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Okay, so this isn't really dim3, but its wings so...
I'm using wings to render some of the stuff in a comic I'm making. So I have a character in a file, and I need to get it onto another already rendered background. The way I had been doing it, was to get the render, line it up on a top layer of the image and arduously erase away the white surrounding (I'm using a combo of seashore and gimp).
Recently I discovered wings can render (I'm only using the built in openGL rendering) with an alpha channel. So yay! The only problem is that its stuck in the program. If I try to export it or make external, I can only make it a .bmp, which doesn't support the alpha channel. So any tips on how to fix this?

Gordon CSA Wrote:Okay, so this isn't really dim3, but its wings so...
I'm using wings to render some of the stuff in a comic I'm making. So I have a character in a file, and I need to get it onto another already rendered background. The way I had been doing it, was to get the render, line it up on a top layer of the image and arduously erase away the white surrounding (I'm using a combo of seashore and gimp).
Recently I discovered wings can render (I'm only using the built in openGL rendering) with an alpha channel. So yay! The only problem is that its stuck in the program. If I try to export it or make external, I can only make it a .bmp, which doesn't support the alpha channel. So any tips on how to fix this?

In wings go File->Render-> and then click the black box next to the OpenGL option. This will bring up a window with options in it. Make sure 'render alpha channel' is selected.

At the bottom of the window, there is a 'render output' container. Tell it to output the render to a file (it uses a .tga). The tga has an alpha channel in it. Click OK and wings will render the image and save it.

hope that helps

Ha! Yeah I had it rendering the alpha channel, but I hadn't noticed the render output part. Thanks!...
Hey... Targa can only be opened in gimp, and alpha doesn't export from targa to .png. Dang. Only problem is I put together the scenes in seashore, since Gimp runs too slow on my computer to do that. Oh well.

Edit: But Alpha does stay if I just copy it from gimp into seashore.

Why not :P. Do file export then png, I export from tga to png all the time .
Just make sure you change the export settings (they pop up annoyingly when you export).
If that doesn't work just save as .xcf then export to .png, but I'm sure you don't have to.