{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ME3Explorer/ME3Explorer/issues/273","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ME3Explorer/ME3Explorer","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ME3Explorer/ME3Explorer/issues/273/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ME3Explorer/ME3Explorer/issues/273/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ME3Explorer/ME3Explorer/issues/273/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ME3Explorer/ME3Explorer/issues/273","id":143583692,"number":273,"title":"r746, Texplorer, Alpha Handling","user":{"login":"giftfish","id":13645804,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13645804?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish","html_url":"https://github.com/giftfish","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ME3Explorer/ME3Explorer/labels/bug","name":"bug","color":"fc2929"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":{"login":"KFreon","id":7845997,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7845997?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/KFreon","html_url":"https://github.com/KFreon","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KFreon/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KFreon/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KFreon/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KFreon/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KFreon/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KFreon/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KFreon/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KFreon/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KFreon/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"milestone":null,"comments":11,"created_at":"2016-03-25T20:00:32Z","updated_at":"2016-03-27T01:49:19Z","closed_at":null,"body":"First, this is a monumental achievement. I just perma-replaced my very first texture for ME1 with 100% success. Yay! Sort of. There's some type of issue with alpha.\r\n\r\nI used CDAMJC's Avina body textures. Both the diff and VFX texture. Here's what it should look like; this is with Texmod:\r\n![masseffect 2016-03-25 12-40-20-35](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13645804/14052435/8efc7cfa-f287-11e5-845b-13275586e5e1.png)\r\nHere is what the exact same two textures look like, installed with Texplorer:\r\n![masseffect 2016-03-25 11-56-51-51](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13645804/14051676/08dbaf1a-f282-11e5-90b3-8fcf6f9a691e.png)\r\n\r\nObviously there's a problem. Her body is almost invisible; her head almost as much. \r\n\r\nSince the texture works properly in Texmod, that leads me to think the following:\r\n\r\n1. Improper alpha in the texture\r\n2. Bad alpha handling in Texplorer\r\n3. Bad Texturegroup re-assignment\r\n4. Bad texture replacement\r\n5. Incorrect INI setting\r\n6. ?\r\n\r\nHere's what the alpha channel for both new textures look like in GIMP:\r\n![alphaproblem](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13645804/14052656/04157be4-f289-11e5-86d3-d83bd0ecfd94.PNG)\r\n\r\n\r\nI understand the black/white concept of alpha, but I don't understand the discrepancy between the alpha layer thumbnail (white/opaque) and the alpha layer on the actual image (black/transparent), as displayed in GIMP. Presumably, CDAMJC knows what he's doing and the alpha is correct, but I don't know this for certain. Upon extracting the vanilla textures, their alpha is identical to each other and to the modded textures.\r\n\r\nHere's a side-by-side:\r\n![avina_compare](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13645804/14052509/20de9cc0-f288-11e5-8a78-48acc3d90a4d.PNG)\r\n\r\nThe left one is a DIFF, the right a SPEC. The Texturegroup changes from this to LightandShadowmap\r\n![lod group changed](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13645804/14052624/d3e9f74c-f288-11e5-917d-d27696d102cc.PNG)\r\n\r\nSo... any idea what the problem is?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ME3Explorer/ME3Explorer/issues/comments/201970969","html_url":"https://github.com/ME3Explorer/ME3Explorer/issues/273#issuecomment-201970969","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ME3Explorer/ME3Explorer/issues/273","id":201970969,"user":{"login":"giftfish","id":13645804,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13645804?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish","html_url":"https://github.com/giftfish","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/giftfish/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-27T01:49:19Z","updated_at":"2016-03-27T01:49:19Z","body":"Hrm. K... the VFX texture is a DXT1... what about the 80%/20% thing we were talking about in the other thread?\r\n\r\nLet me try to replace just the diff and see what happens..."}}