Hmmm...not with me!

Hello,

after trying some tutorials to make my own clothing tex I found out that I can fill Mikes Tanktop (from his bodysuit for example) with every pattern texture you could wish...buuuuut:
when I try to make a trans pattern with black ellipses or rectangles (just playing around)and loading them as a
trans Map (with the other parts white)...nothing happens.
I now it has to be something I do wrong, but I don't know
why???
Thank you for your patience...

Yep, black = transparent... Which Poser version do you have, 4 or 5? In Poser 4, did you set the "transparency max" slider to 100%? If you have Poser 5, maybe you can take a screen shot of the Material Room with your settings? Lots of settings there that can go wrong...

I have Poser Pro Pack and yes I put the transparency max to 100 buuuuut: the whole tanktop will get transparent then!

Transparency maps only works when you render. It will work the same way as hair.

Thank you shadowcat but I knew that :) But in the meantime I found out that the whole mess is probably due to some errors with the UV- or Tex map. Because if I get something to see it sits totally wrong and distorted!!! I don't know why, I made an .obj from the bodysuit, loaded it in the UV-Mapper, made texture maps...voila...hmmmm... (It seems the Poser gods are NOT with me right know...) But still, thanks for your patience! Dani

SOmething simple: The transparency map needs to be loaded as the "Transparency Map" and not the "Texture Map".

Are you sure your black is truly BLACK? It can be hard to see if a colour is totally black, but Poser knows it. But what I don't understand is why the "holes" doesn't show at all :o/ I guess I'm as puzzled as you are after all... Can you post a screenshot of the Materials setting?

Thank you Spanki but I already knew that :) But nevertheless I tried all different variations I could imagine... Thank you ernyoka1, but I have no proggie for screenshots but the trans max was 100 (I made double sure of that!) And I proofed the black but it is "truly black".... Somehow I start to think there is nothing wrong with the transmap but with poser not mapping her right around the Tanktop... Dani

render it! then see what happens! Ron

Ummm...I did render it...often! You can see one of the rendered pics above... But still, thanks! big sigh Dani

I think one of the problems is that the trans map is for the shirt ONLY and not the entire cat suit. Try using the template for the catsuit and putting the mapping for the t-shirt onto that. make sure all the other parts are black (IE, the arms, legs, etc) By the way, if you are on a PC you can take a screen shot using the Print Screen button (Mine's by the number pad on the right side) and going into Photoshop or Paint Shop pro, creating a new image and pasting the screenshot into the new document.

ummm....yeah...forgot about me....maybe I should better go to bed :) The Solution to this was sooo simple! I read about it before...I knew it...I just forgot: Just make your map and save as as your new .obj...basta... Then you can use every tex map...claps her forehead Thank you all guys and gals Without you I would have stopped with Poser long ago. And look which fun I had missing....looks at her gray hair Good night all Dani

Don't forget to make a copy of your catsuit.cr2 file and change the pointers to newcatsuit.obj. That way, you can use the old catsuit and your remapped catsuit and have them both poseable. Cheers!

...will do! Thanks!!! Dani