Interesting, Phil. Can you post a pic of the problem? The one above doesn't really make sense to me, as someone who doesn't know what the desired effect is suppose to be... Have you tried inverting the transparency filter? if you import the textured model as a PZ3, the trans. will load properly, but if ou import as .OBJ and load the textures separately, Vue will read the trans. maps backwards; Poser and Vue use black and white oppositely, so if you try to change the trans. filter to "invert", located in the "Other Filters" section of the filter library, maybe that will work...and aso try changing the Y scale to -1.000. otherwise, I don't know--- the trans maps from Poser always work fine for me, without having to do all this. If you still have a problem, you need to give us as much technical info as possible, because, assuming your trans textures are done properly, Vue shouldn't be having a problem. and, again, the black has to be pure black, and the white has to be pure white. RGB 255,255,255 for the white, and RGB 0,0,0 for the black.