I am working on a top for V4, it has 3 mat zone, Chest, Sleeves and wrist.

Here is the issue and question I set the sleeves and wrists to transparency 100% and they still show as an outline when rendering in firefly. I know I can create a TransMap to fix this, but I want to keep the file size down. Is there a way I can fix this?

Using Poser 7 SR3 XP Pro

Ok, this is as far as my knowledge go's, so if I am wrong let some one corect me.

As far as I know, with transparency FireFly say's, its still there but you can see throu it.
When its still there, it hase a edge and drops shadows.

With a transmap FireFly say's, It is not there, what is not there it can not be rendered.

But again, this is all I know.
Maybe you can do something with nodes, I leave that to others.

NYguy, have you zeroed out the transparency falloff and edge functions?  Jan

With P6, and I believe P7, you have to make sure that Transparancy Fall off is set to 0. (it's the third down transparancy setting in the material room...if I have the name wrong..going by faulty brain cells here at work)

I know in P6, it is set by default to like 0.6 or something like that. This gives you the "ghost" outline of the transparent items when you don't want them.

Yes, definitely set the transparency fall off and edge to zero.  Your outline will complete disappear when rendered.

D'oh! I feel like a complete idiot, should have know that was what was causing my issues!

Don't feel bad, I forget about them about half the time.....and then sit there yelling at the computer.

Nyguy, I join you in that feeling.

..."slaps forehead"...

Oh well, I see it positive.....my knowledge is keeping expanding :biggrin:

It happens to the best of us.  Chalk it up to a learning experience.

Just an additional snippet.

If transparency and edge transparency are the same, there is no fall-off -- so the fall-off setting has no effect whatsoever.

I know you got it fixed, but just to add - make sure that specular is completely zeroed on any 100% transparent parts. If not, you'll get "ghosting".

I tried it last night and works fine. I am going to have to remodel the shirt a little due to issues with the sleeves area not correctly aligning with V4.