Hey guys,

I'm in the middle of making a couple of corrections to a hair I'm assigned to.  I actually do the DS mats and know how to do the "hide"/"show" mats without disrupting the diffuse, ambient, etc etc... just to move the opacity dials.

Poser, however, is a bit different.  I know that if I either unattach the trans map and dial transparency & transparency edge to 1.0000, and transparency fall off to 0.00000, or attach a black block as the transmap in place of the normal transmap, it'll hide the part you want.

However, after making the mat file and deleting everything except the transparency calls, and the "Image" "Transparency Map" part, it deletes the diffuse and all that part but inputs the transparency settings.

Is there a way I can have a Poser mat to ignore everything except the transparency parts?

Here's my idea.  I want to just "hide" and "show" a part of the hair without disrupting the hair mat, this way if a user has the hair as blonde, and he/she clicks "hide" and changes his/her mind and clicks "show", the hair's still blonde.  I can do this in DS but if I can't do the "show" in Poser, then having a "show" in DS only will upset Poser users 'cause it doesn't work for them.

Thanks in advance for all the help!

...wolfie