How do I import JPGs or PNGs into my scene?

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• fixmypcmike Posts: 19,565

  September 2014 edited December 1969

  You can either add them in postwork afterwards, or else create a primitive plane and a transmap for the effect (white where the effect is, black elsewhere), then apply the png to the Diffuse channel and the transmap to the opacity channel.
• Keiththegamergeek Posts: 39

  September 2014 edited December 1969

  Please advise as to the procedure, I'm grasping at straws trying to make it work.
• Design Anvil - Razor42 Posts: 1,234

  September 2014 edited December 1969

  If you want to use it in scene in DS.

  1. Create a new primitive
  2. Change it to type: plane make size: 10m
  3. Select plane in viewport change x Rotate in parameters to 90
  4 adjust y rotate to make it perpendicular to your camera view
  5 change to surfaces palette
  6 Add your image to Diffuse Colour channel and possibly ambient colour channel
  7 If you have a black and white alpha map to match apply it to opacity strength channel
  7a if you don't have an oppacity/Transpareny map you will need to create one in an image manipulation program
  7b in image editor open png, add a layer of black behind the image. Convert the explosion to grayscale and add brightness till it is all white. White means visible, black means transparent in a transmap. Save as eg Explosion01Trans and apply to opacity strength channel
  8 Render

  :)