VTFedit (Making TGA into material?)

[sk3tch]

VTFedit help:

I have been using VTEX in the bin directory to make materials for the longest time due mainly to the fact I could never get VTFedit to work properly. When I open a TGA file in VTFedit, it makes the alpha 8 bit...but I notice I need 1 for translucent. It won't let me change it at all.

Is there something I'm missing? I thought you could just open a TGA and convert it to a VMT without problems. I also tried re-installing VTFedit but it eliminated Nice Filtered option right above the clamp-U option (see image below...changed it to unused).

So..in a nutshell...HOW DO I USE VTFEDIT to ENTIRELY make a translucent material? And why did I lose options when I re-installed VTFedit? Is there a tutorial anywhere to do this properly?

[Wunderboy]

You dont. You define it as translucent in the VMT files with $translucent "1". The VTF is just the bitmap data for the texture, the VMT set-ups the shader and how it's meant to be rendered.