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quiet violet Feb 9, 2023, 5:12 PM

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What is the exact issue currently?

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You said that the problem was the the slash was "transparent" but I understood that's what you wanted, just not additive transparency

candid folio Feb 9, 2023, 5:13 PM

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I guess the slash should not be transparent, unlike what's shown in the image

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The red part is still additive despite setting it to alpha

quiet violet Feb 9, 2023, 5:14 PM

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Did you try other blend modes as well?

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Premultiplied may help

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Opaque will confirm that something changes

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Did changing from additive to alpha change it at all
I don't know as it's the same picture you posted before changing anything

candid folio Feb 9, 2023, 5:16 PM

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So apparently opaque does this

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premultiplied makes it larger

quiet violet Feb 9, 2023, 5:16 PM

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Larger how?

candid folio Feb 9, 2023, 5:16 PM

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But the other two are pretty much the same

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wait a sec

quiet violet Feb 9, 2023, 5:17 PM

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Opaque can also be used for particle effects but you usually want to use alpha clipping together with it

candid folio Feb 9, 2023, 5:18 PM

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larger

candid folio Feb 9, 2023, 5:18 PM

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quiet violet Opaque can also be used for particle effects but you usually want to use alpha c...

Is there a way to make the black part transparent with opaque?

quiet violet Feb 9, 2023, 5:19 PM

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candid folio Is there a way to make the black part transparent with opaque?

with alpha clipping
If the option doesn't show up below the blend mode, you may need to enable it in the shader graph's Graph Inspector

candid folio Feb 9, 2023, 5:20 PM

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So alpha clipping just removes it entirely

quiet violet Feb 9, 2023, 5:21 PM

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Alpha clipping uses "alpha threshold" to determine where the cutoff point is

candid folio Feb 9, 2023, 5:24 PM

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Works perfectly now, thank you

quiet violet Feb 9, 2023, 5:24 PM

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Great! It's cheaper to render too

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Though it doesn't have semi-transparency

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Blending red and light green will always result in pink to some degree but premultiplication matters

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I don't know what type of premultiplication the "premultiplied" blend mode uses but as a more practical example if your texture fades to black when it fades to transparent, it'll be less pink

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Pure white base texture, fades only on alpha channel

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Also fades to black on color channels together with alpha

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If that makes sense

candid folio Feb 9, 2023, 5:30 PM

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Alpha was how black/white the image was, right

quiet violet Feb 9, 2023, 5:31 PM

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Alpha is the fourth color channel, for transparency

candid folio Feb 9, 2023, 5:32 PM

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Okay I genuinely knew that, trust me

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But alpha interacts with black/white in certain settings, right

quiet violet Feb 9, 2023, 5:56 PM

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candid folio But alpha interacts with black/white in certain settings, right

What do you mean by that?

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I think the only interaction of alpha and color are that alpha determines the amount of alpha blending to do with the chosen blending mode

candid folio Feb 9, 2023, 7:17 PM

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quiet violet What do you mean by that?

Like black can be either opaque or transparent depending on the alpha setting

quiet violet Feb 9, 2023, 7:23 PM

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candid folio Like black can be either opaque or transparent depending on the alpha setting

We may be talking about the same thing but it sounds like you're mincing concepts there

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Rendering/Blending Mode determines how to blend according to alpha value
Alpha value does not have a relationship to RGB color information (including black or white)
Some Blending Modes' transparency is affected by RGB values, in addition to alpha
For example with additive blending black is fully transparent, with subtractive blending white is

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