I have a photograph of a bowl with a transparent backgroung, when I import the photo into Bryce the transparent background becomes white! What could it be??

 

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i did a search..found this..maybe this could help...

1. If you're using the photo as a transparency map, remember to copy and paste the image into the second of the three windows in the image editor.  The second window is what makes an image act as a transparency map.

2.  In the material editor, go to the little triangle at the tip and choose Blend Transparency

3.  In the material editor, remember to put a dot in the column that corresponds to the image.   For instance, if you have your photo/transparency map in the second space, put the dot in the second column.

Bryce seems to know what to do with portable network graphic files (.PNG). Resaving the image in that format is probably the fastest fix.

If you use the image in the second window and bryce doesn't recognize the alpha channel you could get a ghost image instead of solid. That's because Bryce is using luminance instead of the alpha to determine transparency. I used to make a color and a seperate black and white mask for everything. Now I stick with PNGs because it's just one image to track.

I am at a lost here, I have a photo with a alpha channel that loads perfeclty, the other one loads as the photo with a white background. Both have a transparent background and were done in Corel Knockout. I t is intended as a phot inisde Bryce not as a material driven photo. I will continue researching.

I'm not understanding what you have and what you're trying to do.

*"One photo loads with a white background.  Both have a transparent background." *

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Could you post screen shots of how they render and also how they look in the image and material editors?

I was trying to input a photograph with an alpha channel into Bryce. Not for texturing purposes but as an element. It is ceramic vase. I FIGURE IT THOUGH!! Bryce does not recognizes alpha channels saved as TIFF file. The photos that load with alpha channel are PSD. file or PNG files. Tiff files render as the photo with a white background instead of the photo with an alpha channel.

Here is what I have been doing.

 

I was trying to input a photograph with an alpha channel into Bryce. Not for texturing purposes but as an element. It is ceramic vase. I FIGURE IT THOUGH!! Bryce does not recognizes alpha channels saved as TIFF file. The photos that load with alpha channel are PSD. file or PNG files. Tiff files render as the photo with a white background instead of the photo with an alpha channel.

Here is a small file of what I have been doing.