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Importing Images, Alpha turns white?
This must be an easy one, and yet here i am, baffled. I’m trying to apply an image to an object, but the “background” of the image, which should be transparent, turns white in C4D. I’ve tried png, psd, tiff, gif… what am i doing wrong?
Thank you,
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6 Replies
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Have you tried *.tga
Alan
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Put your image with the transparent background
into the Colour- and Alpha-Channels of the material.
Does that work ?Cheers
Nolan -
I tried applying the image to the alpha property in addition to the color property. It did remove the white background of the image, but unfortunately it also made the object transparent too, but only on the FRONT!? It’s a cylinder, with a face set as the image on both the color and alpha property. The picture is set to “front and back” and tile, so it shows up on back of the cylinder. Both of the faces are now “cut out” (don’t have the white rectangular bkgrnd that they did b4 i added the image to alpha), but now, one of the images is mapped properly on the yellow cylinder and one of them erases the cylinder and is floating in mid-air. The same thing happens with a tga. Weird?
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Please have a look here:
https://www.maxoncomputer.com/tutorial_detail.asp?tutorialID=42
or in the Manual (9.6) page 870.
Cheers
Nolan -
Educational, but unfortunately it didn’t address textures with alpha, and how to keep the alpha from turning white. I don’t have a recent manual, but i’ll check my version 7 manual. I could just give up and work around it, true, but this just seems so obvious, i find it hard to believe C4D can’t deal with alpha. I’m the kind of idiot that will beat my head against a wall for a week if i think there should be a door there. PLEASE! Somebody tell me there’s a door! : )
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Did you ever get an answer to this question? I am having the same Problem with my tif
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