Model transparency and self illumination doable? (source)

    For adding transparency i use "Alphatest" 1 and it works flawlessly on my model, however I would like to add self illumination in some parts of the texture as well.

    The problem is that "alphatest" and "$selfillum" are both using the basetextures Alphachannel.

    How can I work around this problem? Is it even doable?

    Thanks in advance =).

    Quote from Furyo

    an envmapmask could help, with a bit of saturation. Look at the lost coast fresco materials for an example of valve's shaders.

    I dont understand how i could replace selfillum with an envmapmask? The results should be far from simliar..?

    Quote from fonfa

    you can make a separate map for it afaik

    In that case, what should I write instead of $selfillum "1" ?

    I cant find any info about it in the source sdk wiki.

    I've been trying this before if I remember right. Sadly I couldn't find a way to do it then.

    Somehow for this to work you must obviously be able to specify either the transperancy mask or the illumination mask as in the vmt as a separate texture. So far I don't think that's possible but I can be wrong.

    If you do find a way however please post what you did

    GL

    It is possible. Did it with the aimpoint of the M4 in Insurgency so it glows at night/in dark areas.

    The texture has to be a "UnlitGeneric" instead of a "VertexLitGeneric"

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