Ok, first I must say, this is a suggestion, not a criticism :o) You provide us with always nicer and complicated hair with a lot of material poses for us to play with and that's nice. But could you include a material pose with absolutely no transparency to use during the pose process so we can really see the hair we're desperatly trying to pose ? Well, I know, we can go in the material setting and do it ourselves but well, don't know, maybe the summer, I'm getting lazy ;o) J-L PS : with a big thanks for the wonderful things you do :o)

you can do it by yourself very easy and without changing something in the materials.select the hair, got to view;element and select carton!sorry , i have the german poser and my menues have different names. but this way you can see every movement but it renders with all transparancies. its in the fifth row from left

An easy way to do it is to choose "Materials" in the Render Menu and set the Transparency Max to 0. That will make the hair prop visible when you pose and morph the hair. Just don't forget to set it back again before you render ;-)

I'll get on to it with mine right now and post it in the free stuff section in the morning - thanks for the suggestion :)

Great Tip, Pervers. I knew that there was a way to do that, and I was looking just this morning. Thanks, -Gary

That is a great idea for a MAT pose setting, and I shall add it to my list of update work I am doing for UltraSalon too :) Keep the good suggestions coming :)

Got them finished so thought I'd up them tonight, hope they come in handy, thanks for the idea!

Yeah, but Pervers is right, setting the display to "cartoon" is the easiest...... Scarab

That is....display>element>cartoon..... Scarab

Here is another method. :-) I think the 'Python script' included in the PPP is very usuful for that kind purpose. Following is my 'TransHair display on/off switching' script. This script switches the 'TransparencyMax value'( 100% or 0%) of the Hair when you press a 'script button'. #=============================================== #TransMaxSW.py by Kozaburo #=============================================== #Swich a TransparencyMax value 100% & 0% import poser scene = poser.Scene() actor = scene.CurrentActor() materials = actor.Materials() material=materials[0] status = material.TransparencyMax() if (status == 1): status = 0 else: status = 1 for material in materials: material.SetTransparencyMax(status) #=============================================== --- Kozaburo

Thanks to you all for your answers :o) especially Alla and Mehndi because I give them more work and they are not angry ;) and of course Le Mare (Kozaburo) for the script - very, very useful - :o) J-L