Transparent Black Texture

Littlenorwegians

Hello.

I'm having some odd problems. Because Marmoset makes black = transparent I am having a hard time making a slightly transparent black texture.



Essentially just want a 50% transparent gradient black shadow on the ground.
But I cannot find (Or maybe I don't understand) the right way of doing this.

Thanks.

Drew++

This is the best I could get it straight from the viewport. Dithering method is noisy. However, the larger the image is rendered out, the finer the noise will be.

Joost

You can change the transparency mode to dither. This looks quite grainy in realtime but it's better when you render out an image.

edit: Drew beat me to it lol

Littlenorwegians

Thanks, guys. I know I might be in a minority, since this is like oldschool retro low poly and all. But the dithering effect doesn't really look good or authentic for the intended effect.

I am rendering up a large amount of images (for GIF purposes) so having a transparent image is the desired solution.

EarthQuake

Currently, traditional alpha blending is not supported, so the dithered method is going to be your best bet. As others have suggested, rendering at a higher resolution (like 3840x2160) and then sizing down tends to reduce the noise quite a bit.

Alternatively, you could try matching the background color of the floor plane to the sky background color, as long as you turn off lighting (set diffusion to unlit and set specular and fresnel to 0) that will probably work without transparency.

Littlenorwegians

Thanks, EarthQuake. Again, I might be the minority on this matter, but it'd be cool to have traditional alpha blending in there.

I'll attempt some kinda work around for now. Love the software for hi and low alike.