alpha tree

Support Materials and Textures
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well, I know that you can make good looking trees with just two planes with alpha textures, however, I can’t figure out how to do this. I have 2 textures to the plane, one for color and one for the alpha image. everything I’ve tried has failed when it comes to rendering. I have this program called paint.NET and there you can paint right on the alpha channel, however, it turns out black when it’s in blender. so, does anyone know what I should do?
thanks

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Actually, yesterday I was trying to do the same thing. I didn’t get very far, but this might help

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=72760&highlight=transparent

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thanks! I got it!