Just posting something I noticed in Blender 2.44 (maybe a bug in other versions as well).
I have PNG file with an alpha channel that shows up correctly in After Effects and in Photoshop.
Try this…
Launch Blender.
Delete the cube
Create a plane
Assing a mterial to the plane
Add a texture
Make the texture an image
Browse to the attached photo
Render and observe the result.
Blender can not recognize the full alpha of this image.
This looks like a bug, but maybe I am doing something wrong here.
I thought I’d post it and see if anyone else observes the same result.
three things: 1) did you in the textures panel click UseAlpha?
2) in the materials panel, did you slide the base material alpha to 0?
3) in the texture channel MapTo, did you click Alpha?
I just tried it. It works as expected since the .png does not seem to have a correct alpha channel - I then rebuild it in Photoshop and it delivers a perfect result. So, hessiess is right here.
Hi!
I have checked the png file in The Gimp and the alpha layer is OK.
I have tested the texture in Blender, with Use Alpha, Alpha enabled on the material, Shadless, Alpha =0 and Z transp enabled :
The rendering is fine, only the building is visible. It works well.
Tested with Blender 2.44under Windows XP Home Edition SP1 ona pentieum 4-2GHz with 1.5GB Ram.
Philippe.
STS, that’s what I call artistic - make a cool image out of nothing and just fortesting purposes - I like it
And when I said I had to modify it, I meant that I made the windows were transparent as well. As it seems that is not really what he wanted anyway, so…it would have worked without that adjustment, too.
Bit off-topic, but lately all I have been doing have been for testing purposes (usually my own experiments). It’s actually a good way to practice different things, just experiment with little scenes and with different techniques etc. If I find a nice solution to something I just save the file for further reference. My “tests” directory has been getting bigger and bigger lately.
Also I think that those 10sec animations, 1h modeling etc etc practices and general quick testings are indeed really good way to get practice and fluent work flow.
Also I have noticed that if I get some idea I should immediately make notes of it. Either to my phone or to notebook. After a while you won’t get out of ideas to practice on.
Nevertheless I should undertake some bigger project to put those practices to use… No use experimenting otherwise
True, true. I like to do testing myself and sometimes I even start bigger things and in the end see them as “experiments” only. When that happens I don’t tell myself that I have wasted time, no, I’d say it is time well spent and it happened quite a few times that I needed to use techniques which I have learned with such experiments.
Although you’re right, of course, if you keep on doing tests for nothing, what is the purpose of doing it? So, at the moment I’m working on a big thing which will become something real…
Thanks,
At least it is not a bug. As you can see by my original post, blender did render it inccorectly at one time. The strangest thing because the alpha did look fine in photoshop and after effects.
I wonder what would cause blender to render it as it was posted up above?
@ Hessiess: Of course there are different approaches to train yourself.
Personally I find it a little annoying if I’m doing some project and I have to stop just to test something out for a longer time. If possible, I like to test out best methods to solve at least potential bottleneck areas of the project that I am about to start.
