Forum: Carrara


Subject: animate transparent background

pogmahone opened this issue on Nov 18, 2003 ยท 7 posts


bluetone posted Tue, 18 November 2003 at 7:21 PM

Yes vectorstyle will allow you to export to Flash. However, I have found that the files end up being pretty big sometimes. The SWF that Vectorstyle creates is a string of seperate frames with each one being a different picture in vector format. In other words, the advantage of vector animations, a description of an object that gets changed for each frame, is lost as each frame becomes seperate objects. (If you add a bunch of objects, instead of one object that then has a description of the changes, your file becomes BIG!) TIFF is only a static image format, but it does support alpha channels. It's what I use when I output animations: Output to sequential TIFs. Set your model in the scene without anything around it and select the mask option. Drop your files into your video editing timeline, and chose the option for alpha channels. This should allow the black background that was created in Carrera to disappear. If it doesn't, try a different alpha channel option. (Different programs use the alpha channel differently.) Render out your video. Hope this helps! :>