Just fooling around, made this with a cylinder and a transmap. Never thought about creating objects with them before. Something I will tuck away for a rainy night to experiment with. AgentSmith

Yup, you can have a ton of fun with alpha pics.

I'd like to have tons of fun with this too, there's just one thing......how do you do that ? Catlin

What is a transmap?

It's a black-and-white (grayscale) image appied in a texture channel to an object, where the blacker the value, the more transparent, and the whiter the value, the more opaque. Or vice-versa, you can flip the values from within bryce, which is cool. Many of the stock Bryce trees (non tree-lab) use this method to remain on the 1-polygon level.

OH.

Since everyone is taking about, or trying to make leaves, here is one I made earlier. It is a photograph of a leaf together with the black and white wrapped round a half sphere. It's not brilliant but it's a start. Must play more with these transmap thingys.

This is really good, is anyone going todo a tutorial on this? I really have no clue what your all talking about:(.

Follow steps 1 to 4, and then click ok. The image will appear in Bryce, open "Edit Materials" and click add. You can then put this material on whatever shape you like, try it on various shapes, like circle or cone and see what happens. Hope this helps Colette, any questions drop me a note. Catlin

Here's the transmap I used. Feel free to use. AgentSmith

Basic settings. AgentSmith

Thanks guys! I understand a lot better with visuals.:))))

Thanks for the info. Have seen abstract stuff done on other sites and transmaps look like the way to go.

I've also used transmaps to make soft shadows in bryce 4.