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Photo Renderings don't save an alpha channel

fuzzytnth3
Booster
Am I right in saying that when you generate a photo rendering in AC 9 that there isn't an option to save the background as an aplha channel?

This is something Strata 3d CX does which saves a bit of time when montaging into a site photo and I suspect I'm trying to endow AC 9 with abilities it doesn't have as a result of using Strata quite a bit

tia
AC versions 3.41 to 25 (UKI Full 5005).
Using AC25 5005 UKI FULL
Mac OSX 10.15.7 (19G2021) Mac Pro-2013 32gbRam AMD FirePro D500 3072 MB graphics
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
fuzzytnth3 wrote:
Am I right in saying that when you generate a photo rendering in AC 9 that there isn't an option to save the background as an aplha channel?
Hmm. I think you may have come across a bug.

There is a check mark for both the Internal and LW engines to use alpha channel for transparency for the background image.

But: with the internal engine in 9.0, if I check this box, then my model is not rendered ... I only get the background (and no alpha).

With LW, and this box checked, the result is the same as if the box is unchecked.

Anyone?

Karl
One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Dwight
Newcomer
I notice this, too.
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
Not applicable
Same with AC 8.1.
Try AC 6.5 - it worked then...
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