Questions tagged [transparency]
Transparency can be anything from an alpha-channel in an image, to shaders in the BGE, to transparency in a material, to the alpha pass in the compositor.
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How do I make the "cornea" part of the eye see-through in the Material Preview? (Blender 3.6)
We're making an eye in Blender class, and the way the professor showed us was to cut off a bit of a sphere, make the iris and pupil separately, put those in the sphere, then put a transparent cover(...
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Objects inside transparent object don't render correctly [duplicate]
I'm trying to render a simple cosmetic lip balm tube. The body is made of blue and white plastic, while the overcap is made of clear plastic. When I produce a render, the overcap makes it look like ...
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Modifier issue in Cycles - Black Ghosting
I'm fairly new to Blender and was hoping you could help.
I'm creating a short animation for a University project and have come up against an issue.
I'm creating an animation where a sphere splits in ...
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Blender Eevee Transparent Material look different after render
I was working on something spent hours to create a good transparent material but when I hit render
it looks different and now I am stuck on this.
it looks fine in viewport but different in render.
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While trying to render a particle animation with a transparent background, render shows a black background
When I click the transparency under film render properties it shows transparent in the viewport, but when I render an image it shows a black background instead of transparent.
Particles render fine ...
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Export files without background to websites
I'm trying to export a file I designed as a transparent glass with the correct lighting.
But there is a difference between exporting with a dark background and exporting a transparent background.
The ...
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Automatically Rotoscope a transparent background?
I have a pixelated texture that is transparent. I want to actually remove the transparent background so that there is no real transparency, just a rotoscoped object. This is difficult to do manually, ...
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Render glare with alpha for compositing later
There's a lot of questions about this but they're really old and no one seems to mention the issue I'm running into. Here's a screenshot of this test scene I'm using to debug (Blender 4.0, using ...
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When I save my Render to PNG format some parts of render are totally black and white
I need help to find out what caused this problem, My particles in the background are totally colorful and correct in the viewport render and also the final render but after saving all of them are B&...
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Why is my render image appearing with the image and a white background ? Should be transparent PNG
I am looking to render a transparent png logo in Cycles. The logo I have is made with a low poly glass material and I have transparent and transparent glass selected in Film. I have attached pictures ...
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Strange results with Grease Pencil Fills, Holdout Materials, a 3D object and Render Transparency
I'm rather new to Blender so apologies if the answer is obvious.
I'm attempting to use a Grease Pencil Fill Material with Holdout to 'cut through' another fill and reveal a 3D object behind the Grease ...
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How to get rid of white alpha outline on images as planes? (Eevee)
I'm using Clip Studio Paint to draw and then export my drawings to pngs in order to animate them in Blender. Every time I do it I have the same issue of this white pixel border around my image's ...
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How can i make it so my scene lights illuminate the inside of this transmissive material
In the image attached, i can see the emissive materials on the inside of the glass bubble, but i want my lights to illuminate the insides so i can see the characters on the inside. I want to achieve ...
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Grazing angle translucency bug artifacts?
Hwelp wtf is this guys? It appears only at low angle and with rough translucent material
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Grease Pencil Masks - Partial Transparency
I'm attempting to recreate this mask transparency effect I did in Procreate where it's not a perfect mask, and you can still somewhat see the masked object through the mask (pictured below).
Notice ...
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Using noise as an alpha for noise (bump) texture
I am trying to figure out how to use noise node to control the visibility of another noise node that I am using for bump. (in effort to break up the bump on the surface)
I would like to use the left ...
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Greasepencil Object Visible in Unwanted Parts
I am making this illustration of a 3D card and the effect that I want in the end is that it has some depth inside, so I made this folllowing setup:
there's the box, and the different layers of ...
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Line Art not showing through transparency, but showing on transparent objects
This character head is all one object but I am having a problem when applying Grease Pencil Line Art Modifier to the head with glasses. The eyebrows and eye lashes are joined geometry cards, with ...
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How can I render animation frames transparent?
I'm trying to render a rotating logo frame by frame with a transparent background (80 frames). I've gone to Film > check transparent but it still shows up with a black background in every PNG.
I'...
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How do I create a translucid grid composition using a GreasePencil object with LineArt Modifier?
I'm completely new to Grease Pencil tool, I followed some tutorials about freestyle and grease pencil object.
I'm using a Grease Pencil object with a LineArt modifier to create some grahics. I want to ...
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Object changes its properties during manipulation
I have a problem with a object block given by the manufacturer. It was an STP file and I converted in in FBX. When I import the file, it somehow behaves strange because everytime I turn the object, it ...
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Why does my image plane's alpha keep revealing itself, depending on the camera's position in cycles?
I was in 3.4, I have a number of sprites.
To create them, I imported an image sequence (jpg) as a plane.
Then I attached another black and white image sequence (jpgs) as an alpha matte.
Up high you ...
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When I activate the shadow catcher in the plane it shows the hdri instead of showing just the shadow
When the shadow catcher is activated on the plane, it shows the envarioment instead of the other ground plane
follow new images to check it out
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using grease pencil with transparent object
I'm trying to use grease pencil on two objects, but one object is inside the other. I still want to see grease pencil on the inside object.
I have a blue cube inside a green cube. The green cube is ...
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Shader AOV while having a transparent shader assigned
I am trying to get a texture as a Shader AOV Output while having a transparent BSDF assigned to the object in Blender in EEVEE. But I'm unable to see anything in the AOV output. Is there anything I'm ...
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Transparent image shows black in viewport [duplicate]
Im not the best at blender but I've been hacking away at this issue to no avail. I have a transparent image as a texture in blender but in rendering it shows with a black background... I've researched ...
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Turn a alpha and displacement texture in a actual mesh
Hi everyone, I was wondering if there's any way for convert this texture (obviously I'm talking about the grid) that is made with alpha opacity and displacement into an actual mesh
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Most effective way to fade in/fade out objects in Cycles. Version 3.6
I have seen a couple of similar posts, but one dated back to 2018 and the next was 2017.
I am on version 3.6 and I was wondering what the most effective way is to fade in and/or fade out an object in ...
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Blender object alpha channel question
When you are rendering to render layers how do I get blender to keep alpha data from objects in going into the compositor? It doesn't seem to bring in object alpha data.
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How do I keep the solid objects visible when viewed through transparent objects?
Transparency works for the background but solid objects disappear behind the transparent object.
I'm new to this and watched a load of tutorials but I don't see what I'm missing.
This is my issue here:...
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I am unable to get rid of some persisting shadows when the object is transparent. What am I missing?
I'm attempting to animate the Alpha value of a basic material using the Principle BSFD surface. However, I've noticed some strange shadows persisting, and I'm unsure how to eliminate them. The Blend ...
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Alpha - Image Texture problem
Hello, I am designing low quality alpha hair for a character I created, and when I use image texture on the meshes I made in blender, I encounter such an image. The texture does not appear as it ...
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Shape Burst Gradient / 2D SDF in Shader Editor
I've been looking to create a 2D SDF effect in Blender's Shader Editor, but trying to research this only shows 3D SDF content which makes it difficult to find answers. Photoshop can create the desired ...
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Importing a texture that appears to have alpha but Blender's image preview shows detail. How can I import this image with the details?
I downloaded some files from PokeMiners regarding their ripped 3D models from Pokemon GO. But when I downloaded Bulbasaur, I discovered that the eye image only included the sclera, pupils, and irises.
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Unable to get alpha channel to be transparent without destroying the background texture
I've got a simple model of a knob with a wood texture. I'd like to be able to overlay some simple text on it using a png file created with gimp.
I bring in the file in the UV editor, and map it to ...
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Getting water out of the canoe!
I have a canoe(s) in my scene. The water is represented by a low poly plane. Of course when the canoe is in the water the plane cuts into the interior of the canoe. How can I organise to have it where ...
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How can I draw on procedural textures?
I try to combine procedural textures with an Image Texture via a mix node, so I can draw on my model.
But I can not find a way, so my procedural texture does not change in its brightness or contrast.
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Flat texture and transparency
Hello, how may I make the black parts transparent but keep the texture flat at the same time ?
On the second picture,I used Principal BSDF it makes the black parts transparent but the texture looses ...
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transparent renders having very dark undertones
I don't know how to describe it but my transparent renders always come out having dark edges despite bumping the lights to the maximum I can without loosing details in my object.no matter what I do it ...
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Transparent Glass looking grey when exported
Hello everyone I was following a tutorial online on how to make a cup and light it. I've been using blender for a while and I always have this issue of the the output of the render not being fully ...
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Export FBX : Material Blend and Shadow mode won't remain as 'Alpha Clip' [duplicate]
I'm trying to export my project as an FBX.
However, when I export and then import the file, the "Blend Mode" and "Shadow Mode" option for the material is set to 'Opaque'.
I want ...
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How can I independently adjust alpha clip with duplicate textures?
I have an imported object with 2 .png textures. Under material>settings I can adjust the clip threshold and one texture will gradually appear over the other. If I duplicate the object, I cannot do ...
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Eevee occluder material
Is it possible to create an occluder material in Eevee? i.e. have a material that only writes to the depth buffer, so the object will occlude objects behind it without rendering a visible color.
Like ...
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How do you lower the memory when rendering an image?
I want to render this 3D tree branch model into a transparent 2D PNG image. This way I can reuse it on other projects like a tree I'm making but I don't want it taking too much memory on my blender ...
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How do I apply multiple transparent leaf branch images to main branch model more naturally?
The branch model has transparent images of a 3D leafy branch that I modeled after a white pine tree branch which I rendered into an image then duplicated, and it feels to, organized that and all the ...
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Shadows on transparent background not appearing with shadow catcher
I am rendering a png image with a plane transparent background being used a shadow catcher. However, the shadows are not appearing in the png. I have made sure that the shadow catcher is turned on in ...
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Alpha brush creates indent when applying over another alpha brush stroke
i am trying to apply alpha brush to my sculpt and when i apply an alpha brush stroke over another it creates an indent around the previous stroke and warps the mesh. this is only a new problem as i ...
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How to eliminate the white blurry edges from this PNG image using this node set
I have this node setup, with a PNG image which has a blur applied to it. I saw the node setup in this tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgQyd49hj8 (13:17sec), the nodes are seen.
When I put ...
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How do I make this texture visible as a PNG?
I'm trying to export this model's textures from Blender, and I can do all of them fine except for the Eye texture. When I export it, it is just a blank PNG. I don't know how to make it visible in the ...
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How to apply Alpha to a collection with all the objects within the collection
I have multiple objects with various textures and materials, in different collections. Is it possible to apply an Alpha to the collection itself with the objects inside it? So I can control how much ...
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