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Title: Alpha and Transparency
Post by: Member2766 on May 16, 2011, 05:15:55 pm
Has anyone posted yet about using transparency and alpha maps to create see through materials?
I have some metal mesh and patterned frit material that works great in sketchup, but all the clear alpha areas show up as white in Lumion.

What is the work around for this type of material?

Thanks
Title: Re: Alpha and Transparency
Post by: Member1388 on May 16, 2011, 05:20:10 pm
Can you upload the material here, will try to get it to work in a model?  Have not had an issue, but could just be the way the image file is saved.
Title: Re: Alpha and Transparency
Post by: Member1171 on May 16, 2011, 05:29:18 pm
Interesting as I have not experienced this - my railing has no white parts however now as I tested, there is some faint tinting between the rails here (only visible when the white wall is behind)
Title: Re: Alpha and Transparency
Post by: Member1388 on May 16, 2011, 05:49:27 pm
The tint behind is the SSAO, if you reduce the SSAO effect you will see the shaded area reduce.
Title: Re: Alpha and Transparency
Post by: Member2766 on May 16, 2011, 05:52:39 pm
Thanks - it's a png file with cut outs.
Title: Re: Alpha and Transparency
Post by: Member1327 on May 16, 2011, 05:58:23 pm
Perhaps this helps:
http://lumion3d.com/forum/index.php?topic=949.0 (http://lumion3d.com/forum/index.php?topic=949.0)
Title: Re: Alpha and Transparency
Post by: Member1388 on May 16, 2011, 06:06:33 pm
Here is a quick shot,  just slide the "Reflection or Clip"  entirely to the right using the standard material selection.  Turn the brightness down to eliminate the white outline, and reflection to brighten it back up, shazam!  Now i realize i have a little white still around, but i did not play around with the texture settings at all in Lumion...just a little reflection which probably blew it out a little bit.  Hope this helps.

Title: Re: Alpha and Transparency
Post by: Member1327 on May 16, 2011, 06:10:19 pm
I think, thats it, Brian!  8)
Title: Re: Alpha and Transparency
Post by: Member2766 on May 16, 2011, 06:16:36 pm
Thanks again Brian, will try it out later once I finish modeling the latest version.