Background Color Help

[mfortunato]

Hi All -

 

I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem. In my camera properties, I set the background color (in this case to white). When I click the onscreen render button, the background is white. When I render my final animation, the background is black. I tried changing the bg color to all kinds of crazy colors. Same exact results. I'm sure I'm just missing a setting somewhere. What setting am I missing?

 

Thanks.

- Michael

[C-grid]

When you're target-render-format supports transparency(alpha-channel) a new option appears in the camera>>output options>>buffers>>alpha.

Choosing such a format will automaticly set alpha ON, set this to OFF when you want the chor-background rendered in the still.

 

Niels

[mfortunato]

Beauty! Thanks, Niels. I checked the Camera in the choreography and the alpha option wasn't there. However, I checked the actual camera object and changed the alpha to "off". Bingo! It worked like a charm.

 

Thanks so much for the quick reply.

 

- Michael

[elliotclem1]

I think i have a similar related problem because when i render my picture it is brighter than what it should be. Why is this?

[mfortunato]

Hi Elliot -

 

Without seeing images or learning more about your setup, it will be nearly impossible to comment on. Post some images of your scene setup (camera settings and render settings) as well as images of the screen render vs. final render. Hopefully myself or someone else on these forums can help you.

 

- Michael