How to make transparent alfa mask texture - SU?

jarynzlesa

I couldn't find tutorial how to make transparent alfa mask texture.

Does anybody know where I could find it, If exist?

Example textures.

Tree

tree_alpha

Gaieus

Hi jarynzlesa,

That png is already transparent. Do you mean how to make that one or how to make the alpha? Or actually, how to start from scratch (from a photo you take)?

andybot

Are you looking to make a separate image file with the alpha layer? In Photoshop - you would go to "layer -- layer mask -- from transparency" This way you get an new alpha channel that you can save into a new image. I can explain further if that's what you're looking for.

jarynzlesa

Sorry for misunderstanding. This is my fault. Problem solved.
I'm idiot.

Gaieus

So what exactly was that problem?

jarynzlesa

I didn't create layer mask.
Thank you for comments .

without layer mask

problem_solved

d12dozr

You can hide the outside edges to make the 'bounding box' invisible...

jarynzlesa

Don't know what 'bounding box' is but I got rid of those edges (erase + shift).
Thanks for advice .

Works

d12dozr

That's what I meant A little faster way to hide those lines is to double click the face so the face and edges are selected, then shift-click the face once to DE-select just the face(this leaves all the edges selected). Then hide the edges all at once -- I have 'hide' set as a keyboard shortcut, or right click > Hide.
To be precise, a bounding box is the dotted gray lines that surround a group or component when its open for editing, or the blue lines that appear when a group or component is selected.

Your plant looks great!

rspierenburg

I usually have a 'hidden' layer setup by default, and place all those boundary lines on that and just turn it off.