Texture with transparent background

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Texture with transparent background

Post by LeonRegis »

I thought that deleting background and saving as PNG would make that texture have a transparent background, so that we could look through it...

Here is the PNG file (I'm using photoshop) just tell me what button I forgot to press.
cross.png
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Re: Texture with transparent background

Post by Finis »

Hi Leon,

Model side. You can use a two layer texture to put the cross on the sail. Make the base layer the sail texture and the second layer the cross. Use two images for the cross layer. One is the the cross texture you want to see and the other is a transparency mask. Make it white where you want to see through, black for opaque, and shades of gray for partially transparent.

When doing it this way don't use any native transparency feature of png.

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Re: Texture with transparent background

Post by ranger0101 »

LeonRegis... :)


On TrueSpace model side you would make
background Black and then use transperencey Map.
Every thing black would be transparent...

I used the same pic for Color Map,Tranperancey Map and Bump Map.
You don'thave to use a Bump Map...


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Re: Texture with transparent background

Post by LeonRegis »

Thanks guys it now worked!!!

You can see the result:

vi ... 934#p23934"
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