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Transparency from Blender to Unity. How to do it?
Hi. I'm currently working on a game where I need a transparent tube with three colors on it: yellow, green, and red. I want the player to be able to see the ball go through the tube as the colors light up to the balls corresponding position. I made a model in Blender that consisted of three separate cylinders lined up together, their end faces deleted, then the tubes solidifyed, each given a Z-transparent material (Alpha and Specular both at 0), and lastly smoothed out. In Blender the render preview shows that the model will be nearly invisible. However, when I import the model into Unity and make the materials have Transparent/Diffuse settings, while the tubes look perfect, they also get solid faces on their ends when viewed from an angle. When I look straight down the tube there are no end faces, but at an angle I see them in both the editor and game camera view. Why are these faces there and how do I get rid of them? Is this a Unity problem or a Blender one? Is there a better way to make a model like this? Here's a screenshot of a view of the model in the Unity editor and game preview.
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Looks like just a lot of simple modelling problems. There's a lot more to learn that you'd think for modelling+exporting for games. I think the real answer is: if you haven't exported and used 30+ different models, over a few months, don't expect to be good at it.
Just looking/reading:
o Don't even bother setting up materials outside of Unity. You'll have to redo them in Unity, anyway. Easier to just make them all in Unity to begin with.
o Looks like a flat/smooth shading problem (diagonal light/dark line on the sides.)
o Comparing to the lighting on the sphere, the normals may be backwards.
