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I exported the tree to wavefront OBJ and imported it to poser.

I copy pasted the textures (png files with transparent background) from the software's texture library.

The result looks like a tree made of post cards.

What do I need to tweak on the material settings to make this work?

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/3631/yq7e.jpg

You need a transparency mask to mask out the unwanted bits of your leaf texture. To do that you'll need to plug that mask into the transparency setting and set transparency to 1.

Did it include a transparency map? If not, you'll have to make one yourself I guess.

Bill

I've used it. I like Arbaro and Baum3D better tho ;).

Laurie

Did you also turn transparecny edge to 1? If not, you should.  That'll probably take care of it.

Transparency_edge should be 1 but that won't necessarily take care of it. Plug the transparency map into that as well, or it will do the wrong thing in the other direction (making the leaf fully transparent when viewed edge-wise.)

Or - set Transparency_Falloff to 0, in which case Transparency_Edge becomes irrelevant.

However - the real culprit is usually that the specular channel fires even on transparent things. This was done because the designers of the material room imagined transparency could mean "clear plastic", like a soda bottle. When, instead, you use transparency to mean "nothing here", you must also modulate the specularity so there isn't any. Plug the transparency map into Specular_Value.

If you have any other effect enabled, that, too, may need to be modulated. For example, if there is reflection in the Reflection_Color, this will be a problem. This is one of the reasons I always use the Alternate_Diffuse channel for reflection.