Alpha textures for the background of an animation

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ok so i want to be able to make an animation and put it in the background of something real. i can use after effect to edit it in and all but i just need to know how to make the blender background transparent. can anyone tell me how?

thanks

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Press F10 and in the far right panel click RGBA.

This only works for output formats that can do transparent backgrounds. PNG can do it. AVI cannot.

Hope this helps.

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ok i did it and also looked at http://wbs.nsf.tc/tutorial/tutorial2_alpha_e.html this tutorial. it is still showing a blue background. shouldnt it be checkered looking?

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blue is the color. You can make the world setting to be a real image, a checkered background, or stick with the blue. It doesnt matter, the alpha value is 0.

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Anything assigned to be a sky texture is always behind all objects, if you can’t see all the objects, then you need to increase the camera range.

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thanks guys :slight_smile:

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wait. im acually using this to overlay in something else. so if i use this it will overlay just fine?

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The images produced by blender have the proper alpha channels, so you can stick whatever you like behind them just fine.

I’ve never used After Effects, so I don’t know how do anything with that program. You indicated that you knew…

Did I miss something?