Hi,
When I render with “transparent background” checked (in the Render Tab) the background does not render but renders as black. Maybe I’m not remembering correctly but I recalled last wip we could render with transparent background checked and Rhino would still render the background. Then when we saved the image checking alpha (the option under the rendered image when we save it) Rhino saved the image without the background and unchecking save alpha saved the rendering with the background rendered.
Am I remembering correctly? Now I have to render twice once with transparent background checked and then again with it unchecked.
RM
Ok thanks I must be thinking of 3dsmax I go back and forth. Might be a good idea don’t know if it’s possible but it would save me an extra rendering which is huge, Max has that feature why not have it in Rhino? I don’t see why it renders black if save transparency is checked. Plus if you uncheck transparent background in the rendering tab and still have it checked in the save rendering dialog box it doesn’t matter but might lead to confusion. Maybe for consistency this should be uncheckable or greyed since it doesn’t work in that case. Also the ability to save post fxs and still get alpha channel export would be great.
RM
From Rhino 6 to Rhino 7 the AlphaChannel output has changed. It might be better now, or more like how Blender saves the Alpha Channel. Is it possible to add an option where you can select a different color to be used when saving JPG’s from the FrameBuffer? I would prefer to keep the Alpha in PNG’s but have a white background added “in the back” when saving the same render as a JPG.
In Rhino 6.0 SR 31 the “flattened” = “backmost background” will always be black. - Or am I wrong here?
Also (not directly related to Alpha) is it possible to save thicker isocurves for the contours in renderings?
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