Auto texture cut?

[Sniperkasa]

Okay so I just got an small flashback.. I thought someone said that there would be an auto-texture cut on Algodoo? I've found many small hints about this on Phun forum but I havent found anything like that on Algodoo..?
Is it missing or was there never meant to be one...?

[Versieon]

What do you mean by auto texture cut, i don't understand

[Sniperkasa]

Well, I'm not sure what people meant with it but many places on phun forums - (quote) "I am not going to buy Algodoo just because it has auto texture cut and some other fancy stuffs"
Though not all were exactly that comment. But as I got it, there was supposed to be some kind of auto-cut on the textures, I'm not sure how that could even work but.. Thats why I'm asking

[thebeech]

so like the magic wand tool on photoshop, where you select the white area(or whatever) and it just gets rid of that area and cuts it out ?

[xplane80]

It does have but you have to have a image with transparency on it e.g png or gif

[Versieon]

Ohhhhhh, now i get it

Its create a geom from texture in the apperance menu

[Sniperkasa]

Ahh so I need to use first photoshop magic wand and make the rest transparrent.. right?

[Versieon]

Pretty sure!

[Sniperkasa]

Whoa.. Sounds fhun 0.o I'll test it later today

[Rhett97]

I know what your talking about kasa in the algodoo video they had auto texture cut...

[silok]

Yes, at the moment Algodoo requires the texture to have transparency (alpha layer) to automatically extract geometry from it. To use it, select the texture and click "Appearance" -> "Generate geometry from texture".