Feature request: PNG screenshots w/alpha layer
by Joshua Dallman · in Artist Corner · 04/06/2005 (12:34 pm) · 0 replies
Definitely a "fluff" feature but I wanted to suggest it anyway (or if I'm overlooking something that already does this, please chime in -- I haven't explored ShowTool completely).
It would be nice to be able to take snapshots from within ShowTool pro and have the gray background be an alpha transparency layer and have the screenshots saved in a directory as PNG's w/alpha so only the 3d object is showing with nice clean borders.
This would be useful for both marketing purposes AND for using the tool to build 2d sprites from 3d DTS graphics w/o having to go to the source Max or whatever file to do so, and without having to punch out the background color inside PhotoShop once the screenshot is taken.
Just a suggestion of something I'd love to see and would find very useful.
It would be nice to be able to take snapshots from within ShowTool pro and have the gray background be an alpha transparency layer and have the screenshots saved in a directory as PNG's w/alpha so only the 3d object is showing with nice clean borders.
This would be useful for both marketing purposes AND for using the tool to build 2d sprites from 3d DTS graphics w/o having to go to the source Max or whatever file to do so, and without having to punch out the background color inside PhotoShop once the screenshot is taken.
Just a suggestion of something I'd love to see and would find very useful.
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