Rendered raw backgrounds

[bubba]

When I render to file a choreography that I have not touched except for placing a model in it, I get a different background color depending upon the file type I have chosen.

 

Tga get me gray; mov gets black and jpeg is green

 

Any one know why?

[NancyGormezano]

When I render to file a choreography that I have not touched except for placing a model in it, I get a different background color depending upon the file type I have chosen.

 

Tga get me gray; mov gets black and jpeg is green

 

Any one know why?

 

What are your render settings, besides file type? what version A:M? Alpha channel on/off? Is this the default chor, then background should be blue. Is this for 1 frame? Does this only happen with 1 model?

[bubba]

I am using v16rc1 on a MacPro (10.6.6) I am rendering D1-NTSC and I am only rendering to file one frame. For tga the background is gray for render to file from either the choreography or model window.

[NancyGormezano]

When I render to file a choreography that I have not touched except for placing a model in it

 

 

Need more info, it would help to answer the questions:

 

1) did you try with just rendering the default chor ? without your model in it?

 

2) Did you change the background color?

 

3) Are you doing a final render? Are you rendering with multipass on? or Off?

 

If I render D1 NTSC (16rc01 32, PC), the default chor to tga (final 2 pass multipass or final no pass), I get a blue (default color) background.

 

So what does your chor look like? Post a screen capture or the rendered image for the chor that is giving you trouble.

[bubba]

No I did not try to render the chor before adding the model. Background color set at default. I just use the "simple" render settings. It seems to always default to "Custom"

 

 

Warhawk0.tga

 

Warhawk2.mov

[robcat2075]

I just use the "simple" render settings. It seems to always default to "Custom"

 

Turn on "Advanced" and use advanced always so you can see what you are doing.

 

 

your tga render has an alpha channel. When you render to TGA, the alpha buffer (an "advanced" setting) is on by default. An alpha channel allows something other than the background color to show through instead.

 

 

 

Turn that off and you should get your set background color. If you render from the camera view that is "sky" blue by default. If you render from some non-camera view that will be the interface background color which is a dark blue by default.

 

 

JPG doesn't support alpha channel.

 

 

Quicktime (MOV) may or may not include an alpha channel depending on what codec you choose. "Animation" codec includes an alpha channel. "Animation" produces large files, dont' use it unless you have a reason to need it.

 

Unless you plan to use your image in a compositing app you don't need an alpha channel.

[John Bigboote]

If that is the default choreography, it looks like you may be rendering from an alternate viewpoint other than thru the camera (1) that changes a lot of settings.