Blue, for those "effectful" shaders you'll want to use your trans map as a mask for the effects as well, using a Blender node. Plug Blender to the channel where your nodes are (usually Alt Diffuse), your trans map to Blender node's Blending plug, put a black color to the plug that represents the black part of your map, and plug what was plugged to Diffuse in the other part of the Blender. Don't forget to also set the transparency to your map.

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