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Old 04-29-2005, 02:30 PM
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Rhino/Flamingo rendering help !

I use Rhino/Flamingo for boat designing.
Is there any way to make a total transparent background when rendering ?
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Old 04-29-2005, 05:19 PM
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The big question here is - what's on the other side of a transparent background?
You could try just having a background image...
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Old 05-01-2005, 04:05 AM
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Rhino/Flamigo rendering help.

I use to copy the rendered images into Photoshop. Then i do not want any background at all. Now i have the problem that a squared "solid" background follows the image and covers other images on the same "sheet".

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Old 05-02-2005, 12:24 PM
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With a solid background you should be able to select it with the magic wand tool in photoshop and make it transparent there.
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Old 05-02-2005, 06:14 PM
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Go into Flamingo "environment" settings dialogue box.
put a tick in the "alpha channel" box.
now once you have rendered the image you can select he background in photoshop using the alpha channel.

look under flamingo and/or photoshop help for more info on exactly how to do it. (its well worth the five minutes it takes to learn about using alpha channel).

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Old 05-10-2005, 08:27 AM
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make sure to save the rendering as a tiff, though, to use the alpha channel.
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Old 05-10-2005, 02:25 PM
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