Thanks, Ken-

That works.  

Although I was trying with pict, which _does_ support alpha, and it worked
with the manual save, just not the automatic. Wonder why?

Paul


> From: Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet>
> Organization: TAG
> Newsgroups: povray.macintosh
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:04:05 -0800
> Subject: Re: Alpha channels in batch renders?
> 
> 
> 
> Paul Kuehn wrote:
>> 
>> Question: I know how to turn on alpha channels in the rendering prefs, but
>> they only get saved if I do a "Save As" on the rendered image. The image
>> file that is automatically saved when I render does not contain the alpha
>> channel.
>> 
>> Therefore, when I do a batch rendering, the saved images do not have the
>> alpha channel, even though it was enabled in the settings.
>> 
>> Am I missing something?
> 
> Image format? Not all image formats support the alpha channel. Try it
> with .png and see what happens (if you are not already).
> 
> -- 
> Ken Tyler

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