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DAZ Studio 4.6 Backgrounds Missing!!!

WhiteFoxWhiteFox Posts: 92
edited October 2014 in Daz Studio Discussion

I just rendered in DS 4.6 and went to post my render but the background color was missing!! I then opened the pic with Gimp and quickly discovered the background was a transparency:ohh:!?! Has Daz done something like an update that removes the background color? Is anyone else having this issue or is it just me? :long:

Post edited by Chohole on

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,308
    edited December 1969

    .png and .tiff store the alpha channel in renders - in most image editors/viewers you can choose to treat that as transparency or simply to load it as a mask but have the background showing.

  • WhiteFoxWhiteFox Posts: 92
    edited December 1969

    I understand this, but it has never done that before today. This is completely new so that's why I was wondering if there was an update I had missed or something. Also, when I go to the render editor I can see the background color/backdrop I used in the render. It kinda freaked me out at first lol. I really don't mind it, just going to take a bit to get used to :-)

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,598
    edited December 1969

    Had you previously been saving as .jpg or .bmp?

  • WhiteFoxWhiteFox Posts: 92
    edited December 1969

    Nope, all my saves have been in .png format since i started using DS back in March. It's actually kinda cool because I can pretty much just overlay my renders onto another background or scene with ease :)

  • Cris PalominoCris Palomino Posts: 11,610
    edited December 1969

    PNG has always given me a transparent background which was great so I could just put the image over any background easily in an image editor. I am not entirely sure how you did not have transparency on your images if saved in PNG format.

  • Scott LivingstonScott Livingston Posts: 4,344
    edited October 2014

    As I recall, if you render using the OpenGL renderer instead of 3Delight, then the background will show even if you save as a .png. This would have happened if you set the quality slider in the Render Settings pane to anything less than 4.

    (Not that I'm recommending you do this...for most uses, 3Delight is a superior render engine)

    Post edited by Scott Livingston on
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