Dielectric coloring, white transparent, pngs, alpha channels,.... oh my
Desperately seeking assistance with materials setup and applications. Here's my problem: I have created a two 3d vials. They are in the supplied image below: The labels on these vials are actual polygons. I need to change them to bitmapped images for animation purposes and file size.
The clear vial and label are quite easy to produce. I simply select the glass preset material and add an image node. The image I chose is blue lettering on a transparent background saved as a transparent png from illustrator CS5.5. Perfect. The render and file size are exactly what I want.
But when I try to color the glass in the brown vial version and add white lettering on a transparent background it just doesn't work. I have tried every possible node combination I can think of. It's not even worth going into my failed attempts and what they've produced.
To summarize:
How do I colorize the dielectric node and then add a transparent png with white lettering to the same material? No matter what I do, it treats the white label png as an alpha channel.
When exporting transparent pngs what are the correct photoshop settings? When I export pngs with transparent background from Photoshop, Cheetah 3d seems to treat the transparency as black. However, when I export transparent pngs from Adobe Illustrator, Cheetah 3D seems to treat the transparent background transparent.
Desperately seeking assistance with materials setup and applications. Here's my problem: I have created a two 3d vials. They are in the supplied image below: The labels on these vials are actual polygons. I need to change them to bitmapped images for animation purposes and file size.
The clear vial and label are quite easy to produce. I simply select the glass preset material and add an image node. The image I chose is blue lettering on a transparent background saved as a transparent png from illustrator CS5.5. Perfect. The render and file size are exactly what I want.
But when I try to color the glass in the brown vial version and add white lettering on a transparent background it just doesn't work. I have tried every possible node combination I can think of. It's not even worth going into my failed attempts and what they've produced.
To summarize:
How do I colorize the dielectric node and then add a transparent png with white lettering to the same material? No matter what I do, it treats the white label png as an alpha channel.
When exporting transparent pngs what are the correct photoshop settings? When I export pngs with transparent background from Photoshop, Cheetah 3d seems to treat the transparency as black. However, when I export transparent pngs from Adobe Illustrator, Cheetah 3D seems to treat the transparent background transparent.