Question by Waka-Takaki · Apr 18, 2016 at 04:43 PM · rendering shaders transparency fade transparent shader

Standard shader's Fade rendering mode won't allow full opacity with a textured material

I have a sphere that is using the Standard Shader, and I'd like to adjust the opacity.

So I've set the material's shader settings to use the Fade Render mode from the standard shader. This instantly seems to either completely remove the base texture and just leave highlights or severely reduce alpha on the material.

Reducing the alpha in code works, but seems to use the already partly transparent material as it's fully opaque setting.

See below:

Opaque Sphere

Fade Sphere

I've changed absolutely nothing except rendering mode from opaque to fade. The alpha should be at 100% for both, so why is the Fade rendering mode not rendering 100% opaque when alpha isn't set lower?

Thanks Dan

opaque.png (80.2 kB)

fade.png (83.4 kB)

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Eno-Khaon · Apr 18, 2016 at 05:19 PM 0

In your texture's import settings, is "Alpha from Grayscale" checked, by any chance?

Waka-Takaki · Apr 18, 2016 at 09:46 PM 0

@$$anonymous$$o $$anonymous$$haon Thanks for the comment. No it's not checked. Checking it doesn't seem to do anything though. The texture is imported as a "Texture" type and with neither "Alpha from greyscale" or "Alpha is transparent" checked.