How do you make things transparent in Blender?

[Flubbman]

I just can't find it anywhere. I've just started learning Blender and know a little, but I can't find how to make things transparent. Can someone tell me, or post a pic of where it is? I use Blender 2.49b.

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[Flubbman]

Come on, please reply.

[Flubbman]

Come on, please reply.

[Flubbman]

Hello?!?

[ShadowsfeaR]

Epic bump fail

[Flubbman]

Epic bump fail

Well, nobody ever replied, I had to bump.

[Flubbman]

Is anyone out there?

[chilmans]

ever googled?

[Flubbman]

ever googled?

Yes. I found a good one, but that was for another version of Blender.

[goz3rr]

Try an transparent texture... ??

[Flubbman]

Try an transparent texture... ??

But how? Like I said, I don't know that much about Blender.

[Demian]

Shading > Material tab > "A" slider below the RGB sliders

then

Shading > Mirror trans tab > Enable "Ray Transp"

Second and third links in Google with "Blender transparency".

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Materials/Properties/Raytraced_Transparency
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Textures/Use_Alpha_for_Object_Transparency

[Flubbman]

I did what you said, Demian, but it doesn't work. When I do this, the ball in the bottom left corner gets transparent, not the actual object. I have selected the object, but it still doesn't work.

[Demian]

The transparency doesn't show in the 3D view, you need to render it.

[Flubbman]

The transparency doesn't show in the 3D view, you need to render it.

But... when I change the color, the object changes color. Then, how do I render it? I know, I sound like an idiot.