Using transparent images in Unity

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I am trying to make a prefab that is basically a image. To do this, i have made a cube and put on it an image i have. But i have a problem =/

My image have transparent background, but in Unity, it simply doesn’t have. When i put the image on the desktop OR open it on any image editor, it appears as it were to be, transparent. But when i import it to Unity, it’s background automatically change to black, and the transparency doesn’t exists anymore. I have put a transparency shader, but it still doesn’t show the transparency, but instead, a black background.

This is really annoying me, and i am almost finishing a game. I don’t have much time left to finish this, otherwise i will mess up with all my work, and this is the ONLY problem i have. Can someone help me? Like, NOW?

Is it a jpeg? Those only have a fake transparency trick, so aren't really transparent as far as Unity (any game engine) is concerned.

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Change your material rendering mode to cutout, fade, or transparent and it will work.

At the end of the OPs second paragraph, they mention using a transparent shader. Shader? What? Above the Rendering Mode dropdown, it says "StandardShader." If you click that drop-down, it has options for more, some of which are transparent (or cut-out, etc... .) Those are real shaders. StandardShader is more like a Unity-provided wizard, that picks/builds the appropriate shader from the rest of the list, based on your settings. (Then, to be sure, the Q is 6 months old and marked time-sensitive, so they've probably solved it by now.)

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