Here is what I did . Lots of one polygon planes mapped with a leaf texture . When I apply the tex and trans maps in the Material Manager everything seems allright but in the render the trans maps have no effect.

The trans maps are pure black and white and I tried jpg and bmp format. Maps work fine in Cinema and Poser.

the images shows my settings and the resut.

many thanks
Karsten
-kelc-

you have blend transparency on? that little downwards triangle from the top middle of the mat screen? drac

Hello draculaz , yeap that was the problem ! Thank you very much for your quick response - you saved me really a lot of hair I was going to tear out ;).

:)

Drac is old and wisevery old and wisevery, very old and wisehes so old he needs a special crutch to hold his jowls up when he walks. Hes very, very, very old and wise;)))

and fat.

.... which I think is American slang for really rather cool and trendy? Maybe I'm mistaken.

Phil, your thinking of "phat". Which could also stand for "Pretty Hot And Tempting". Which would explain why he (Drac) wants to have everyone's babies.

I've got children older than Drac..;) guess that makes me..uh..;)

An older than old phat meister? He's always running around in clacky slippers and pregnant eating pickles and sipping warm milk, Drac is.

ROFLMAO, what a visual!

..and one I coulda done without..;)

Maybe it's the pickles that made his voice so evil :-P either that or he burned his chords on the warm milk...