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[CoriDavis]

Both is set up fine, I used the same picture for the Diffuse and the Transparent, so yes, they are the same.  I even used the new frond picture and I UV'd it, but it's still black and white with the example ball in the corner exactly how I want it.

[davdud101]

don't you set diffuse 0, or am I mistaken?

[kreator]

Have you rendered the image?..... It won`t show until you actually render the scene.

[davdud101]

Oh yeah, that's a major part of it. Rendering.

[CoriDavis]

aww... you mean I have to render it? great...  will it be transparent in the rendered movie?

[davdud101]

it should be.

[CoriDavis]

Yes! the render worked! I was afraid to do it seeing how I kind of ruined my file trying to render that walking bird tutorial.  I have plenty of backups for this file, so I have plenty of tries to get it right and I can just copy more if I need to.

but can anyone tell me specifically each step of rendering a movie? the manual just says "you can do this with this tool..." and gives no further info. I don't want to mess this up.

[davdud101]

Wait, so you don't know how to render?

[CoriDavis]

I tried to follow the rendering instructions on the tutorial, I guess I didn't select the right thing or something, and it messed it up. now when I try to render it again, I get this message... wait a minute... it's working!!! ok, that's cool and strange at the same time, I wonder what I did wrong the first time.

Anyway, here's what the video looks like. why is it so.. Pixel-ey and nasty-smudgey? I guess I could choose a different setting to fix it
http://tinypic.com/r/5cdjkx/4

[davdud101]

Wait, i saw no trees in this but whatever... It's smudgy probably not because of the renderer, but because it has to compress the file before saving it, which reduces the video quality.

[CoriDavis]

that's not my current file, that was from the tutorial, I used it as an example. i'll post my tree when it's finished. you can see the rest of my progress in this board, http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php?topic=3553.0 the tree is for scenery

[CoriDavis]

Here is my rendered tree!

[davdud101]

Wow, the tree looks very nice!

[CoriDavis]

thanks, it has a billion polys though. I didn't even subdivide except in the top, even then, I deleted the lines to make alternating squares to make peak-faces for those spikes.

[davdud101]

Seems like it could been done with a lot less polys.... Just a tree? couldn't have taken that many polys. How long was the render time?