New feature "Mask Background"

[jensverwiebe]

Hi
Today i added a new feature to the renderview: you can now switch the view to be alpha stamped with an grid background.

This is only for judging the view ! One has still either to export with alpha or set use_alpha on export.

Comments are welcome ...

Jens

[jensverwiebe]

As per request changed the naming to "Show Alpha".


Jens

[zsolnai]

Perfect, thank you Jens.

[jensverwiebe]

I extender the alpha also to clipboard if "Show Alpha" is active, kinda WYSIWYG, clipboard == viewer.
The clipboard icon also reflects the state, but is unfortunately rather small on certain resolutions:

clipboard_icons.jpg (10.59 KiB) Viewed 506 times

Some applications allow "import from clipboard", so this way the feature may be most useful.

Jens

[A-man]

The holes inside the cube look slightly darker than the transparent environment. Is that because the alpha mask is not 100% clear? Or am I seeing things?

[jensverwiebe]

The holes inside the cube look slightly darker than the transparent environment. Is that because the alpha mask is not 100% clear? Or am I seeing things?

;P

That example texture used was not a true alphamap but from the vegetation lib, so the leaf does not stamp 100%, you saw it right

Jens

[jensverwiebe]

Hi
I made a little workflow example to learn how clipboard can be used w/wo alpha.

http://www.jensverwiebe.de/temp/clipboard_workflow.mov

EDIT: hmm, looks as alpha is ignored on windows atm, looking for a fix for win clipboard.

Jens

[Carbonflux]

Just when we thought we were running out of new gui features!

Nice work Jens