Transparent background

[valahian1]

Is anybody who knows how can I render an animation with a transparent background in DS Max? Or let me know about a tutorial to do this. Thanks!!!

[shashanks18]

Transparent Background....quite dnt understand dat. Cn ye plz gv n example ov Transparent Background.....i mayb able to help.

btw, if ye want some object to be transparent...or precisely, low opacity, den select the object n press ALT X. it turns less opaque :)

Cheers!

[valahian1]

Thanks Shashanks, but not transparent objects I want. When you render a scene, the bg is black, or another color. So that I whant to be transparent for using that movie with a transparent bg as a layer in another program to do a composition with other movies. I found a way to do this, but frame by frame, and it is a lot of work.

[shashanks18]

aah, ye mean dat ye dnt want the black BG to appear in the movie.....

well do 1 thing, render the sequence as a Targa Sequence wid 32bit Pre-mult Alpha. Wen you're about to import the sequence in the compositing sftwr, thr wud b n option on importing file as a Targa Sequence. Select this and select any 1 ov the targa files renderd. You'll see dat the whole sequence appears in the form on a single file or a layer. Thats it, the BG will appear only until ye add another things into the composition, aftr which ye start seeing no Black unwantd Bg :)

hope tis works fr ye.....any queries, plz ask :)

[valahian1]

IT WORKS !!! Thanks a lot! I did the same with tif format, but I was wrong with settings, and the program (After Effects) didn't take the images as sequence,but a lot of layers, one over the other, and my mind was blow up.
Thanks again !!!

[shashanks18]

heey, glad to knw it workd fr ye pal :)

After Effects too takes sequences. The option wud've left turned off, so many layers wud've formed :)

Cheers!!!