Hello - yes it is correct - you can see a transparency only when the image is rendered ... There might be programms available that replace the *.rsr (this is the file where the image is stored) with another image. I normally store viewable transparencies via a one-sided textbox that includes my rendered image of the transparency-item as a texture ... After that I replace the origin *.rsr with the *.rsr of the then-stored one-sided box. Hope you could follow me - if not ... just mail me schlabber@yourwap.com