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PNG Support added to Build 1118, October 19, 2014
ianross:
Thank you Steve, this is fantastic for cut out animation, it makes alpha mapping easier and pngs produce better quality renders.
I wonder if it is possible to load a sequence of png files on to flat plane and have it play as movie, somebody would have to write a script for this?
This was possible with bmp files, Kreator created a video on this years ago. Kevin please can you post a link to this, it just may inspire somebody.
ronaldefarmer:
Steve:
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Transparency for lights is a great idea but it's not that easy. I've wanted to support that for a long time. Adding it to the ART ray-tracer is the most straightforward, and then probably the scanline renderer but only for ray-traced shadows. OpenGL is considerably more difficult.
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Ray-traced shadows in scanline would be most useful to me; most of my rendering is scanline.
--- Quote from: Steve on October 21, 2014, 12:17:34 am ---
Your example works in the viewer for me, alpha and all, but I can't tell if the alpha falls off smoothly at the edges or abruptly. (And thanks for the compliment :-)
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Alpha does not seem to fall off smoothly in the viewer, also back side of the material is not visible but I might have some settings wrong for the material. The compliment is well deserved.
Steve:
I've fixed the inverted png textures. All png images are read in inverted, including reference images and backgrounds, so all I needed to do was flip 'em after they are read :-)
johnar:
--- Quote ---I wonder if it is possible to load a sequence of png files on to flat plane and have it play as movie,
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That was one of the really cool features in 'Terranim8or'.
The option for this in anim8or would definately be a cool addition, but in the meantime, terranim8or still does an excellent job of doing exactly that. Then saves to .an8, making an an8 file with ímaged planes loaded in order in scene mode and ready to go. Was/is handy for a lot of things. Ie: using as guide for scene animation, and making 'moving backgrounds'
Edit: Not sure about .png files in terranim8or. Must check that out
kreator:
Johnar: I think that was what IanRoz was referring to.
I don`t think that Leslie enabled .png files to be loaded, have checked only jpg, bmp or gif supported.
With Leslies site now gone, I don`t imagine it will be upgraded either
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