• Zaxwerks

  How can I set underlying transparency in invigorator

  Posted by Mark Cookman on March 3, 2010 at 5:43 pm

  4.3.0
  I have a layer mapped material that gradually introduces transparent areas – as these appear the underlying (default) surface colour of my object is revealed – how can I obtain a transparent default colour?

  Edward Wu replied 16 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Edward Wu

  March 3, 2010 at 6:50 pm

  Hi Mark,

  I’m not quite sure what you meant by a transparent default color. Can you elaborate a little more on that?

  In general, if you want a material swatch to be transparent, you can adjust the “Transparency” setting, and your material will become transparent. If you’re working with a layer map, it can be a pre-comp where you animate the alpha channel. Then the transparency area for your object can move to introduce different areas like you mentioned.

  Best,
  Edward
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  Mark Cookman

  March 4, 2010 at 4:43 pm

  By default colour I mean what Zax refers to as underlying surface colour.

  For any folks trying to make parts of their objects transparent: – you need to assign alpha information to the texture map thumbnail position next to transparency; ie. second slot from bottom.
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  Edward Wu

  March 4, 2010 at 6:02 pm

  Hi Mark,

  The surface color transparency is controlled by the Transparency setting. If you adjust the transparency, your material will become transparent. However, if you have a Transparency map applied, the transparency will only be applied to the areas that are non-white on your transparency map. This means that areas that are white will still be opaque while gray/black areas will become transparent.

  Best,
  Edward

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