Quote - Hey, Mari-Anne. I did some tests, and was surprised at how Vue 7 is handling transparency regarding alpha planes. Yet, I can thankfully get it to work... :P

First of all, I used tif files (that include the alpha channel) to create alpha planes. Vue 7 didn't load the transparency, as did Vue 6.

So I switched to the Basic Material Editor. The Transparency function showed nothing, whereas Vue 6 would have automatically shown the alpha map image.... Then I clicked the Alpha map box, clicked Use color map, and clicked the little black and white diamond to reverse the transparency (because Vue 7 loaded the transparency in reverse by default).

I'm mentioning the last bit about the little diamond because if you have transmaps in which the black and white areas are the opposite of how Vue reads transparencies, you don't have to edit them in an image program to reverse the black & white; you only need to click that button and voila! it's done! :p

By the way, when I used jpgs to create an alpha plane (1 color map and 1 transparency map), the process was even easier in Vue 7 than when I used the tif files... I loaded the maps in the appropriate boxes, and they showed immediately.

So at least we can still use alpha planes until e-on fully resolves this issue... I must say, I'm relieved. If this feature was fully broken, I would cry. :p

Wow, Angelsinger!  You did it!!  It works - I even got Monsoon's pretty little PNG flowers to work using your method.  What can I say other than Bravo and Many, Many Thanks!