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Alpha exports are ugly? Can’t loop with image sequences?
Hey all-
I’m working with particle illusion on a video game a small team I am on is developing. This particular scene consists of a waterfall splashing into a pool of water. I am doing the waterfall and the splashing as two separate layers. However when I try and export these animations with an alpha channel they acquire a very ugly gray border that is not there within the program. Is this impossible to get around? They of course do not appear if they render straight to video but I can’t do anything with that.On top of that that looping tutorial does not work for image exports because of the alpha mask. Is there a way to do this? Obviously a seamless loop would be essential for a video game where the background is static and one can watch the screen for as long as they wish. Thanks all!
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4 Replies
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The “ugly” colors are due to the “remove black bg from RGB… ” option. Uncheck that.
You can load each layer (sequence) into another compositing app and loop them there. The tutorial on our site is for those who don’t have a compositing app.
Alan.
wondertouch -
I don’t have that option checked. I also put shrink up to 20% and did a “non-hard” alpha or whatever it was called. I still get a gray outline but to a much lesser extent, but it’s not quite the same as the beautiful quality if what you see straight in particle illusion.
Any recommendations on a good compositing program that won’t break the bank? Thanks!
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Check the pIllusion docs in the alpha channel section for more info on getting a good alpha channel (depends on what sorts of particles you have).
Any video editing / compositing software will work. I’m pretty sure that people have posted about free ones here before… hopefully somebody else will remember more details.
Alan.
wondertouch -
There’s Wax, which I think should do the job. There’s also the open-source Jahshaka, which just put out a new release. Some editing programs should be able to do it too, just so long as you can have more than two video tracks and you can export a clip with an alpha channel.
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