[Vikas Sodhani]

i just realized what i was doing wrong. i was saving the file as an AVI. i am assuming an AVI does not support alpha channels. i saved the file as a quicktime and everything worked.

hope this helps someone else.

-vikas-

[Vikas Sodhani]

sorry i actually figured a piece of this out. i needed to add a NURBs to the closed spline before i could add a material to it.

the question i have now is is there an easy way to add an outline to my new object. what ive done is create a flat closed spline then added the extrude nurb to it. From there ive added a material and made this new object move around a background that is a video clip. The problem is that the animated object needs an outline because it looks formless without it. In adobe illustrator this would be analgous to adding a stroke. I am new to cinema 4d and dont know if there is something similar.

Thanks so much.

-vikas-