Transparency on 3D View

[shadowfork]

Hello, how can I make these planes completely transparent in 3D view?
It's not going to be rendered, rather going to be exported as FBX in Unity.
I turned on "Use alpha channel" but still can't get them to be transparent.

The source image file is a transparent PNG file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[frank beckmann]

Unfortunately this seems no longer possible in the current Metal version as it was before in 7.5.3:

 

[ZooHead]

Here's a test on Cheetah 8.0b5, used a TIFF with alpha.
Looks like it isn't transparent to the Grid, but it is to other objects.

 

[frank beckmann]

Now stack a few in a row overlapping.

 

[ZooHead]

Works the same with PNGs.

It seems the order in the Cheetah Browser list makes a difference.

 

[ZooHead]

Bottom on the list out front.

 

[ZooHead]

I moved the bottom on the list backwards here.

 

[frank beckmann]

Could be my machine. Putting everything at same z-position gives the known z-depth issue:

Transparency is the last drawn feature, so only the last in the list should work if I recall it right.

 

[ZooHead]

I sent a link to Martin so he could check it out.

 

[frank beckmann]

 

[ZooHead]

Looks like we've all been demoted.

Anyone else seeing this. We are all zeros

 

[ZooHead]

The Array Modifier stacks correctly.

 

[frank beckmann]

Yes - Martin respectively the company that developed this forum software runs an update yesterday. Could be stats will be updated later. Member status seems gone right now but not on old threads methinks.

 

[frank beckmann]

The Array Modifier stacks correctly.

Just partially:

 

[Helmut]

As far as I know, this is possible, but I can not whip up an instant method how to achieve that.

* Having had the identical problem in a recent project, I expended some time experimenting. Unfortunately, I made no notes and can´t supply a procedure for a solution.

* From memory:
* some tweaking of the image is required pre-processing; probably Remove BG in PreView but I may have used a different application for this
* a slight offset between the panels holding the images may be useful
* in the node manager, link the val for BG black to transparency

* The result / attachement shows three figures of a painting by Velazquez, "Las Meninas, all of which are separate images on 3 planes. Whilst the panels (the court dwarf,Mari Bimbola, the painter, DV, and the Infanta, MT) overlap , they do not obstruct visibility in the 3D view panel of the C3D editor.

* Of course, in my project the rendering / animation was relevant. No idea about an .fbx export.

 

[misoversaturated]

The Array Modifier stacks correctly.

Good catch.
Render also doesn't work with material shader, PBR works though.

 

[shadowfork]

Bottom on the list out front.

I don't think it's necessarily like that. My sword is at the bottom of the stack but when I move it around, you'll see the shield and head stack correctly, but moving the sword clips weirdly between them... also the legs are clipped from the body here (if you compare from my initial post).

 

[shadowfork]

Here's the project files if you guys would like to check it out.
I'm running it on a 2019 Intel Mac, with Cheetah ver 8.0b6

 

[shadowfork]

Bottom on the list out front.

I take it back. You sir, are absolutely correct!
My shield was on the same Z position as the sword.
Adjusting that and properly stacking the legs yields some good results now.

Only issue remains is the grid/background clipping.
It's just visually annoying but I think it could be workable.

I would love to keep using Cheetah 3D instead of getting Spine Pro ($329) separately.

 

[frank beckmann]

If it isn't too much trouble or too many downsides along the road you can try Cheetah3D7.5.3 instead.