Leaf Not Working Properly

[ShaafiCoffee]

Hi, I’m having some trouble with a leaf texture and would like some help. In the screenshot below you can see I’m making a branch with a leaf, problem is the whole plane is showing when rendered. On one layer it was fine, it was showing only the leaf and not the whole plane, but when I moved it the plane started showing too. How can I fix this? All I want is the leaf to show. I’ve attached the blend file and the texture if you need it.
This is the tutorial I followed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhQzDcp42dc He starts making the leaf around 12:55
Thanks!

emblem leaf not working Share.blend (632 KB)

[ShaafiCoffee]

Here it works but when I move it, it doesn’t.

[Kaluura]

It doesn’t work. It can’t work at all because JPEG images have no alpha channel.

Try with a PNG. You’ll see the difference.

[eppo]

Funny enough, but it can work…If your jpeg’s background is white. There is some light artefact border which might be what you do not want. Then you need another jpg picture as a mask driving Fac which is 1 pixel around less than leaf itself (b/w version of it) or proper png with color of transparent pixels. See this Kent Trammell’s tut http://vimeo.com/27251560

[ShaafiCoffee]

Oh ok. I plugged in the image Kaluura provided and It worked! Thank you both.

[Benny_G]

For glossy/bump and translucency take a look to this tutorial with cycles http://cgcookie.com/blender/2013/10/03/tip-randomizing-leaf-color/