Make trees semi-transparent

kkelley this feature is currently not provided by Enscape but already on our agenda.

fully agree! some components, like trees should be able to transfer to semi-transparent in stead of blocking the view when they are too close to the camera

One trick we sometimes use is to render the scene with trees turned off, then render again with them on. Then you can layer the two images in Photoshop and adjust the opacity to suit. That wouldn't quite get you the variable transparency you are talking about, but I suppose you could do a series of renders, one with background trees only, one with mid-ground trees, and one with foreground trees.

Quote from kkelley

Is it possible for trees to appear semi-transparent in Enscape renderings?

Do you mean a transluzent effect - lighting from one side is visible at the other? It's on my list to test. I found here that there should be something like this effect available:

https://enscape3d.com/knowledgebase/sketchup/

The keyword "leaf" could help.

EDIT: tested at Rhino and I don't see a transluzent effect too.

Transluzent effects works, only not like expected. It looks more like frosted glass plus an artificial light. Here an example of a curtain - simple diffuse, simple transparent (5%) and transparent (5%) together with name "leaf".

For trees the effect is quite strong - see example. It's strong affected by the sun light.

Finally I tested it at the interior with enabled sun. I wished the nice GI effect from the diffuse material would be added to the "leaf" effects without to much artifical light.

The "leaf" keyword enables subsurface scattering approximation for vegetation. It's not designed to be combined with semi-transparent rendering - once you add transparency to the material the keyword won't have any effect.

However as far as I understood kkelley 's initial post, the request was to add a rendering setting that allows to display trees completely semitransparent for architectural renderings (probably to avoid covering too much of the building itself). So these are 2 completely different things.

OK, I will start an own thread.

Danke.

The only way I've been able to do this now is to make two rendering images, one with the trees and one without; then overlay with lowered opacity in photoshop to create the look you seem to be after.