This was genuinely the best $10 I have spent!
I have been messing around with Photobooth for the past few days and I’m genuinely impressed. This has speed up the process of rendering items out by a LOT. This is a game changer and a life saver. With Future lighting existing I can confidently say goodbye to the days of rendering items out in blender.
One of the best features about this plugin is the ability to automate rendering. Alongside the black magic you do to calculate transparency, automation just makes this plugin perfect. The only limitation which I encountered is the fact that you can’t export multiple images at the same time to PNG format. This is most likely on Roblox’s end and out of your control.
This method does work but you have to export each capture one at a time. Regardless it worked out well in the end, since for my use case I would have had to do image processing after exporting from Roblox anyways. So I just sent the image data via localhost to VSCode and compiled the data back into a PNG with the image processed. (If you plan to do any image processing and are coding in Node.js I recommend using the “jimp” npm image processing library.)
When processing the images I applied a more aggressive alpha bleed algorithm to fix some aliasing issues. I honestly didn’t think there was any alpha bleed at first, but after looking at the patch notes I noticed there was one implemented in version 0.2.0?
Please keep in mind that this is an extreme worst case example. Where the image itself is dark on top of a dark background .I understand the decision to minimize the amount of alpha being bleed, as alpha bleed does take up a bit of processing time. In my case the images were downscaled from 1024x1024 to 256x256 and even then it still took a few seconds to process the alpha bleeding. As an alternative for those who are bothered by aliasing you can use this amazing site made by @XAXA to process the alpha bleeding.
TLDR: Really amazing tool 10/10 would recommend. It is genuinely a game changer especially for those who need background transparency and automation. Thank you for all your hard work!