Latest Enscape build released 10/26- I can no longer export transparent background PNG’s with the synchronization camera in SketchUp OR the Orthographic projection mode within Enscape. I can set the Fog and get the alpha channel to export correctly if I disable the camera sync button in SketchUp and if I don’t use the Orthographic view in Enscape.
The Fog setting in this build now greys out with the required camera settings noted above and is not adjustable as it was previously, where I’d set fog to 1% in order to get the alpha channel PNG to export correctly. I can adjust fog normally with a different projection mode but it resets to zero when choosing the camera views I need.
Opened a previous file where I know I was able to export with an aplha channel and it works. But cannot get it to work on new SketchUp files, even using the same visual setting preset.
I started a new SketchUp file from scratch. Made a simple cube & set up ortho views as I need.
If there is “glass” material anywhere in the model (even off-camera), the alpha channel will work. Tested by painting the cube 1/2 color and 1/2 glass and one with only color. Only the model with glass present rendered with an alpha channel.
Was about to reply the same. Will have to hide glass somewhere off-screen somewhere (maybe a hidden object?) in the meantime, which is really frustrating (I’ll inevitably forget).
Just tested a bunch of old releases all the way back to 3.5.1+109642 and the issue was still present. I won’t go any further, as that’s all the way back to June this year and at that point I’m losing a lot of updates and misc. bugfixes.
Correct, Orthographic projection requires a transparent material to be somewhere in the model for alpha channel to correctly render. Is there an ETA on V4.0 release or perhaps will this be added to a beta release…soon?
