For a demo I''m trying to make a planet with two textures. the ground which spins with the planet, and then a cloud texture that spins independently of the ground, but blends with it where there are clouds, (much like the earth looks from above). When I use multitexturing, openGL just blends the two together and the ground just gets a little lighter. I tried setting it to decal mode, but of course that totally obscures the ground texture. Unfortunately I don''t have a program that will let me generate TGA files (so I could have an alpha part to help with the transparency). SO, is there a (fairly) simple way to add an alpha component to a (the cloud) texture so that i can overlay it on top of the ground texture without totally obscuring it? (I know this is my third question today, if posting too many questions too quickly is against the mores here just let me know and i''ll stop). Thanks!

First of all, I dont think this is a perfect place for multitexture.. the clouds should be a bit over the ground.. so i should create a second sphere, just a bit bigger than the first and have the clouds on that one instead..

Second, the blending between the texures in multitexture mode sets just like between the polygon color and the first texture, but set the glTexEnv when the second unit is active.. But in this case i dont know if there are a good envmode among the standard ones, maybe GL_BLEND and some tweaking, but you should look for the ENV_COMBINE extention, that allows you to do much better blending between the texture-units.

Thanks guys, that helps a lot.

Thanks guys, that helps a lot.