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Author Topic: Alpha Channel Help  (Read 4564 times)

mzabritski

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Alpha Channel Help
« on: September 27, 2012, 03:18:57 am »
September 27, 2012, 03:18:57 am
Brand new to Lumion.  Just bought it tonight after a few days of playing with the free version.  Need a bit of help with some materials though.  I've read everything I can find on the forum, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.  I'm just trying to use a simple chain link fence

If I use this attached texture in SketchUp and export the sketchup model to Lumion, it works fine.  If I try to create a custom material in Lumion using the same TGA file, it gives a black background instead of transparent.  Am I doing something wrong?
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Biju Kumar

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Re: Alpha Channel Help
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2012, 05:40:48 am »
September 27, 2012, 05:40:48 am
Convert your texture to PNG and remove your background. TGA as alpha is not yet supported.
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peterm

Re: Alpha Channel Help
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2012, 05:57:01 am »
September 27, 2012, 05:57:01 am
Your TGA is OK to use as it has an alpha channel and v2.5 reads OK.  Just set the slider value for the Material Property - Reflection or Clip to 1.

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mzabritski

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Re: Alpha Channel Help
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2012, 05:16:41 pm »
September 27, 2012, 05:16:41 pm
The Reflection or Clip set to 1 was the problem.  Thanks for the help.  Really looking forward to working with the program and with the Lumion community.
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