I downloaded a cute pair of cut-off jeans for P4 female, but when I load them into Bryce4, I can't get the transparencies to work. Any help would be appreciated.

Thats normal in bryce! to make it work: select the jeans,click M for the matlab, on the rightside there is the texturesource window. click on P for picture and than the texturesourcebutton. 3 windows will arear, in the middle window with the "load" load your transmap.leave the window with ok and in the matlab aktivate the transparencybutton for the first texturechannel.

In the Materials Lab, select the small arrow at the top of the screen to open the Shading Mode menu, Select Blend Transperancy. In the OPTICS section of the Material Lab, check the 2nd dot next to transperancy and set the component to picture(Click the "P"), import your transmaps into the Picture Editor, load your map into the first box, then click copy, goto the 2nd window(where bump maps go) and click paste, click ok to delete current selection. Click the Exit checkmark and return to the Materials Lab. This process will have to be repeated for each body part the tansperancy map is applied to.

Wow...that was fast...thanks! I knew it was something like that. :-)