I am trying to setup a scene where I require some of my Daz figure imports from Poser to be transparent to a varying degree. In other words, I need to turn my imported figures into a hollow image without losing the figure detail. Such as a scene where one figure is looking THROUGH another figure and you can see some of what is behind them like a ghost or hologram. You will lose some detail of course with transparency but I want the figure to be clearly identifiable.

So, I have tried playing around with the materials in the "advanced material editor" when looking at the skin textures for the figures. But I can't seem to figure out if there is any way to do this because adjusting the "transparency" and "translucency" for them does not seem to give the effect I am after. I don't have any trouble of course working with Vue materials and adjusting their transparency, but making a figure's materials a certain degree transparent for the whole figure to be seen through is eluding me.

Has anyone done this or does anyone have any thoughts or advice on it?

Thanks.

Jeff

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