completely transparent ships?

[Mikemckeon007]

recently i redicovered an issue from log ago. transparent ships when adding an alpha channel to the tecture. i have autodesk and i was trying to solve the issue last night. well i wasnt sober when i did that and i solved the issue. now i cant recreate the fix. i got the model showing but it has a dimmer color than the one i fixed and when i zoom out of the model ingame it turns a white color like the ship has not texture all of a sudden. i know the old trick of !phong and all that jazz. im try9ing to learn how to fix it correctly without using a workaround. any advice or tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated. side note, all the work i have been doing is for a bsg full race in fleet ops. i have several assets to release when i get around to compiling all the stuff for it.

 

[Mikemckeon007]

recently i redicovered an issue from log ago. transparent ships when adding an alpha channel to the tecture. i have autodesk and i was trying to solve the issue last night. well i wasnt sober when i did that and i solved the issue. now i cant recreate the fix. i got the model showing but it has a dimmer color than the one i fixed and when i zoom out of the model ingame it turns a white color like the ship has not texture all of a sudden. i know the old trick of !phong and all that jazz. im try9ing to learn how to fix it correctly without using a workaround. any advice or tips or pointers would be greatly appreciated. side note, all the work i have been doing is for a bsg full race in fleet ops. i have several assets to release when i get around to compiling all the stuff for it.

i over wrote the file while not sober like an a hole

 

[Mikemckeon007]

lol so I figured it out. these are the settings in Autodesk 3ds max 2016. I'm sure they will be similar in later editions. Once you do this, don't forget to make an alpha channel on your corresponding textures.