$translucent

Basic VMT syntax

"$translucent" 1

• Used with UnlitGeneric, VertexLitGeneric, LightmappedGeneric and many more shaders to enable a opacity map according to the alpha channel of the $basetexture.
• Warning: There are reports of a Rendering bug which reverses the overlay order of multiple translucent materials; so that the further material occludes the nearer one. The preferred solution appears to be to use $alphatest instead or $translucent.

Additional Parameters

$alpha

"$alpha" float

• Scales material opacity by the 'float' number.

$alphatest

Sometimes $translucent leads to rendering errors in the game: eg where modelA is behind modelB, but modelB gets hidden by modelA. If this happens, using the command "$alphatest" 1 instead of "$translucent" 1 should fix it.

• VMT syntax example:

      // "$translucent" 1
      "$alphatest" 1

• Every pixel with an alpha value less than 178 will be completely transparent in game. (However, values close to this value will confuse the shader at distances.)
• This type of shading costs much less than $translucent shading.

$additive

"$additive" 1

• Renders the texture additively (Its colors are added to, instead of replacing, what is displayed behind it).