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Subject: PNG export no shadows?

saibabameuk opened this issue on May 26, 2018 ยท 9 posts


saibabameuk posted Sat, 26 May 2018 at 3:24 AM

Hi Guys the old grey cell not working exporting to Final cut PNG but my figure is not showing a shadow on the ground, I know you have helped before but cannot find the thread. Poser-24:05:18-1.0197.png


saibabameuk posted Sat, 26 May 2018 at 3:49 AM

Poser-24:05:18-1.0014.png


saibabameuk posted Sat, 26 May 2018 at 3:50 AM

Sorted


saibabameuk posted Sat, 26 May 2018 at 4:26 AM

One small point you see the line around the figure any thoughts about removing it ?


RedPhantom posted Sat, 26 May 2018 at 6:18 AM Site Admin

Open it in your 2d editor. Use your selection tool to select the figure. Shrink it down by one or 2 pixels. Reverse the selection and erase the edge. If your program has the option, you might also want to anti-alias the selection too.

The outline is caused by part of your background color showing through the anti-aliased edges of the rendered figure. Poser doesn't seem to like making partial transparencies. It adds the background to solidify them.


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saibabameuk posted Sun, 27 May 2018 at 5:07 AM

Thank you Red Phantom Good tip.


SamTherapy posted Sun, 27 May 2018 at 6:15 AM

The advice from BagginsBill to get rid of the grey lines around a PNG render:

Caveat - this advice is for Firefly and I have no idea if it works in Superfly.

Set render settings to Render Over: Black. Not set your background to black then render over that; specifically use the setting Render Over: Black.

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seachnasaigh posted Mon, 28 May 2018 at 4:52 PM

For Superfly, one option is to apply the Cycles holdout node to the entire construct (ground and sky), that gives you a Superfly render of the dolly on a transparent background: Sylfie Superfly raster.png construct material:

holdout node in menu.png

holdout background material for raster.PNG

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RedPhantom posted Mon, 28 May 2018 at 7:00 PM Site Admin

Thanks for showing where the node can be found. Sometimes it's like a mystery hunt for them


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