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Help - Rendering Transparent background

lcattus_9716520438lcattus_9716520438 Posts: 31
edited December 1969 in New Users

Hi guys,

I'm rendering an animation and need a transparent background. I've tried rendering png & tiff image sequences but I always get the view port color as the background. Any ideas?

cheers - lucia

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,950
    edited December 1969

    What are your render settings? You usually need to use 3delight to get an alpha channel.

  • lcattus_9716520438lcattus_9716520438 Posts: 31
    edited December 1969

    Richard thanks for the quick reply. I'm using 3Delight in DAZ3d Studio 4.0 Pro rendering to a tif image series . I've attached a screen cap of my settings. I've also attached one of the tif frames complete with white view port backgound. This site won't let me attach the tif so i converted it to jpg but the tif has the same white non-transparent background.

    cheers - lucia

    fly002.jpg
    448 x 252 - 20K
    8-19-2012_6-54-47_AM.jpg
    629 x 721 - 66K
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,950
    edited December 1969

    I just tried in 4.5 and like you I got a solid background. The good news is that there is an alpha channel in there to use as a mask, though that's not automatic of course. A PNG does seem to have a transparent background from the outset.

  • lcattus_9716520438lcattus_9716520438 Posts: 31
    edited December 1969

    Right - it looks like png works - thought that I tried that last night but evidently not.

    thanks Richard

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