Ullis Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 I am working on a project of molecules and the figure is supposed to have a C in his forhead. I have made a decal with an alpha channel in photoshop and it looks fine with the progressive render but in final a lot of non desired spots comes up. What have I missed? Happy for any suggestions, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted June 26, 2009 Hash Fellow Share Posted June 26, 2009 first, try reapplying it. delete it entirely, save, reload then apply it again. It also looks like you've got a halo on that decal. In the tuts link in my sig there's a tut on making decals without halos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 That's a very cute molecule! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ullis Posted June 26, 2009 Author Share Posted June 26, 2009 Thanks for looking into my problem, but I have reloaded and reapplied so many times with more or less worse result. I feel so stupid by now....I know it can be done but somehow I fail... Robert it is your tutorial that I have followed, you make excellent tutorials. I skipped the last part about the flaming pear download though, I felt uncertain about what to download and what was free and if I had to make any committments, purchases etc. But I don´t like the halo either -could that be the vital part of all the specks? Happy you like my Molecule Man :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 If you can zip up the image, along with your model, and post it to the forum, we may be able to offer more help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted June 27, 2009 Hash Fellow Share Posted June 27, 2009 Thanks for looking into my problem, but I have reloaded and reapplied so many times with more or less worse result. I feel so stupid by now....I know it can be done but somehow I fail... ok... could you post a wireframe of that view? Robert it is your tutorial that I have followed, you make excellent tutorials. I skipped the last part about the flaming pear download though, I felt uncertain about what to download and what was free and if I had to make any committments, purchases etc. But I don´t like the halo either -could that be the vital part of all the specks? http://www.flamingpear.com/download.html download "Free Plugins" you need that "solidify" plugin . A B or C, any will do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyGormezano Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 I am working on a project of molecules and the figure is supposed to have a C in his forhead. I have made a decal with an alpha channel in photoshop and it looks fine with the progressive render but in final a lot of non desired spots comes up. What have I missed? Happy for any suggestions, Ullis - are you using vers 15e or 15f? If 15e - the streaks might be occurring because of the known problem that occurs when a patch is not covered entirely by a decal. A workaround would be to decal the patch(es) with FIRST a background color image (blue), and then apply the "C" decal (or add image to the decal container) with the alpha channel - the streaks will probably go away. If you don't decal the background color first then streaks can sometimes appear. I believe this has been fixed in 15f - but I can't check because there is no 15f for the CD. I am also assuming the transparent area of your image with the alpha channel is 100% transparent and doesn't have residual "flecks". The halo area is a different problem. In this case - it can probably be taken care of if you create your "C" alpha image in photoshop with a background layer that is the same color as the "C" (black?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ullis Posted June 27, 2009 Author Share Posted June 27, 2009 Thanks all of you for your help - when I changed to version f it was like a magical wand, no more streaks or spots. Now I will go for the halo effect... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_T Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 Nancy thanks so much. I was going crazy with my decals since I have 15E and couldn't figure the issue. Found this thread and your suggestion for decal over decal is great and appears to be working. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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