POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Alpha and background : Re: Alpha and background Server Time
30 Jul 2024 20:17:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Alpha and background  
From: stbenge
Date: 28 May 2008 18:39:56
Message: <483ddf3c$1@news.povray.org>
Lilith wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2008 22:20:58 +0100, Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom>
> wrote:
>> e.g for a black background
>>
>> background { color rgb <0.000,0.000,0.000> }
> 
> I'm not sure you understand.  I need the background to ultimately be
> transparent in the rendered PNG file.
> 

Stephen's suggestion won't work if you are using the beta version of 
POV-Ray. You will have to explicitly add transparency to the background, 
like so:

background{ rgb 0 transmit 1}

Sam


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