Texture Alpha Working Everywhere but Render

[CorvusE]

Augh!

Background: I’m using textures with UV warp modifiers attached to bones for facial animations. I’m using Blender Render with a few composite passes, including Freestyle.

Problem: My eyelid texture is set up with a half circle texture of the desired color influencing the diffuse color, alpha, and specular color on a transparent material. In the material preview - it works. If I turn on material shading in the 3D viewport - it works. When I turn on render view, or actually render it - it doesn’t work.

What I’ve tried: Adding the eyelid texture to the eye material - no good. Use a material of the color I want with the texture only effecting alpha - nope. Using a separate mesh - nada. Using a non-ngon circle - zilch. Recalculating normals - NO. Toggling the material as single side/double sided - NO GO.

What I haven’t tried - tweaking my render settings. But I’m rendering transparency just fine. And the eyes themselves work fine.

HALP!

Visual evidence (.blend also attached):

Attachments

chibi.blend (1.58 MB)

[Richard_Marklew]

You have not included the eye lid texture in your blend file.
For the eye lid material, in its texture try changing the Image Mapping extension from ‘Clip’ to ‘Repeat’

[CorvusE]

Oops, should have collected the textures. However - before the mod approved this post - I fixed it!

Turns out material view is very forgiving about your “From” object’s position in the modifier, while the render is not. Duping the “to” bone and making a “from” bone with the same origin, fixed the problem right up.

And now I’ve got the lids on the eye material, saving the need for the extra geometry.