Textures on my MeshPart are not transparent in areas where they should be

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#1

I’m not versed at all in the 3D-modeling and texture world, and none of the similar previous posts on the DevForum remedied my issue, so here I am.

I grabbed a free-to-use locker model off of SketchFab, that should supposedly look like this based on the preview (note the transparent screen doors):

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I imported the FBX into Studio, grabbed a SurfaceAppearance and set the textures accordingly for each of the three parts of the mesh, and opted on setting the AlphaMode to Transparency based on the other posts I read:

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And my model ended up looking like this, without the transparency on the screen doors:

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Unfortunately, I still had two textures left over, the Alpha texture (which as I understand holds the key to the transparency issue) and the “AO” texture which I’m not too sure of.

I tried tweaking the transparency of the MeshPart itself as per advice from the other posts I came across earlier and also replaced some of the textures with each-other to no avail.

As I understand it, I need to incorporate that Alpha texture somehow but evidently there’s no slot for it. Could anyone point me in the right direction here? I have access to basic photo-editing software, so I was wondering if there was a way I could merge textures together or something. Again, this is completely alien to me.

Thanks in advance.

#2

Don’t transparent decals or images need to be a .png file format?

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#3

If you want transparency then you must have your files in the .png format because that format allows opacity.

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#4

The texture files supplied by the original author were JPEGs, so from what I understand I’m not sure I can get that opacity back now without me actually editing the textures themselves. Nonetheless, I changed the format just in case but there was no difference.

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I guess I’m just convinced that ROBLOX has yet to include support for Alpha maps.

#5

maybe you can edit them your self? or just stick with that.

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#6

Can’t you just use something like paint.net or another program to convert from jpeg to png?

#7

if you change the mesh’s transparency to something like 0.1 it should apply the alpha texture