How to render 3d for a sprite?

[Dave Black]

First, you'l need to disable AA so that your alpha channel is clean.

You'll probably need to setup a camera system with an isometric perpective. Try to keep your lighting consistant as well.

The best way to do all this, is to setup a scene that has all the cameras, lighting, settings, render aspects, etc., and save it off. That way, you can just drop your model/animation into the scene(or visa versa) and hit the render button.

-3DZ

:D

[Steve Green]

I wouldn't disable AA in the render dialog, you can turn off anti-alias against background in preferences/rendering.

Depending on the size of the sprites, I would also experiment with the different filtering options, the default Area filter is probably a little soft and you may lose some detail in the sprites.

What you could also look at (if you are rendering to a palette image) is to set up a source palette in a gif with magenta as colour 0, then specify that when you render to a flic, with a bright magenta for your background.

This would give you a palettised sprite with a colour 0 that can be used as transparent.

- Steve

[Dave Black]

Thanks, Steve, that was what I was trying to say. I did'nt mean to completely disable AA, but to do so against the BG. Sorry for the confusion.

-3DZ

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