Creating an Alpha in an image in Photoshop for Maya

[vaidisuh]

you really dont mention hardly anything about the actual import into maya. i can follow up to that part but then god damnit

[Nantchev]

Very nice, just needed specific parts to this cos forgot how to make Alphas.

Never could get my head around them - much unlike bumps maps though.

[bigez954]

Thanks!

[pnelsonarts]

awesome! thanks

[koiheankur]

i owe you won for this thank you

[PolyNurb]

Forgot to mention also that Maya will automatically recognize the embedded alpha channel in an image format such as targa that supports a 32 bit image.

[PolyNurb]

vulkein, yes man good ears. This was about the time I first started doing these tutorials and I wasn't too professional. You can hear my fishtank in some vids and my son Logan in others in the background. I have even looked back on some videos where I had music playing in the background...what I was thinking I dunno. Nope you don't need any program to open the "Channels" tab in Photoshop and create an alpha channel for your image by painting it or filling selections!

[vulkein]

do you have a fish tank in your room or something because I definitely hear one lol anyway, this is an awesome tutorial but isn't there a plug you need in order to do this?

[NoncentsProductions]

Thank you.

[xsxIBMXxsx]

i owe you won for this thank you

[Keyframe3D]

you forgot to unpremultiply alpha - which gets premultiplied with black in this case. Lots of people don't know that - but try to render transparent part close to the edge with grey background, see what happens