Quote - No, you'll see in the last paragraph of my last post, "the transparency map disappeared and was replaced by the texture map. "

*Okay, either way the pics you're showing do not illustrate that. 

Quote - You can see pictures of how all the material zones are set...up above in my posts.  See? 

 

Well no, in fact you're showing pics of a "body" material zone, and a "pants" material zone.  But okay ^^

Quote - ... the preview shows some parts as transparent and some as normal...always different.  Andf my transparency map has a frayed edge on the bottom of the pant legs and a few holes to make the jeans look old, but those frays and holes never show up.  In other words, the zones don't match the maps.

I have rendered the scene several times and after each re-launch of Poser.  It does look different in that the transparency map didn't have any effect at all.  See my latest example?  Where the "body" is semitransparent and the loops, buttons, and legs are normal even with the transparency map?  When I render that, it looks as though there isn't a transparency map at all.  Everything is visible.  So the transparency map is not working at all, but something is making the material zones become semi-transparent at random.  And once in a while, the transparency map disappears and is replaced by the texture map.

I can't get any sense out of what you're saying.  You're saying that setting transparency does not have any effect in one sentence, and then right after that you're saying it becomes semi-transparent.  You're showing pics of how the preview looks but you're talking about how the render looks.  Maybe you'll have better luck with Smith Micro tech support, I don't think I'm able to help you.

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