Texture on geo as a matte

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bobster: Member; 88 posts; Joined: March 2006; Offline

Sept. 24, 2008 1:13 a.m.

So I'm trying to use a projected texture from camera on a grid as a matte object. The texture has an alpha but when used as a matte object it will only use the grid geo as the matte. Is there anyway to use the texture applied to the grid as the matte?


tamte: Member; 8772 posts; Joined: July 2007; Online

Sept. 24, 2008 3:32 a.m.

look at the file
very quick made, but you can get the idea

Attachments:
texture_matte.hip (97.4 KB)

Tomas Slancik
FX Supervisor
Method Studios, NY


bobster: Member; 88 posts; Joined: March 2006; Offline

Sept. 27, 2008 7:33 p.m.

What decompression software does that need? I've never seen that file format before. Is that for linux? Can you compress it for mac or windows?


tamte: Member; 8772 posts; Joined: July 2007; Online

Sept. 28, 2008 6:17 a.m.

bobster
What decompression software does that need? I've never seen that file format before. Is that for linux? Can you compress it for mac or windows?

no compression
it's a regular .hip file you need only houdini to open this
created on H9.5.231, WinXP 32
do you have any problems opening it?

Tomas Slancik
FX Supervisor
Method Studios, NY


bobster: Member; 88 posts; Joined: March 2006; Offline

Sept. 30, 2008 11:51 a.m.

Got it. There was a weird extension added when I tried to download it on my mac. On linux it's good.

The texture is not matting out during render. Only visually in viewport.


tamte: Member; 8772 posts; Joined: July 2007; Online

Oct. 1, 2008 8:22 a.m.

here is the render from that file, i don't know if it's what you want, but it's matting the background objects by texture alpha

Attachments:
texture_matte.jpg (60.1 KB)

Tomas Slancik
FX Supervisor
Method Studios, NY


phillmayer: Member; 12 posts; Joined: Oct. 2010; Offline

Feb. 5, 2016 3:28 p.m.

tamte
look at the file
very quick made, but you can get the idea

That was super helpful, thanks!


skalape: Member; 2 posts; Joined: March 2009; Offline

Sept. 22, 2016 8:24 a.m.

tamte
look at the file
very quick made, but you can get the idea

Thanks a lot Tamte


skalape: Member; 2 posts; Joined: March 2009; Offline

Sept. 22, 2016 3:09 p.m.

Thanks, exactly what I needed.

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