Prayers for you and for Tigger from Mr Biggles and me, and our 10 furbabies and one shellbaby. I am glad the prognosis looks like being favourable, but we will keep you in our prayers.  some kitties are so special and precious, and losing them is like having half your heart torn out. May Tigger have many more years of health and happiness.

that sounds fun.  I confess I haven't found my way round all of windows 7 yet and still mourn my XP...

Thanks all, I'm being incredibly stupid this weekend, it's 90degrees F plus here and it's frying my braincell.... I appreciate everyone's patience

but you need a paint program to save it in, don't you? otherwise how can you get from taking screen shot to being able to browse it  somewhere where it's saved until you can get on the net, especially as I don't use the net on that machine, only on my laptop.  There is at least a print screen button on that computer, windows 7 might print screen but not when the damn button is on F11 and it obviously does the full screen mode of F11, with no apparent way to get to print screen without an extra program.  I suppose I could close poser after printing screen to put it into PSP, it's just that poser takes several minutes to open... yes, I get impatient. 

Well, it's my turn to use the computer tomorrow, so I'll have a look at all these transparencies...

Lol, I'll have to see if I can photograph the screen.  To do screen capture I need somewhere to put the picture and I have trouble running poser and a paint program at the same time... one or both tend to crash. 

Have a great time sailing!

ok, thanks, I'll check for the transparency map....  I've used them on clothes and accessories before. this is a lot scarier than the advanced settings.  Which I need to learn to use, I guess...

The skin I'm using is a different one because the default [which also had no eyebrows] didn't look right either... but I initially had applied the default texture through pose.  I don't have an image from the advanced material room because I wasn't using it.  I didn't think I ought to have to if I'm using provided textures.  It all showed the proper textures in the material room, including the bump maps.  The eyelashes had NO texture at all when I clicked them default or no, so I picked them out of the browse. 

I didn't even know I had to do anything with a transparency setting. 

I wouldn't even know how to connect the transparency map to the transparency [there's a transparency?]  let alone what to turn to 0.  This is tinkering in that scary advanced thingy, like with glass, right?  why are eyelashes anything to do with being transparent? Here's what I've been working on [and I'm also disappointed by the skin which looked much more lifelike on the promo picture]

I am amazed by the virtuosity of so many clever people, especially bagginsbill [yes, I am sweet-talking you].  I look forward to the shader set going on sale, and I really want to buy it.  I have two more books coming out soon and hopefully oodles of royalties.... well, some, anyway...

I dunno if I'm scared to pieces at fiddling with this stuff or whether I'm all excited... fascinating thread, thanks for the link to it, bagginsbill. 

Wonderful!  I do appreciate all the kind people who understand how this works who are ready to give tips

Oh wow, thank you for those links, and for putting up such fun freestuff; and especially for the settings suggestions because I'm at the WTF?!!! stage with them.... I'll need to install the screenshot software on the computer I use for graphics, hadn't thought of it! I'm faffing around in the dark here, I'll have to print some pages of the manual out I guess!  Can't assimilate information I read on screen, too old I suppose...

Hey, I got it, I managed to make it transparent in the advanced settings! It ain't anything to shout about, but the more I experiment the more I'll learn. I turned off the IBL as well.

Ok, I'm a little disappointed with the glass, which isn't as transparent as I'd like it.   this is the share CG freebie 'Green Vase' which is the only bit of glassware I currently have...Y

Gimme a chance... I need to unzip something made of glass now to play with!  I'll have half an hour free time in the morning before I have to get mother up and feed her.

I also read on your page about using at least 6 bounces for glass for internal reflections [that part I did pass in Physics] so I shall be happily playing with glass now...