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How to screenshot a planet from space, with transparent background, including atmospheric effects? Currently atmosphere is not visible where there is transparent background - view screenshots.
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slim oak
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wheat basin
You must save the image in a format that supports transparency such as PNG. PNG's support 256 levels of transparency and this allows for smooth blending into other images. Personally I use the hires tool(Shift+F11) for my transparencies. here is a quick and crude example of a gas giant overlaid over the moon using a image captured with the hires tool.
slim oak
You must save the image in a format that supports transparency such as PNG. PNG'...
I dont have a problem saving transparent images, I have a problem of Auroras or atmosphere not showing beyond the planet surface
Effectively being cutoff by the background transparency
slim oak
You must save the image in a format that supports transparency such as PNG. PNG'...
IN your example, the atmosphere is visible becasue theres an opaque object behind it
wheat basin
I created that composite in Gimp. the gas giant was against space. Aurora's and some atmospheric bloom effects being cutoff are however a limitation of the transparency option.
tired cloud
The atmosphere is transparent, so it has an alpha value of roughly zero. Its color should still be in the RGB channels. If you want to put it in front of some background image, you're going to have to additively blend the RGB foreground with the RGB background, modulated by the foreground's alpha (0 = additive, 1 = no blending)