Tree billboard problem

Maximum-Dev

Hello,

When I render to texture in Max to create a billboard texture I have the problem that the masked parts of the material render black instead of showing what was behind it. In this case you can see the tree bark can't be seen behind the leaves through the masked areas.




What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!

doolally66

If I'm not mistaken you'd need to add something to the opacity channel to say where you want see through. In this case you could just turn your rendered texture into a B&W version and use that

gnoop

doolally66 said:

If I'm not mistaken you'd need to add something to the opacity channel to say where you want see through. In this case you could just turn your rendered texture into a B&W version and use that

That wouldn't work  actually.   Overlapping polys would still be wrong,  show no transparency.      At least from what I tried  in Max  couple years ago.    Doubt something have changed.

Wonder what baker could do it right?

  

Eric Chadwick

gnoop said:
Wonder what baker could do it right?

None of them.

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Texture_Baking#Transparency

gnoop

Bet we wouldn't see it in Max/Maya till somebody ones do it for Cycles baking in Blender.   I asked Autodesk for the feature decades ago, then just gave up.

Maximum-Dev

Thanks for the replies.