Vertex alpha not working any more?

[tobiasniva]

Tried to follow this tutorial, but it´s not working.

http://guildofwriters.com/wiki/Decal_Blending

Is the vertex alpha blending not supported any more (pyprp 1.5.0, Blender 2.48a)?

[Grogyan]

Topic has been brought up before less than a couple of weeks ago, it turned out I think that there is a new method out with 2.48a
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Texture_Paint

Just paint with alpha, and save the image as TGA, and it must be grayscale ie black and white, then use the stenciling method on the wiki, not decals, as i'm not sure they even work anymore

[Nadnerb]

It does still work, and I'm not sure what to tell the people who it's failing for besides "it works for me"... You may want to try playing with the alpha buttons in the material and layer settings...

[Lontahv]

Works for me. Just make a second vertex-paint layer and call it "Alpha". Then paint black where you want alpha and white where you want solid. This is how I got the cubes in my RAD age to fade. IT _can_ be done (at least with the version I'm using--Paradox's contrib SVN). The same should apply for the latest release and the nightly.