Forum: Vue


Subject: Using Xfrog plants in Vue

spedler opened this issue on Jan 17, 2006 ยท 11 posts


spedler posted Tue, 17 January 2006 at 4:39 PM

I have just bought the Xfrog prehistoric plants DVD. They are great plants, and are in .vob format among others. The problem I'm having is that some of the plants use transmapped leaves with premultiplied alphas (i.e. the .tif file is on a transparent background rather than having a separate alpha channel). Vue doesn't seem to like these at all, rendering the leaves with black edges where the object should be transparent.

So, am I missing something obvious to prevent this? A solution I found is to set global transparency to 100% then use the leaf texture as a transmap, but this requires some manipulation in the function editor. Is there an easier way?

Steve