to use a diffuse shader then the render issues do not occur, but obviously I lose the transparency on my texture.

Has anyone encountered this before? Is this a known limitation of the mesh generated by MegaShapes?

With AlphaBlended shader:
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With Diffuse shader:
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spookycat
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Post Re: Using Textures with Alpha on a Generated Mesh
on: February 13, 2014, 22:12
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That does look very odd, just tried a transparent material and works as expected, when setting the materials for shape that is turned into a mesh you should not add the material as normal but set it in the meshing options in the MegaShape inspector as it will be assigned from there to the generated mesh. Could you email me a larger version of the images they are a little too small to make out what could be going on.

Ceraph
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Post Re: Using Textures with Alpha on a Generated Mesh
on: February 17, 2014, 15:51
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I'm still not entire sure what is causing the issue but I have found that when this does happen unchecking and then rechecking the "generate mesh" box will generate a new mesh that renders correctly. The issue does seem to keep happening, but every time I've regenerated the mesh it has rendered correctly so if someone is running into this same problem this is a workable solution.

spookycat
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Post Re: Using Textures with Alpha on a Generated Mesh
on: February 17, 2014, 15:54
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Which version of MegaShapes are you using? Its in the readme.txt file?

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