I have that feeling that something is right before my eyes but I can't see it. I've been hunting around trying to figure out how to make the background of a scene render transparent when I found this thread and thought I would tag onto it.

According to what I read here and elsewhere I understand in order to have a transparent background I need to use an image format that is capable of displaying the alpha channel.

With that information I started with a brand new blank scene. I placed a sphere on the scene and applied a simple texture. I made no other changes or adjustments until I got to the render room.

In the render room I first set the file format to TIFF, which displays the alpha check boxes. I checked both the "Render Alpha Channel" and the "Use Premultiplied Alpha" check boxes. Rendered the single frame and got a sphere with a solid black background.

I attempted the same settings with the file format set to GIF with the same results. I also tried unchecking "Use Premultiplied Alpha", still with the same results.

I am at a loss as to what it is that I might be missing. Can someone please point me in the right direction. thanks

Vampires