I was thinking if ya want to see how they make flames work in Poser then download some Poser flame meshes.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/?item_id=74383

So I downloaded CHK2033 candle,
how's CHK2033 making the flame transparent with out a black and white alphas ?

does it have png images ??

am sure BB showed how to get the alpha from a png with nodes

but I forgot how (boohoo)

oh it's a node thing .
I can see the nodes in poser but don't really know what I'm looking at.

it's a .jpg ,guess ya can node a .jpg also.

poser can use black and white alphas ,right ?

can poser read photoshop layers ?

the component node is just making it a greyscale image?? nice idea ;-) can you do the same and take it to a displacment node ? (add a math to cut it down a bit ?) off to try that in blender lol could save lots of messing about in gimp

@RK can "node" anything ;-) might not work lol but thats part of the fun (sometimes boucing back an forth from blender[other] to poser can teach you more then sticking in one proggy) dunno if poser can deal with PS images (dont have PS ) jpg's dont have an alpha channel (png's are my fav but tend to be bigger file size then a jpg)

now most of us have 64 bit comps maybe exr will be the next norm ;-) bigger hard drive please lol

Component node extracts the Red, Green or Blue component (0, 1, 2) from a colour image. In this case I'm using only the Red channel, which has more of a 'halo' round the flame than Green and Blue channels; without the comp node you get the average of all 3 channels. ( Or is it the mean? Or the median? )

Here's another use of the comp node: in Photoshop you could combine three separate grayscale images (e.g. specular, bump and displacement) into a single RGB image for ease of management, reduced data footprint or whatever, then once in Poser split the channels using comp nodes and direct those to the relevant root node.

"@RKcan "node" anything ;-) might not work lol but thats part of the fun (sometimes boucing back an forth from blender[other] to poser can teach you more then sticking in one proggy)"

True... but Going from blenders beautiful instant feedback node layout  over to posers clunky system is always a bit of a let down.
http://www.brennanletkeman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Blender-glare-node-setup.jpg

@ cspear nice idea !!! why do I never think of things like that lol ;-) will have to have a practise if I get stuck watch out a yell for help

@wolf nice set of nodes have to get my glasses on and brain in gear to study that a bit rofl poser's pretty good but but blenders cycles(with a good gpu) beats the pants of most proggys