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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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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Importing obj causing texture transparency issue [duplicate]

When importing these obj files and giving them their textures, they show this weird transparency issue, cant figure out why.
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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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Blender Export Confusings Transparency [duplicate]

I'm facing an issue where I'm trying to create a "holo-projector" that shines light from the bottom up (pictures to follow). However, when exporting, the transparency of the model doesn't ...
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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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(with fspy)Why does the transparent plane show system checkerboard pattern after rendering

I used an empty transparent plane for shadows of the objects, but somehow the default checkerboard pattern is shown both in view port and in the pre-render view after I pressed F12. I used two cameras ...
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Decals shrinkwrap bake black for alpha?

yo guys i have a problem , i used some decals and shrinkwrap on a object , join all of them and baked to low poly object , but the alpha is baking black , can you guys help me , and sorry for my bad ...
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Turning opacity down on a layer in grease pencil not working

I want to make a layer in grease pencil semi-transparent, but when I turn the opacity down, the layer still leaves a mask that covers objects behind it. If anyone has an idea on what I'm doing wrong ...
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Why doesn't my liquid material show through my transparent plastic material in cycles?

I am trying to make a pipette that has a plastic transparent tip with a red transparent liquid inside. However, when I render in cycles, the material inside the tip does not show, although I can see ...
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How to make an object in the animation influencing visibility of another object

This is my first post and I was searching for my answer on the forum but could not come up with a solution. I have an animation where I show how the biopsy probe penetrates the brain to reach a tumor ...
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Why does bloom not work over a transparent background?

I'm using the Eevee engine and the fireworks are emissive particles, bloom is turned on. I tried both eevee and cycles, I want to use eevee though. I tried PNG with RGBA color, 8bit and 16bit color, ...
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Surface > Background > As Color using environment texture doesn't display when rendering on EEVEE

Surface > Background > As Color using environment texture doesn't display when rendering on EEVEE. The transparency is there, the screens pace reflections activated, alpha blend mode and so on, ...
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Why isn’t my water simulation transparent? [duplicate]

I tried to do a product commercial, where the product falls into water and followed a tutorial. I think I did every step right. I even used the same HDRI. So does someone have an idea why my water ...
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Alpha Bug in the Compositor

I have a problem in the compositor. The alpha looks kinda glitched. The only way to solve it was to convert the file to TIFF. Is this a knewn Bug in this Blender Version (3.6.1)? When i open it in ...
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Challenges with Exporting DAE in Blender: Missing Alpha Transparency and Mask Image

Hello Blender Community, I've been facing a challenge with exporting FBX files to DAE format in Blender. Here's the situation: Initial Import: When I import an FBX file into Blender, everything ...
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Why do I have objects rendering transparent after use Cell Fracture addon

Who can help with the problem? Blender 3.1 when I use the cell Fracture addon I want to make a destruction effect. After I play the scene - I go into render - the object becomes transparent, although ...
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Plane image with alpha - clipping

So i have this scene where i have a plane with some smoke on it (image sequence with alpha). Im happy with it but when the plane hits some geometry its some kind of clipping. Is there a way so i can ...
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How do I get my water to be transparent? [duplicate]

I have turned up the transmission on my material settings and checked the subsurface translucency, but it's showing up shiny, not transparent. Why is that? Could someone help? I am in Cycles by the ...
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How to export fbx with alpha texture? [duplicate]

My water bottle with alpha channel barcode but when I export it fbx, there has only plain surface on my water bottle. What setting do I need to export?
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Baking issues causing image textures to lose transparency

I am currently writing the code for an add-on that would merge and bake certain objects on a mesh and then reapply these new baked textures onto the original mesh with the goal of everything looking ...
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Sun Mesh with Corona - Alpha Transparency Affects Appearance [duplicate]

I have a Blender scene with a Sun mesh and a Corona mesh around it. The Sun mesh looks as intended when I render the image with no alpha (black background). However, when I try to render a transparent ...
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How to make HDRI invisible but keep other background nodes visible?

I created a starry sky with a noise texture and used an HDRI for lighting. If I activate transparency in film, I also hide the my noise texture. How do I hide only the HDRI texture?
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Making an infinite box without compositor and without cycles?

I'm trying to do something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbgrcX8i588&list=PLSh-b4qMjucsIsfsV2ItRFpAUSkgb0WKa&index=20&t=74s The only differences are that I need to have objects ...
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Visible HDRI with turned on transparency

Why Blender keep saving my image with visible HDRI? I really don't need it visible. Everything goes fine until its done. How I can fix it? EDIT: Found solution. I had to uncheck camera in ray ...
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Alpha threshold for object index layer

[EDITED] Using cycle mode, I am trying to get a mask image of the rendered object which object index layer. But when compared with the "composite" layer, "object index" layer does ...
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How to get rid of this gray line when joining head and body meshes?

I downloaded the Facebuilder plugin and I tried to join the mesh with a body I had already. I removed the faces of the head and bridged the missing particles with my facebuilder head instead, but ...
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1 Material 1 Texture from Blender to Unity

So i have a model that has Transparent Eyelashes. I created an Atlas for all textures(Body,eyelashes, eyes etc) So Atlas image is png Transparent. The principle i use is 1 Material 1 Texture for every ...
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Compositing 1 light through an object?

In this scene, I want Ball 1 to be hit by both lights A+B, but light B to pass through Ball 2 (not casting a shadow on Ball 1) Ball 2, I want to be hit by light A, but not light B So how do I make ...
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SOLVED: Alpha channel not rendering properly

UPDATE: This is solved! Check the comments for the solution. What I see in my render view is not what I am getting on my exported image. Attached are three screenshots: This is what I see in my ...
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Transmission is not working [duplicate]

I tried to make a glass following youtube tutorial. In that video, if you raise the transmission value to close to 1, it becomes transparent, but I can't. I know. It's really simple! But I don't know ...
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Transparent patterns in shading

Hey guys trying to bake a transparent texture via Shading to a 3d model - .obj with a UV map - I have - black stripes with transparent background .png - but it's causing some trouble. It seems to add ...
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Emissive object still visible when alpha is set at 0

I have made an animated exhaust flame for my project, using a displace modifier on a cylinder and a gradient texture, color ramp, emission & transparent bsdf connected in the shader nodes. Im ...
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Saving Rendered images with Semitransparent alpha

Recently Blender started messing up my normals after saving them. The semi transparent glow is now clipped away and I'm only left with a steaming pile of doggy doo. This happens regardless if I'm ...
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How can I make an object transparent in material preview mode for viewport shading?

I am using a material as reference for my modeling. Im therefor using 'material preview' mode as viewport shading. Is there a way to make the model transparent so i can see the reference behind it? Or ...
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Transition to 3.5 to 3.6 - Geometry Nodes does not render alpha channel mesh properly

Mesh on the right displays alpha channel correctly in both versions. Mesh on the left is a geometry node that uses the "Object Info" node to display that mesh. As you can see you get ...
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Transparent PNG image texture (logo) over BMD texture? a simple version attempt needing help [duplicate]

I have been trying this for 5 years failing, and although I've tried tons of different tutorials, I still seem to fail at something that should be quite simple. I have a BMD pbr beautiful material. I ...
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Image texture with an alpha channel does not get packed

When I pack my blender project I have a texture that uses an image texture (video) as the base colour (with an alpha channel, making the background of it transparent) and when I pack it, that specific ...
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plane with transparent image Texture does not get 100% transparent in shadows near object

I want to put a logo on a Beer stand. When Adding the image to the scene (using the "images as planes" import) everything looks good. When placing the plane on the stand, the plane that has ...
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Render a scene with reflections on a completely transparent background

I am trying to render a scene with reflections on a completely transparent background, but the rendered results are not transparent. The setup: White Pills on a reflective surface. The reflective ...
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transparent video background not working [duplicate]

I'm trying to render video with transparent background, I do everything right I guess and after I render it and I'm trying to open with Windows Media Player, it says "We couldn't open .mov file&...
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Alpha, Transparency, Blender, Sony Vegas, Workflow, & solutions

I rendered a video in blender as ffmpeg qt mov. File w xlpha transparency. To make the video file size more manageable, I went with another render of the same file; in Sony Vegas. So I added the file, ...
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transparent issue outline of the object is still showing up

I'm trying to have a smooth transparent fade but the outline of the object is still showing up.
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