normal, alpha and color maps

Hey guys, I’m currently working on this tutorial:

I’m working on the part where I make the leaves. The problem is that after I make the plane that I am supposed to use to give my leaves physical depth, but I can’t see my leaves. I just see the edges of my transparent plane.

Here are some screen shots and a picture of the leaves I’m trying to use. I noticed that he changed his image to have a green background. Is that part significant? I tried to leave my background transparent but then I was not able to export it from gimp in a proper file format?


Thanks for the help :slight_smile: And I already tried turning z transparency off, all I get is a round white ball. No leaf texture.

Guess its time for a bump

Does no one know how to do this?

hi,

please be more precise in explaining what you did (or better yet: post a blend file). have you unwrapped anything yet. have you rendered something?
also: the links to your screenshots are broken.